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On Friday, November 6, 2020, the City of Santa Ana kicked off the tree-planting season and launched a new street tree services planting program to grow and manage the City’s urban forest. Members of the Washington Square Neighborhood Association and Santa Ana Public Works Street Tree Services staff planted the first tree of the program.

The event officially kicks off Public Works’ goal to plant 500 trees by June 2022. To meet this goal, the Public Works Agency collaborated with the California Urban Forests Council and West Coast Arborist and were awarded the “City Forest Renewal” funded through Cal FIRE’s Urban and Community Forestry Program. The grant will ensure funding for the planting of two trees for every one removed to continue the development of our urban forest. In order to reach the goal of 500 trees planted, Public Works staff anticipates planting 350 trees by Spring 2021 and an additional 150 trees in the Spring of 2022.

Public Works will use their Global Positioning System (GPS) tree inventory that identifies the entire City’s Street Trees inventory, as well as the vacant locations where trees have been removed over the past several years. Using the GPS for vacancy locations, City staff collaborated with the 64 Santa Ana Neighborhood Associations to develop a list of planting locations for this first round of planting 200 trees by the end of 2020. The 200 trees will be planted citywide so each City Neighborhood will have a tree or trees planted within their boundaries. We celebrated today in the Washington Square Neighborhood by planting a California Sycamore tree on Freeman Street. Over the next several months, we are excited to continue increasing the tree canopy in all of our neighborhoods by increasing aesthetics, providing welcomed shade, cleaner air and improving our mental and physical health.

More information on the Santa Ana Tree Program is available at www.santa-ana.org/green/TreeProgram.asp or call (714) 647-3380.

Obras Públicas Inicia Programa De Plantación De Árboles

El viernes 6 de noviembre de 2020, la Ciudad de Santa Ana inició la temporada de plantación de árboles y lanzó un nuevo programa para cultivar y administrar el bosque urbano de la Ciudad. Los miembros de la Asociación de Vecindarios de Washington Square y el personal de servicios de árboles de Obras Públicas de la Ciudad de Santa Ana plantaron el primer árbol del programa.

El evento inicia oficialmente el objetivo de Obras Públicas de plantar 500 árboles antes de junio 2022. Para cumplir con este objetivo, la Agencia de Obras Públicas colaboró con el grupo California Urban Forests Council y West Coast Arborist y se les otorgó la “Renovación de bosques de la ciudad” financiada a través de programa Cal FIRE’s Urban and Community Forestry Program. La subvención garantizará el financiamiento para la plantación de dos árboles por cada uno que se quite para continuar el desarrollo de nuestro bosque urbano. Para alcanzar nuestra meta de plantar 500 árboles, el personal prevé plantar 350 árboles para la primavera de 2021 y 150 árboles adicionales en la primavera de 2022.

Obras Públicas utilizará su inventario de árboles del Sistema de Posicionamiento Global (GPS) que identifica todo el inventario de Árboles de la Ciudad, así como las ubicaciones vacías donde se han eliminado los árboles durante los últimos años. Usando el GPS para los lugares vacantes, el personal de la ciudad colaboró con las 64 asociaciones de vecinos de Santa Ana para desarrollar una lista de lugares de plantación para esta primera ronda de plantación de 200 árboles para fines de 2020. Los 200 árboles se plantarán por toda la ciudad para que cada vecindario tenga un árbol o árboles plantados dentro de sus límites. Celebramos en el vecindario de Washington Square plantando un árbol sicomoro en la calle Freeman. Durante los próximos meses, estamos entusiasmados de continuar aumentando los árboles en todos nuestros vecindarios aumentando la estética, brindando sombra bienvenida, aire más limpio y mejorando nuestra salud mental y física.

Más información sobre el Programa de árboles de Santa Ana está disponible en www.santa-ana.org/green/TreeProgram.asp o llame al (714) 647-3380.

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Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

By Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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