Friends of the Urban Forest | planting and caring for trees and garden...

At Friends of the Urban Forest, we connect people to nature and each other by planting and caring for San Francisco’s trees and gardens. That’s probably not news to you, but it is our new mission statement!
We spent the last year assessing our past and present, and thinking about the future, in order to update our mission, vision and values. We’re working hard to realize a city where all people, trees and plants thrive. And we’re explicitly grounding that...

As we start a new year, we'd like to share with you a review of things we've accomplished together. We've been working hard to bring the benefits of the urban forest to the neighborhoods that need and want them most.
The following accomplishments from our last fiscal year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022) show why Friends of the Urban Forest is among the most respected and effective non-profit environmental organizations in the Bay Area....

A personal note by Karla Nagy, Vice President for Operations
Dear Friend,
If you moved to San Francisco from elsewhere, as I did, you might have felt like its plants and trees came out of a Dr. Seuss book. When I arrived here from Cleveland in 1993, I became curious to learn more about San Francisco's fabulous flora. My journey...

Did you know that San Francisco is the third-fastest-warming city in California? Fortunately, there’s a simple solution that can change this trajectory. Trees can cool cities through shade and transpiration — the release of water into the atmosphere...