In my professional experience as a landscape architect, trees make the biggest and longest lasting impact on public green spaces. If you have been paying attention, I hope you’re concerned with the numerous trees cut down this year at Dunphy Park and MLK Park. In the case of Dunphy, the park plans include planting more trees than were removed, however the MLK site currently has no plans to replant the site after dozens of mature trees were removed.

Sausalito Beautiful has been leading a dialogue with the City and is moving forward with a plan to replant MLK, the single largest piece of open space in Sausalito. With projects like MLK tree Replanting, the Caldeonia Street Tree Replanting and the Downtown Bridgeway Tree Replanting, Sausalito Beautiful is on track to plant more trees this year than have been planted in Sausalito in the last 5 years or longer. Not only does this make Sausalito more beautiful, but directly counteracts climate change and helps achieve the goals outlined in Sausalito’s 2015 Climate Action Plan. You can help Sausalito Beautiful and help your community by supporting these projects!

In case you want to know more about the benefits of trees, look here, here and here for more information!