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Leaf logo for World Forum on Urban ForestsIn 2023 Restore Mass Ave’s success “greening” a busy city artery was recognized by pioneers in urban forestry. For the World Forum on Urban Forests meeting in Washington, the city forestry agency asked Restore Mass Ave to arrange plantings with embassies. So we organized new tree plantings and gave out 8 World Forum Tree Awards at a high-profile event at the Embassy of Italy.

Thus our tree planting and care program started anew after years when road reconstruction it impossible. We should build on this momentum.

District agencies and elected officials have been listening to RMA. We have a trove of knowledge about how public infrastructure projects could save more trees and increase the city’s tree canopy.  We should share what we’ve learned from the 5-year Mass Ave road project (MARP) and from our attempts to retrofit a bare sidewalk with trees, the Dupont Tree Plaza. We need support to have this wider impact.

Your donation helps:

Tree Planting

Many sites along the two miles of Embassy Row need new trees, after years when roadwork blocked new plantings and storms hit old trees.

RMA re-started planting via our World Forum Tree Awards with DC forestry. But we need funds to continue planting at other locations. Even when trees are paid for by others, RMA funds to support prep and followup.

Local Long-Term Care

We renewed outreach to get owners along Mass Ave to care for all trees on and near their properties.

A special challenge is ~50 new street trees the roadbuilders planted as they wrapped up – in time for DC’s hottest summer. Treekeepers resumed trying to save trees at risk. But our tree bags, tools and wagon are old and rusty.

Safeguarding Our Landscape Legacy

We need funds to update the federal preservation guidelines for Embassy Row, so that in future everyone who remodels or builds here sustains this treasured landscape.

Presently the landscape guidance in our book A Grand Avenue Revival is only voluntary, though many owners of these famous buildings comply. A new project with the goal of revising the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District guidelines would secure this legacy for the future.

We added bright red roses in the median islands by Sheridan Circle after the roadway project remodeled the crossings. Your dollars pay for our maintenance of roses and the other plants that the roadbuilders installed.

Trees and Infrastructure

We must compile and share lessons from our five years of involvement saving trees during the Department of Transportation (DDOT) $23 million road construction project here.

Around the city, the DDOT has >$1 billion worth of streetscape projects underway. RMA’s reports and testimony can show how trees could be saved in these projects. We also lack the latest map data of land cover. These should be analysed to learn how tree canopy is changing here.

Our Dupont Tree Plaza now is now funded! The Department of Transportation stormwater office is redesigning it with a different approach than ours. We aim for grants and a strong coalition to assure that the Plaza is built with exemplary green infrastructure and as a true community space.

Education to Expand Our Impact

RMA is volunteer-led. We need more capacity to manage projects and grants.

Nor does RMA have the social media presence needed to communicate with the public, the community, and allies. Our tiny group looks for your donations or in-kind services to achieve the impact and presence we’ve earned in 18 years.

 

Help our ‘green’ movement “dig in” locally; help us share our hard-earned knowledge with our city – even the world!

How YOU can support a greener Embassy Row and city:

  • $ 100 SAPLING Treekeeper tools
  • $ 300 TREE HUGGER New Tree
  • $ 500 EDUCATOR Outreach & Sharing
  • $1,000 ARBORIST Expert Assistance
  • $2,000 URBAN FORESTER Multi-Tree Projects

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John A.C. Umberger

John Umberger Memorial

Friends and family of the late John Umberger may donate to RMA in his name. John was a superb Treekeeper and Associate.

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