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Events
Upcoming Events
RMA’s Summer Tree Walk will be in July on date TBD. Watch this page for info. You’ll stroll our cool sidewalks and look up where shade trees meet overhead, fighting the heat and helping wildlife. We’ll look down to consider tree roots and soils. We’ll ask: how do Mass Ave’s huge Heritage trees survive?
Recent Events
Spring Tree Walk
Walkers joined RMA’s free public Tree Walk on a sunny Sunday afternoon in April. They saw majestic trees and the historic landscape around some famous mansions. Walkers saw why it is still hard to grow healthy trees. The RMA team and photographer Lennon Maldonado are thanked for the event’s success.
Two new magnolias for the Brazil Embassy
The Embassy of Brazil joined RMA’s program of planting trees at diplomatic sites in partnership with the city Urban Forestry Division and the Arbor Day Foundation. In November 2024 pair of magnolia grandiflora trees requested by Ambassador H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti were planted. A lovely welcome ceremony followed.
New RMA makes new friends at Mitchell Park Day
The annual Fall Fun Day at Mitchell Park last October drew 500-600 attendees. Next to Restore Mass Ave’s info table, the Embassy of China had a wildly popular food table. Pictured below left are Wenxing Qiu, Chinese Minister to Washington, with Carole Feld, ANC 2 D 01 Commissioner, Marie Drissell of the Sheridan Kalorama Neighborhood Council and Deborah Shapley of RMA.
August – First RMA Free Public Tree Walk
Our first free public Tree Walk was held on Sunday August 25 2024. About a dozen people met under the double row ginkgo and tulip poplar trees that line the sidewalks around Sheridan Circle. Walkers were shown how Sheridan Circle’s design and trees embody L’Enfant’s grand design for the capital city. The walk featured otter species: the tall feathery locust by the Chile Ambassador’s residence, the two ‘Valley Forge’ elms we planted by the Cameroon Embassy, and the four ‘Princeton’ elms in front of the Zambia Embassy. At our last stop we measured the huge white oak tree by 2419 Mass planted in 1908.
