Our Vision
Our vision is a Fairfax with a tree canopy that is free from the threat of invasive vines, parks whose natural beauty is preserved for all to enjoy, and natural areas that thrive as functioning ecosystems.
This is an all-volunteer organization plus one paid intern. Our role is to facilitate a community-wide effort to save a million trees from invasive vines and to control at least the worst of the other invasive plant infestations.
Our Goals
- Recruit at least one Tree Rescuer for every park
- Recruit a Community Representative for every neighborhood
- Survey every park
- Hold quarterly trainings for landscape professionals so every contractor has at least basic training in invasive plant management
- Stage tool kits in every town for community use
- Distribute $90,000 in mini-grants to communities by December 2027
Steering Committee
Co-faciliators -
Treasurer: Tucker Newberry
Teams organizers:
- Surveys -
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Steve Hryckiewicz, Jean Lockhart - Community representatives -
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Steve Hryckiewicz, Tucker Newberry, Wendy Cohen, Jo Doumbia - Public awareness - Devin Pharr, Lynn Petrazzuolo, Katy Johnson, Jo Doumbia, Peg Boyne
- Newsletters -
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Christine McKinnon - Social media -
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- Newsletters -
- Workforce development -
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- Website -
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Donna Stauffer, Anne Brosnan, Nancy Rhodes
Our Growing List of Partnerships
Partnering organizations contribute to the overall effort in ways that are appropriate to their work. Those include: raising awareness about our community’s campaign to save the trees and get invasives under control in Fairfax, providing site access for volunteers, sharing counsel and expertise, engaging their volunteers in the work, and forming collaborative relationships with other groups.
