How To Help Current Activities Volunteer to Help Make a Donation to Re-TreeWNY Contact your Legislator Buy a Popeye Pod Make a Donation at ArborDay.org Planting - City of Buffalo Volunteer to Help We will need hundreds of volunteers to help us do a massive tree planting all over Western New York in April and May, the next planting window. Please consider joining us. Sign up now by clicking this link, e-mail paul.maurer@citcomm.com or call Paul at 716-888-9766. We could use large groups organized by churches, schools, colleges, corporations, etc. Since most of these plantings will be via the "bare root" tree planting method, anybody can help. We will train you. Back to Top Make a Donation to Re-TreeWNY In collaboration with local elected officials at all levels of government and business leaders throughout the region, we are working to secure public and corporate grants to cover the expense of purchasing products and supplies, but individual donations made directly to Re-Tree WNY will provide the necessary resources to ensure our future success. Please send a check to: Re-Tree WNY c/o Keep WNY Beautiful 144 Heritage Tonawanda, NY 14150 Your contribution is TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Thank you! Back to Top Contact Your Legislator As our federal legislators in Washington and state legislators in Albany are fighting to have appropriations for reforestation efforts directed to Western New York, they can use our help as concerned citizens in helping other legislators throughout the country and state understand the significant impact the October Storm had to one of our region's most treasured assets. For more information on how to contact your federal and state representatives and to also ensure your town and city representatives are concerned with the tree canopy in your neighborhood, please visit http://directories.erie.gov/officialdir. For towns and cities located outside of Erie County, please contact your County Board of Elections for appropriate contact information. Back to Top Buy a Popeye Pod As one of Western New York's premier pizzerias and Italian pubs, Pizza Plant has agreed to make a donation to Re-Tree WNY on behalf of patrons who purchase the 'Popeye Pod' - a mighty combo of fresh spinach, mozzarella, tomato, black olives, parmesan & a little "olive oyl" on spinach dough of course. Visit either of their Williamsville locations, or go to www.pizzaplant.com for more details. Back to Top Planting - CITY OF BUFFALO If you are interested in doing a neighborhood tree planting this fall in the City of Buffalo, Re-Tree WNY is asking all interested groups to follow the steps outlined below in order to secure trees for the fall planting: Step 1: Register your group here: www.city-buffalo.org/retreewny Step 2: Once your registration has been received and accepted, you will be able to access the online tree-planting database at the same site. Step 3: The online tree-planting database will show specific locations in your neighborhood that have been pre-approved for tree planting. From this database, you can reserve your tree planting locations for the spring. Step 4: After you have chosen the locations for your trees, you may choose a species from the suggested list provided by the database for each location. At this time, we cannot guarantee that the species you choose will be the species you receive, but we will do our best to honor selections. Step 5: If this is your first neighborhood tree planting with us stay alert for further information regarding a MANDATORY tree planting informational session provided by the Olmsted Parks Conservancy. Otherwise all groups will receive regular reminders on upcoming dates and steps to be taken before the planting weekend. Back to Top