About Trees for Missoula
Trees for Missoula, a program of Climate Smart Missoula, is committed to the belief that a healthy urban forest is essential to building a livable, climate resilient community. Our goal is to build and sustain an urban forest that benefits the Missoula community. To do this, we plant and prune trees, educate residents about the benefits of urban trees and tree care.
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January 2014 - Representatives from the City of Missoula Urban Forestry staff, Trees for Missoula, USFS, DNRC and Friends of Missoula Parks create the first Urban Forest Master Management Plan.
Summer 2013 – City of Missoula Urban Forestry staff and Trees for Missoula volunteers spend 14 weeks inventorying over 24,000 public street trees. The City and Trees for Missoula received a DNRC grant for this project.
Summer 2012 – Irrigation bags are used for the first time on Missoula’s newly planted trees, and Trees for Missoula volunteers distribute information to residents about them.
April 2012 – Trees for Missoula becomes the major sponsor for Run for the Trees.
June 2011 - Friends of Missoula Parks rallied tree enthusiasts, UM, GIS, USFS, and DNRC experts to form Trees for Missoula, addressing urban forest needs.
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Background and History
June 2025 – The first ten trees were planted in the Northside neighborhood under the DNRC Tree Equity grant.
Summer 2024 –Trees Ambassador program is launched.
July 2024 – The Trees for Missoula program lead and two interns surveyed residents in the Franklin to Fort and Northside/Westside neighborhoods about tree care challenges and interest in receiving free trees under DNRC grant.
March 2024 –Trees for Missoula receives a grant from the DNRC and begins work to develop a tree equity program in Missoula’s underserved neighborhoods.
November 2023 – Trees for Missoula becomes a program of Climate Smart Missoula
December 2017 – Trees for Missoula receives a DNRC Program Development Grant for a shade shelter project.
October 2016 – Trees for Missoula along with Missoula Art Museum and City of Missoula Urban Forestry receive a DNRC grant for Montana’s first suspended pavement system at the Missoula Art Park.
September/October 2016 – Trees for Missoula volunteers plant the first gravel bed bare-root trees in city boulevards and parks.
April 2016 – Trees for Missoula and City of Missoula Urban Forestry partner to build a bare-root gravel bed at the Missoula Wastewater Treatment Facility.
October 2015 – The first Volunteers in Pruning (VIPs) class is trained.
April 2015 – City of Missoula Urban Forest Master Management Plan is approved by city council.