Free trees and training to residents. Residents plant and care for the trees. We all benefit.

Olympia NeighborWoods Program

I know we are in the midst of a wet wet winter and it may be difficult to think about trees. Maybe looking over this site will remind us of the spring that surely will return once again.

A legend to learn about is Jay Butts:

It is time you met Olympia’s tree phantom, a man who is rumored to have struck many times in the dark of night with his shovel, leaving behind a new tree to help green our capitol city.  Jay Butts was an ordinary man with an extraordinary vision:  to build and maintain an urban forest within the developing city.  One of the primary instigators of Olympia’s current Urban Forestry Program, Jay owned a large parcel of land adjacent to Priest Point Park where he planted and tended his own trees.  He willed this wonderful park parcel to the City as a symbol of his commitment to a city full of trees, even after his death; a plaque there commemorates his generosity.