You can help us grow Watsonville's community forest with a gift this holiday season!
Our Climate Corps Leadership Institute (CCLI) interns - pictured above - are planting trees in the areas where our community needs them most, including school campuses and senior residential neighborhoods with sparse tree plantings. Climate change is anticipated to create more extreme heat days in Watsonville and recent mapping efforts, like the one shown above, are helping us to understand where tree plantings can be the most impactful to expand the local tree canopy, reduce the impacts of higher heat days, and provide other climate resiliency benefits for Watsonville. With your support, we can create a cooler community filled with trees that provide needed shade while cleaning our air and water, sequestering carbon, and offering habitat to birds and wildlife who rely on our wetlands and the Pajaro River.
Watsonville Wetlands Watch is participating in two holiday fundraising campaigns this year to support our CCLI interns in their critical efforts to increase Watsonville’s tree canopy and implement other climate action and resiliency projects.
Your gift to our Santa Cruz Gives holiday campaign will support residential and neighborhood tree plantings, lead by our CCLI interns, for Watsonville seniors and other vulnerable residents.
You can support this project by making a gift at santacruzgives.org/nonprofit/watsonville-wetlands-watch by December 31st and help us earn a portion of available matching funds.
Your gift to our Monterey County Gives holiday campaign will support our school greening project at Pajaro Middle School and other efforts to create climate resiliency in the community of Pajaro.
You can support this project by making a gift at montereycountygives.com/wetlands by December 31st and help us earn a portion of available matching funds.
These projects are part of our on-going Watsonville Community Forest and Climate Resiliency program. To date, with of your support, we have planted and established over 1,100 trees and are implementing many climate resiliency efforts along the wetlands, creeks, and rivers, and throughout the City! For more information, visit watsonvillecommunityforest.org.
We thank you for your support!
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