San Francisco has a Mediterranean climate, which means we have long, dry summers and a short, intense, rainy winter. You may have heard us talk about planting drought-adapted trees, and wondered, “What does that mean exactly?” Well, here’s how!

We have good news to share! With your help, over the last 12 months we grew and cared for San Francisco's urban forest in a big way. Here's what that looked like!

How many of these 15 Urban Forest Facts did you already know?

Our workforce development programs offer youth and adults the opportunity to steward the urban landscape while developing job skills.

Our rainstorms over the past couple of months brought down hundreds of street trees in San Francisco — trees we can hardly afford to...

Earlier this month, Friends of the Urban Forest launched our new Adopt-A-Yard-Tree program to give free trees to eligible San Francisco...

As we start a new year, we'd like to share with you a review of things we've accomplished together. We've been working hard to bring the...

A personal note by Karla Nagy, Vice President for Operations Dear Friend, If you moved to San Francisco from elsewhere, as I did, you...

Friends of the Urban Forest chose the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District as the winner of its 10th annual Brian Tsai Greener Block Award....