Tree Speak

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at noon for Tree Talk Thursdays! We will be sitting down with Executive Director Mark Buscaino to discuss the Tree Report Card recently released. There is a whole lot of information in that report, and we want to answer any questions you may have. Send them to us via [...]

You, friend, are a tree enthusiast. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here. So you, as a tree enthusiast, want to know what you can do to take D.C. from scoring an Incomplete on our Tree Report Card to getting straight A’s. We like that about you. Luckily for everyone, we included toward the end of our [...]

For the first time since we began issuing the Tree Report Card, we have had to give an Incomplete overall grade. It was the result of an Incomplete for the Tree Protection metric, a grade based primarily on the effectiveness of the Urban Forest Preservation Act that the Council of the District of Columbia passed [...]

Constructive feedback is an integral part of growing as an individual, an organization, or even a city. It helps to have someone else keeping tabs on how you’re doing and ways you could improve. With that in mind, Casey Trees annually releases our Tree Report Card, a yearly progress check as we move collectively toward [...]

Contributing Writer – Mike Galvin, Deputy Director It is that time of year again – back to teachers, back to books, and back to report cards. Bringing the report card home can be anxious time for students, but report cards are an important tool for the parents, the student, and the teachers to be able [...]