The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades.   Palisades FORESTRY Committee Palisades FORESTRY Committee The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the tree canopy in Pacific Palisades for its environmental, economic, health, and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants and protects trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades. We are local volunteers who love trees. Photo credit: Rich Schmitt Photography Pacific Palisades Urban Forest Master Plan Trees welcome our return and renewal. A team of residents, landscape architects, and arborists is collaborating with the City of Los Angeles' Urban Forestry Division to ensure that green infrastructure in Pacific Palisades becomes part of our community's rebuilding process. Learn More Donate to the Master Plan Palisades Parkway Promise Trees provide shade and beauty to our neighborhoods. They make you feel at home. Many of our street trees did not burn, but were left with no irrigation and no one to water them. A water truck has been rolling through the Palisades, keeping many of our stressed street trees alive. But the funding has been exhausted. Please keep the water truck driving through our streets to water the street trees. The Promise: We'll keep the trees alive until Palisadians come home. Learn More Donate to the Parkway Promise Palisades Forestry Committee. Temporary Ban on Planting Street Trees Palisades Forestry Committee will continue to plant trees at schools and parks, but planting street trees in the Palisades has been put on pause for the next few months at the direction of the City of Los Angeles in order to give DWP time to plan for the undergrounding of electric power and the placement of transformer boxes in the parkways. The ban is for one year from February 2026. The PFC plans to plant street trees as the ban is lifted. Learn More Donate to PFC California live oaks on Los Liones Drive. Photograph by Kelly Comras, 2026. Featured Resources Trees for Pacific Palisades This list, compiled by Palisades Forestry Committee, is for residents to find trees for home yards, schools, and parks (not for parkway street trees). No tree is perfect. They are living creatures like the rest of us. Tree selection is a compromise and a search for the right tree for the right place! Download PDF Fire Tolerant Trees This incomplete Fire-Tolerant Tree List was compiled by the Palisades Forestry Committee. Some trees may not suit your specific climate zone, growing space, proximity to hardscape and structures, or water needs. Plant the right tree for the right place! Download PDF Find an ISA Certified Arborist with TRAQ Credentials TRAQ (Tree Risk Assessment Qualified) through TressAreGood.org Visit Website Find an ISA Certified Arborist with RCA Credentials RCA (Registered Consulting Arborist) through ASCA Consultants Visit Website PFC Comment Letter Regarding CA Proposed Defensible Space Regulations April 29, 2025 Download PDF Santa Monica Mosaic - A Cultural Landscape: The Treasured Trees of Pacific Palisades Talks on our tree history, Will Roger's Park trees, and the future of trees after the fire. Watch Video

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades.   Contact Us Please contact us with questions or to join our mailing list. First name* Last name* Email* Phone Message* Yes, add me to your mailing list. Submit PHOTO CREDIT: Coast Live Oak trees on Kingman Rd., by Randy Young 2026 PHOTO CREDIT: Coast Live Oak trees on Kingman Rd., by Randy Young 2026.

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades.   Projects Street Tree Projects Arbutus marina Upper Santa Monica Canyon Project Eight Jacarandas, one Western Sycamore, and one Western Redbud View Project Hartzell Street 13 Arbutus Marina & Mondell Pine trees planted View Project Upcoming Street Tree Projects Temporarily Postponed, Pending DWP Alphabet streets Huntington Palisades streets El Medio, and all streets between El Medio and Bienveneda (South of Sunset) Marquez area streets All residential streets in Pacific Palisades, post January 7, 2025 fire Park & School Projects TREEAMS Projects TREEAMS (Trees+Dreams) is an environmental education project for youth from several schools, created by Margarita Pagliai, Head of Seven Arrows Elementary School. View Project LAUSD, Palisades Charter High School 6 Coast Live Oaks and 6 Western Sycamore View Project Pacific Palisades Centennial Founders Oak Island on Haverford: Coast Live Oak (Pacific Palisades Historical Society and PFC) View Project Palisades Elementary Charter School Jacaranda tree (Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery) View Project Rustic Canyon Recreation Center 18 trees: Coast Live Oak, Netleaf Oak, Western Sycamore, Desert Willow, Flame Bottle Tree, and Eucalyptus View Project Palisades Recreation Center 3 Queensland Kauri trees planted View Project Upcoming Park Projects Palisades Recreation Center: Sycamore tree: from the March 2026 Palisades Renewal Celebration at the "Wishing Tree" to an eventual planting at the Library Three trees to shade the kids' playground (Pacific Palisades Community Council) 2 Queensland Kauri trees to replace burned ones next to the Library Replace other trees burned in the January 7, 2025 fire Back to Top Street Tree Projects Park & School Projects Menu Close

Pacific Palisades Urban c initiative aims to revitalize and strengthen the commu­nity's tree canopy through thoughtful planning, strong community partnerships, and the application of proven practices in urban forestry and landscape design.  PHOTO CREDIT: Western Sycamore trees on San Lorenzo St., by David Card Pacific Palisades Urban Forest Master Plan Trees welcome our return and renewal. Mission Our team of residents, landscape architects, and arborists is collaborating with the City of Los Angeles' Urban Forestry Division to ensure that green infrastructure in Pacific Palisades is integrated into our community's rebuilding process. Vision A robust and resilient urban forest improves the overall quality of life for the community. Its many benefits include reduced energy use, improved air and water quality, and increased property values. We envision tree-lined streets in Pacific Palisades that will strengthen neighborhood character and community identity, support a healthy ecosystem and provide sustaining shade that encourages an active lifestyle. The Plan The Plan will be published as both an illustrated document and a website with the following elements: Executive Summary and Mission Statement Guiding Principles for Resilient Neighborhoods History of Palisades Trees Mapping and Analysis of Existing Trees and Site Conditions Community Input Street Tree Designations Best Management Care and Maintenance Practices Tree Care Guidelines References and Resources See Published Plans by this Team: Culver City Urban Forest Master Plan Santa Monica Urban Forest Master Plan The Team The PPUFMP team is composed of residents, landscape architects, and arborists who are committed to the community and experienced in planning and urban forestry. The team is led by landscape architects Pamela Palmer and Lisa Gimmy. Pamela Palmer, RLA, ASLA President, ARTECHO Architecture and Landscape Architecture Lead consultant for the Santa Monica Urban Forest Master Plan and the Culver City Urban Forest Master Plan. https://www.artecho.com Lisa Gimmy, RLA, ASLA, LEED, AP Founding Principal, Lisa Gimmy Landscape Architecture Co-lead consultant for Culver City Urban Forest Master Plan https://www.lglalandscape.com David Card President, Palisades Forestry Committee Landscape designer and leader in the Pacific Palisades reforestation https://www.palisadesforestry.org Kelly Comras, RLA, FASLA Principal, Kelly Comras Landscape Architecture Research and publication on topics relating to the study and analysis of cultural landscapes https://www.kellycomras.com Wally Marks President, Walter N. Marks Realty Pacific Palisades resident and Fiske Street Block Captain Randy Young Founder, Pacific Palisades Historical Society Co-author of Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea, and Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History, with Betty Lou Young Consultants Nick Araya, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist Principal/Owner, TreeCareLA https://www.treecarela.com Karina Nordbak, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist Principal/Owner, TreeCareLA https://www.treecarela.com Susan Pollack Fundraising Consultant Name Short bio. Short bio. Short bio. Start Now Name Name Name Start Now

The Palisades Forestry Committee's mission to enhance and sustain the health and beauty of the Pacific Palisades urban forest for future generations by facilitating the planting of appropriate trees and the caring for our existing trees.   Palisades Parkway Promise The Problem Nobody Planned For When the Palisades fire tore through our community in January 2025, over 6,800 homes and buildings burned to the ground. Families fled. Streets emptied. And in the silence that followed, something else began to die—quietly, slowly, and almost entirely unnoticed... The Trees Thousands of them, lining the parkways from Marquez to Chautauqua and beyond—the strips of land between the sidewalk and the street that give the Palisades its canopy, its character, its shade. These aren’t just trees. They’re the ones your kids climbed. The ones your dog stopped at every morning. The ones that made this place feel like home. The city controls parkways, but homeowners must legally maintain them. With residents displaced and homes gone, no one is left to water them. So the trees just… wait. And without water, they die—or weaken until disease finishes the job. We’re talking about thousands of trees. What’s Already Working In the fall of 2024, a group of committed Palisadians refused to let that happen: Tracey Price, Cindy Kirven, and Jimmy Dunne, along with Valeria Serna and Marilyn Wexler. Through the Palisades Forestry Committee, they raised donations of $75,000 from Pacific Palisades Community Council and $65,600 from the CD11 Foundation, for which we are so grateful. They engaged Traci and David Price of American Growers, a trusted local company with the equipment, expertise, and deep roots in this community, to do the job right. Since October 2025, their water truck, with some help from Valeria Serna’s water truck, has been rolling through the streets of the Palisades, watering parkway trees from Marquez Ave. to Chautauqua Blvd. The two-crew watering team ensures trees get effective deep watering every few weeks. The results have been remarkable. Trees that were showing severe stress are stabilizing. Canopy that seemed lost is coming back. Block by block, the Palisades is holding on to something irreplaceable. The UCLA/Luskin Center assessed surviving street trees in April 2026 and found 400 remaining. Bottom line facts: It’s a 2½-year initiative to water 400+ parkway trees. If we hadn’t been watering for the past months and didn’t continue watering for the next 2 years, at least 300 more could die or become diseased. Because funding for the Palisades Parkway Promise has been exhausted, parkways throughout the Palisades have not been watered since June 15, 2026. With $20,000, we can resume watering immediately and continue for one month. To provide watering through December 1, we need to raise $60,000 total. This initiative preserves the legacy of our existing urban tree canopy, keeping our biodiverse ecosystem intact and thriving. The beauty of nature’s architecture grounds and surrounds our homes. What We Need Now To continue this work for the next 2½ years—long enough for displaced homeowners to return and resume caring for their own parkways—we need to raise $440,000 total. $20,000 One month for hot September, 2026 $60,000 Total September, October, and November, 2026 $440,000 Total September, 2026 through January, 2029 This is not a permanent ask. As the community repopulates, homeowners will gradually take back responsibility for their own parkways. What we’re funding is the bridge—the years between devastation and recovery, when no one else is stepping in. LEARN MORE DONATE TODAY The Spirit Behind It This initiative is Palisadians taking care of Palisadians. No bureaucracy. No red tape. Just neighbors who love this place, making sure that when people come home, the streets they return to still feel like the streets they left. Palisades Forestry Committee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that allocates 100% of Water Truck donations to watering services. The promise in our name: "The Palisades Parkway Promise is that we’ll keep the trees alive until Palisadians are home." This summer, that spirit is being brought to life through Capt’ Splash—a community campaign designed to create joy, awareness, and engagement around this cause, with events and activities for kids and families across the Palisades. Because a community that’s healing deserves to also laugh. July 4, 2026 Palisades Parade, with Capt’n Splash, his pirate crew, walking trees, and his water truck “float”. This truck waters surviving street trees, and maybe squirts a kid. Can You Help? Every dollar goes directly to keeping these trees alive. There are no administrative fees, no overhead games—just water, wheels, a watering crew, and the will to bring our community back. Thank you for saving our trees. LEARN MORE DONATE TODAY

The PPUFMP is being funded by the Community.  Donations will be processed through the Palisades Forestry Committee, a California nonprofit organization  (501 (c)(3), tax ID pending).  You will be recognized as a Donor online and within the PPUFMP document. Thank you for your valued donation.  Donate to the Master Plan Donations will be processed through the Palisades Forestry Committee, a California nonprofit organization 501(c)(3). EIN Tax ID 99-1872338 Your donation will be recognized as a donor online and in the PPUFMP documents unless you notify us that you wish to remain anonymous. Thank you for your valued support. Frequency One time One time Monthly Monthly Yearly Yearly Amount $100 $100 $250 $250 $1,000 $1,000 $5,000 $5,000 $10,000 $10,000 Other Other 0/100 Comment (optional) Donate $100 Donor questions? Call Susan Pollack at (206) 407-9915 . Checks made out to Palisades Forestry Committee should include a note that your donation is for the Master Plan and may be sent to: Palisades Forestry Committee David Card, President 1349 Duende Lane Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 Mt. Holyoke Bluff, Pacific Palisades. Photograph by Catherine Kanner, 2023.

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades.   Resources Fire Resources (Trees & Plants) Trees for Pacific Palisades This list, compiled by Palisades Forestry Committee, is for residents to find trees for home yards, schools, and parks (not for parkway street trees). No tree is perfect. They are living creatures like the rest of us. Tree selection is a compromise and a search for the right tree for the right place! Download PDF Fire Tolerant Trees This incomplete Fire-Tolerant Tree List was compiled by the Palisades Forestry Committee. Some trees may not suit your specific climate zone, growing space, proximity to hardscape and structures, or water needs. Plant the right tree for the right place! Download PDF Trees Damaged by Fire – What Not to Do and What to Do Reference created by the Britton Fund, who support arborists with research and education. Written in part by our local Registered Consulting Arborists Carl Mellinger and Lisa Smith. Download PDF Find an ISA Certified Arborist with TRAQ Credentials TRAQ (Tree Risk Assessment Qualified) through TressAreGood.org Visit Website Find an ISA Certified Arborist with RCA Credentials RCA (Registered Consulting Arborist) through ASCA Consultants Visit Website Fire Resistant Plants Fire Resistant Plants, by Sustainable Defensible Space. Visit Website A California-Friendly Guide to Native and Drought Tolerant Gardens By Farah Snider. See page 54 for a list of fire-resistant plants. Learn More Altadena Green Website Resources Altadena Green is an organization helping property owners of the Altadena area with resources on how to save their trees. Visit Website Streets LA Urban Forestry Streamlined Rebuild Overview StreetsLA Urban Forestry Division rebuild process on trees and what to do. Visit Website SoCal Fires: Past, Present, & Future Adaptations Document SoCal Fires: Past, Present and Future-Adaptations, Brentwood HOA presentation by Jon Keeley, 2-19-25. Visit Website Brush Clearance Requirements Provided by the LAFD – Los Angeles City Fire Department. Visit Website PFC Comment Letter Regarding CA Proposed Defensible Space Regulations April 29, 2025 Download PDF Zone Zero By Chaparral Wisdom, California Institute "Government to Mom – Clear Those Damn Azaleas" – January 21, 2026 Read Article Summary of Draft Zone 0 Regulation Language - August 2026 Draft approved by the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection at its August meeting. View/Download PDF Do more than clear brush. Garden for fire Wade Graham, Los Angeles Times Read Article My house didn’t burn but ash from the L.A. fires fell in my yard Can I eat from my garden? Is my soil safe? Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times Read Article Fire-Resilient Bioremediation & Landscape Recovery Consortium This Consortium working on soil bioremediation and fire-resilient landscape recovery. Visit Website Many California Trees Survived the Wildfires. Here’s Why. Soumya Karlamangla, NY Times Read Article Recommended Firescaping Books Firescaping Your Home: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country By Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger. Learn More Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape Learn the Essentials of Creating Beautiful, Fire-Resistant Properties, by Douglas Kent. Learn More Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California By Richard W. Halsey Learn More Tree Resources SelecTree A tree selection guide from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo that describes trees in detail and with photos. Visit Website Photographic Guide to City of Los Angeles Protected Trees & Shrubs The City of Los Angeles has designated some species of trees as protected within its jurisdiction through the passage of two ordinances. Download PDF Street Tree Spacing Guidelines From Urban Forestry Division of StreetsLA View/Download PDF Request a Tree-Related Permit From the Bureau of Street Services (Streets LA) Urban Forestry Division Visit Website Report a Tree Emergency At MyLA311 Visit Website Report a Street Tree Violation At MyLA311 Visit Website StreetsLA StreetsLA's Urban Forestry Division oversees the City of Los Angeles' robust tree canopy of 660,000 street trees, and is on hand to assist with all tree issues. Need help? We've got you covered. Visit Website Urban Forest Manual 2024 Update by Recreation and Parks Department, City of Los Angeles. Download PDF Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance – NCSA The Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Trees Committee came together in July 2016 at an NCSA open space forum and continues to meet regularly by teleconference. Visit Website How to Keep Trees Alive Provided by TreePeople.org Visit Website Resilient Palisades Water Sages Team - Useful information on water usage and native/drought-tolerant landscapes Visit Website Why Aren’t We Saving the Urban Forests? OpEd in New York Times on April 22, 2024, by Margaret Renkl. Read Article Cooling Urban Heat Islands Through Sustainable Landscapes Research shows the cooling effects of sustainable landscapes - A summary of key findings. Download PDF Santa Monica Mosaic - A Cultural Landscape: The Treasured Trees of Pacific Palisades Talks on our tree history, Will Roger's Park trees, and the future of trees after the fire. Watch Video Thelma Hansen Research Symposium – Trees to the Rescue: Solutions for Climate Change Video from the University of California Watch Video LA. Rising Interview with PFC President David Card – Full Video David Card discusses Palisades Trees with LA Rising Listen to Podcasts Recommended Tree Books Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer Learn More The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World By Peter Wohlleben, et al. Learn More Landscape Plants for Southern California Gardens - 2010 By Robert C. Perry Learn More The New Sunset Western Garden Book: The a Gardening Guide - 2012 Ninth Edition By the editors of Sunset Publishing. Out of print last edition, but available at online retailers like Amazon Learn More Back to Top Fire Resources (Tree & Plants) Recommended Firescaping Books Tree Resources Recommended Tree Books Menu Close RESOURCE MENU Back to Top Fire Resources (Tree & Plants) Recommended Firescaping Books Tree Resources Back to Top Fire Resources (Tree & Plants) Recommended Firescaping Books Tree Resources Menu Close

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades. Project TREEAMS Projects TREEAMS (Trees+Dreams) is an environmental education project for youth from several schools, created by Margarita Pagliai, Head of Seven Arrows Elementary School. These planting projects were by TREEAMS with Palisades Forestry Committee design and assistance. One on the back slopes of Seven Arrows Elementary School (Aldersgate building) and the Pacific Palisades Women’s Club, facing Temescal Canyon Road. The other in the wild chaparral slope above the stables and corrals at Will Rogers State Park.

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades. Project Rustic Canyon Recreation Center 18 trees: Coast Live Oak, Netleaf Oak, Western Sycamore, Desert Willow, Flame Bottle Tree, and Eucalyptus (Photos: Roberta Conroy)

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades. Project LAUSD, Palisades Charter High School 6 Coast Live Oaks and 6 Western Sycamore (Palisades Long-Term Recovery Group (LTRG), Ahmanson Foundation, design by Palisades Forestry Committee, planting by Tree People, permit by LAUSD) As a memorial for the 12 people who died in the January 7, 2025 fire, 12 native trees were planted on excess LAUSD property between the Pali High football field and Temescal Canyon Park.

The Palisades Forestry Committee's mission to enhance and sustain the health and beauty of the Pacific Palisades urban forest for future generations by facilitating the planting of appropriate trees and the caring for our existing trees.   About PFC Our Misson Palisades Forestry Committee’s mission is to: Enhance and sustain the health and beauty of the Pacific Palisades urban forest for future generations by facilitating the planting of appropriate trees and the caring for our existing trees. Educate our community about the economic, environmental, health, social, emotional and aesthetic benefits of the trees that comprise our urban forest. Protect the urban forest from unnecessary removals by better management, planning and enforcement, and honoring the history of trees in the community. Honoring Pacific Palisades' Centennial by planting a Quercus agrifolia / Coast Live Oak on our town’s 100th birthday at Founders Oak Island on Haverford. January 14, 2022. Photo: Rich Schmitt Photography About Us PFC works with the city’s Urban Forestry Division of StreetsLA to plant street trees. We fill street tree vacancies when requested by a homeowner who is willing to water it. PFC also works with the city’s Recreation & Parks Department and other volunteers and donors to plant trees in our two Recreation Center parks in the Palisades and Rustic Canyon and in other public spaces. Our organization has also led the effort to plant “100 Trees for 100 Years” honoring our town’s 100-year anniversary in 2022, starting with planting a native Oak on Founders Oak Island (on Haverford). PFC was created in 2019 as a committee of the Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC), but is now an independent non-profit corporation (Code Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt). Donate to the PFC Our Team David Card, Board President Marilyn Wexler, Board Vice President Vicki Warren, Board Treasurer Jenny Li, Board Secretary Mary Schulz, Board Communications Director Nancy Niles, Board Member Valeria Serna-Rodarte, Board Member Joe Iacopino, Board Member Carl Mellinger, Board Member Steering Group All officers and directors, and the following: Bill Bruns Mark Rhomberg Jessica Rogers, Block Leader Lee Anne Sanderson Bruce Schwartz

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) is a non-profit organization working to increase and protect the canopy of the trees in Pacific Palisades for their environmental, economic, health and aesthetic benefits. PFC plants trees along the streets and in the parks and schools of Pacific Palisades. Project Palisades Elementary Charter School Jacaranda tree (Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery)