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Contact: Parks, Recreation and Tree Advisory Board
Name: Debbie Jahnke, Chair of the Parks, Recreation, Tree, and Trail Advisory Board (prtab@cityofpt.us)
Questions: Public Works Director, Steve King sking@cityofpt.us
For Immediate Release – October 11, 2021
Public Service Announcement
Arbor Day 2021
Come adopt a young native tree or shrub to plant, in celebration of Arbor Day 2021! Autumn is
the recommended time to plant trees and shrubs in our climate and Governor Inslee has
declared the month of October to be Urban and Community Forestry Month.
In these challenging pandemic times, our urban forests, parks and trails provide open space to
find solace and hope where we can be safe and socially distanced. Trees are a source of carbon
mitigation helping to buffer our carbon footprint, so critical in our world today.
In celebration of Autumnal Arbor Day 2021 the City of Port Townsend, through the Parks,
Recreation, Trees and Trails Advisory Board, will offer a young native tree or shrub per person
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for adoption as long as supplies last on Sunday, October 17 between the hours of noon and 3
pm in the Mountain View Commons parking lot at 1925 Blaine Street. We have red alder, mock
orange, garry oak, viburnum, red-flowering currant, tall mahonia, evergreen huckleberry,
cascara and douglas hawthorn. All are grown from bare root stock from the Washington State
Conservation District.