September 27, 2024 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Click here for sign-up genius
We are hosting the 2024 Day of Service at Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum. The site address is 2405 W. Forest Home Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53215. The event is scheduled for Friday, September 27th with an inclement weather day planned for an October 3rd.
Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum is an arboretum, national historic site and independent, community focused non-profit, that provides access to a green space larger than any Milwaukee City park for the surrounding new immigrant, south side neighborhood. Our grounds are open to the public everyday for jogging, dog walking and bicycling. Tree pruning & removals will make the grounds safer for visitors and trees healthier.
There is a wide variety of work opportunities available including climbing and aerial lift applications (bucket and crawler lift access). There is a lot of pruning and removal work in the southern portion of the cemetery.
Our work day will start at 8am. All volunteers bringing heavy equipment such as bucket trucks, chip trucks, and lifts, please bring proper cones and signage to set up a safe work area.
Lunch, refreshments and warming areas will be provided by Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum. Local media may be on site to help promote the efforts of our volunteers. Students from a number urban forestry programs will be in attendance, this will be a great opportunity to mentor, teach and advertise to the new generation of arborists. The Cemetery has partnerships with Teens Grow Greens and Sixteenth Street’s environmental apprentices. They are going to try and incorporate an opportunity for youth to learn from this experience.
Please contact Adam Alves at alves.adam@countyofdane.com with any questions or to volunteer. If you plan on attending, please let him know how many people are attending and what kind of equipment you can volunteer for the day by September 15th so we can plan accordingly.
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