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- History of Brookline's Tree Planting Committee
1883: Tree Warden position was formalized following the “Tree Warden Act”
1886: Tree Planting Committee established
1930s: Tree Planting Committee proposed the development of a Back-of-Sidewalk tree planting program
1994: First GIS street tree inventory completed by 97 community volunteers
2009: Parks and Open Space Division performed a complete update of all the street trees in the inventory and trees within a majority of Brookline’s parks
The Town of Brookline has been a recipient of the Tree City USA award 31 times.
Lowell Road, Brookline