Grand Junction Parks and Recreation’s Forestry Division is accepting requests from city residents to plant new trees in public right-of-way adjacent to private properties. The Forestry Division prunes, removes, and treats street trees as a standard service for residents, and the planting of new street trees is an option when a property owner commits to providing trees with the water they need.

The city’s urban tree canopy is comprised of more than 57,000 trees, and ash trees make up 18 percent of the urban tree canopy. More than a thousand of the city’s largest and most valuable ash trees are being protected through the forestry division’s ash health-care-preservation program, including trunk injections every three years.

With the knowledge that a varied and diverse mix of trees is the best way to prevent large-scale tree loss due to insects and disease, the city has 70 different tree species on order for the 2025 planting season.

Other actions that are critical to the health of the canopy include planting and trimming healthy trees as well as removing unhealthy trees. In 2024, city arborists removed 390 trees that were deemed unsafe or in poor condition and planted 439 new trees.