{"id":290757,"date":"2026-04-29T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:47:11","slug":"park-commission-names-3-new-heritage-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290757\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Commission names 3 new Heritage Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an April 28 City of Piedmont press release:<\/p>\n<p>Three new trees in Piedmont\u2019s parks and public spaces have joined the ranks of \u201cPiedmont Heritage Trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newly designated Heritage Trees were selected by the Park Commission from a pool of community nominations and announced at the city\u2019s annual Arbor and Earth Day Celebration on Thursday, April 23 at Community Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Heritage Tree program aims to raise awareness of and appreciation for Piedmont\u2019s diverse urban forest.<\/p>\n<p>Trees selected for recognition this year were:<br \/>\u2022 Coast Live Oak in Upper Dracena Park, nominated by Jack and Sharona Fischrup<br \/>\u2022 Gingko street trees on King, nominated by Cindy Rafton<br \/>\u2022 Redwood in lower Dracena Park, nominated by Richard Przybyla<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/coast-live-oak-dracena-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1587688\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/coast-live-oak-dracena-park.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/piedmontexedra.com\/?attachment_id=1587688\" class=\"wp-image-1587688\"\/>Dracena Park coast live oak<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/redwood-tree-dracena-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1587687\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/redwood-tree-dracena-park.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/piedmontexedra.com\/?attachment_id=1587687\" class=\"wp-image-1587687\"  \/>Dracena Park redwood<\/p>\n<p>Five community members or groups submitted nominations for this year\u2019s Heritage Tree program. The City extends sincere thanks to everyone who participated.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the Park Commission names up to five trees \u201cPiedmont Heritage Trees.\u201d Nominators of selected trees are recognized at the Arbor &amp; Earth Day celebration and receive a Piedmont Heritage Tree lapel pin. Nominators will also be named on future signage marking heritage trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/park-commissioner-jack-fischrup-shows-off-his-new-heritage-tree-pin.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1587686\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/park-commissioner-jack-fischrup-shows-off-his-new-heritage-tree-pin.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/piedmontexedra.com\/?attachment_id=1587686\" class=\"wp-image-1587686\"\/>Park Commissioner Jack Fischrup shows off his new heritage tree pin.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/example-of-heritage-tree-markers.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1587685\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/example-of-heritage-tree-markers.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/piedmontexedra.com\/?attachment_id=1587685\" class=\"wp-image-1587685\"\/>Example of a Heritage Tree marker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From an April 28 City of Piedmont press release: Three new trees in Piedmont\u2019s parks and public spaces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-290757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}