Awards

In June, 2024 Tree Friends United was honored with awards from both the Maryland General Assembly and the Montgomery County Civic Association. The awards are tributes to all of us who have helped save hundreds of trees and restored our vibrant ecosystem. In the photo below (from left to right) Maryland State Delegate Lorig Charkoudian presents awards to Conservation Montgomery recipients Caren Madsen and Amanda Farber who have done amazing work to advocate for the health of our trees, and Tree Friends United volunteers Carl Gunther, Oona Stieglitz, and Jon Nowick.

Oona’s Poem.  Here’s the poem that Oona Stieglitz created and read at the above-mentioned awards ceremony yesterday.  She says it is with apologies to American writer-poet Joyce Kilmer:

I think that I will never see

A thing as sad as a strangled tree

With ivy climbing to the sky

Tree Friends are here to snip and pry!