Swampscott tree huggers keep to-do list full
The half-dozen residents who sit on the Swampscott Tree Advisory Taskforce are quite the industrious bunch.
Members dutifully assist the Swampscott Department of Public Works in the protection, planting and care of the town’s public trees – from developing policies to securing resources.
“Swampscott trees are important: The town would be a very different place without them,” Swampscott resident Verena Karsten, who serves on the advisory taskforce, in a Friday call. “They play a critical part in everything: For animal life, for climate change, for public shade, for our quality of life.”
Concerned residents established the advisory taskforce in 2018 after a conveyor belt of big storms wrecked havoc on Swampscott trees.