Everything You Need to Know about Tree Care & Planting
Click above and flip through the pages to get tips and information on tree preservation
Please Donate
Please Consider Donating to the Mountain Lakes Shade Tree Fund to help preserve our Tree Canopy that brings us cooler weather in the Summer and protects us during the Winter. Checks can be submitted at Borough Hall made out to the Borough of Mountain Lakes and noting Shade Tree Trust Fund
About the Commission
The Shade Tree Commission of the Borough of Mountain Lakes is committed to the development, maintenance and promotion of a sustainable, safe and productive shade tree resource that benefits the physical, environmental and social well-being of the community, and preserves the historical climate and character of the borough.
“…Out of the past comes this wish for you…. That the scanty forest derelicts of our day shall have given place to stately shade trees, umbrageous and beautiful…”
– The Mountain Lakes Association, August 3 1912, found in the cornerstone of the Mountain Lakes train station
Memorial Tree planting at Wildwood School. circa 1971 (MLHS class of 1984)
Second Thursday of the Month 7:00pm as posted on the Borough Calendar
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit.” – Greek Proverb
| That mighty oak you see in Mountain Lakes today is just yesterday’s little nut that held its ground |
Commission Members
| Name | Term expires | |
|---|---|---|
| Sandy Batty, Chair | 12/31/27 | shadetree@mountainlakes.gov |
| Dan Amato, Vice Chair | 12/31/30 | |
| Phyllis Deering | 12/31/29 | |
| Christine Belli, 2nd Alternate | 12/31/29 | |
| Marnie Vyff, 1st Alternate | 12/31/26 | |
| Cath Mitchell | 12/31/26 | |
| Roxanne Tavakol | 12/31/30 | |
| Tony Forman | 12/31/28 | |
| Brianna Ostrosky | 12/31/28 | |
| Kalvin Lee (student representative) | ||
| Lauren Barnett (Council Liaison) | 12/31/26 |
