Welcome to the web site for the

Dumont Shade Tree Commission

CARING FOR TREES TODAY.
PLANTING TREES FOR TOMORROW

Adopt-A-Tree
The Program
The Right Tree in the Right Place
2011 Adopt-a-Tree Flier
Adopt-a-Tree Application

Arbor Day
Through the Years
Arbor Day 2007
Arbor Day 2006
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How to Report a Tree Hazard

Helpful Links about Trees
  

The Dumont Shade Tree Commission meets every third Thursday from 7:30-9:00 p.m. at Dixon Homestead Memorial Library. Please check the borough Recycling Calendar to verify meeting dates and times.

History

Dumont, New Jersey was a sleepy farming hamlet until 1883 when the West Shore Railroad arrived. In 1894, Dumont Clarke became the first Mayor. Developers enticed potential buyers from NYC, resulting in a population of 634 in 1900. One 1906 brochure describes: “Dumont is not a treeless farm… Its streets are shaded by stately trees, and its houses present an air of comfort and refinement…” Camp Merritt opened in 1917, with the Monument circle and the dogwoods planted in Memorial Park are reminders of the million soldiers who deployed here. In 1951 a short movie “MY TOWN DUMONT” described: “We are a commuting people, departing by bus or train… In the cool of the evenings we return… the air is pure, clear, crisp -- where birds carol in melodious notes of welcome to a town sedate, calm, quiet and clean. A delightful place of shaded streets lined with pleasant, homey homes and gardens most attractively informal… Travel where you may, you will find no place more attractive in its simplicity than my town.”

Dumont currently boasts a population over 16,000. Street Tree plantings have become mature and some have outgrown the space allotted to them.  In 2006 a small group of concerned citizens banded together to bring the benefits of the NJ Community Forestry Assistance Act to Dumont.

In 2008, the Council passed Ordinance No. 1358 of the Borough of Dumont, Dumont Shade Tree Rules and Regulations Ordinance.

In 2010, Dumont became a TREE CITY USA! The program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, provides direction, technical assistance, public attention and national recognition for urban and community forestry programs.