An innovative tree nursery inspired by the late Jane Goodall will be planted Tuesday in Pacific Palisades as part of a student-led wildfire recovery effort aimed at restoring communities damaged in the 2025 fires.
The project is part of TREEAMS — short for “Trees + Dreams,” organizers said.
The event, scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Seven Arrows Elementary School’s Aldersgate Retreat Center, follows the April launch of the first TREEAMS nursery in Pasadena. The effort is part of a broader initiative to plant 5,000 trees across Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and surrounding communities affected by the wildfires.
“The TREEAMS movement represents the very best of what young people can achieve when they come together with courage and compassion,” Goodall said prior to her passing. “By planting trees, they are helping restore ecosystems, combat climate change, and bring healing to communities in need.”
Students participating in Tuesday’s event will transplant 30 young oak, sycamore and blue elderberry trees into larger containers, where they will continue growing for the next one to two years before being donated and planted in wildfire-affected neighborhoods, organizers said.
The project will also include soil remediation and planting work near the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club in partnership with ecological restoration organizations and local recovery groups.
“The Palisades location is especially meaningful,” organizers said in a statement. “Aldersgate sits near the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club and across from Palisades Charter High School, in an area deeply impacted by the fires. The nursery and restoration work are intended to create a visible sign of progress, hope and renewal in a place community members pass every day.”
The first TREEAMS nursery was launched last month on the shared campus of EF Academy Pasadena and Saint Mark’s School, where students planted 30 native California sycamores and coast live oaks.
“After the 2025 fires, many students wanted to help replant their communities, but many properties are still not ready,” organizers said. “Construction has barely begun in some areas, soil is still being remediated, and trees and landscaping will often come last in the rebuilding process. TREEAMS gives students a way to act now.”
Goodall died in October 2025 at age 91 after decades as one of the world’s best-known primatologists and environmental advocates.