Who’s doing this
Residents of Kalamazoo County. Neighbours on the roads in this project, and people who simply drive them.
It started when the orange X's appeared in May. Neighbours on one road started asking each other what they meant, then started calling the Road Commission, then started finding each other. Nobody planned this. It is residents who found out the same way you probably did.
We’ve spent the months since reading the Road Commission’s documents, going to its meetings, and knocking on our neighbors’ doors.
We are not an organization. Nobody here is paid. No group from outside Kalamazoo County funds us or tells us what to say.
What we don’t know: we’re not arborists, engineers, or lawyers. Where this site states something technical, it comes from a document we’ve linked or a person we’ve named. Where we don’t know something, we say so — and there are several places on this site where we do.
Who else is in this
Allies do not have to adopt this campaign’s language to help. Every page of this site is independently linkable and shareable — an organization that will circulate the meeting details but not the rest of it should be able to link the September 8 page on its own.
Join 2,153 Roadside Neighbors
343 of them have trees marked on their own property. Counted at the end of August 2026.
Join 2,153 Roadside Neighbors
One email a week at most, and never more than that unless something happens on a Tuesday.
Two minutes, and we’ll know how to reach you.
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