About Us
The mission of the "Salve Regina TreeHawks" club is to help get Salve Regina’s Arboretum to a Level 3 status (it currently is at level 2). Dr. Chace, who is a professor here at salve and the current chair of the Dept of Cultural, Environmental, and Global Studies, has ideas about a plan on how to achieve this higher status. He has agreed to be the advisor of this club and with his help, students/members will be involved in tasks such as cataloging trees and shrubs on campus during the school year. Another aspect of the club would be community outreach about local issues involving our campuses trees (such as Beech Leaf/Beech Bark disease) as well as working with Mike Chester and Mike Potter in grounds and Mary Beth Pelletier (co-advisors with Dr. Chace). Mike Chester and Mike potter help to keep the trees on campus healthy, make choices of new trees, and make decisions when old trees need to come down. Mary Beth Pelletier is a member of the sustainability committee and is directly involved in the planning of on campus activities such as Arboretum Tours and Earth Week events.
