Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- TreePeople records
- Dates:
- 1970s-2010
- Creators:
- TreePeople (Firm)
- Abstract:
- The Los Angeles-based environmental group TreePeople is known for promoting environmental awareness and conducting educational outreach programs locally as well as internationally. The collection includes slides, photographs, audiovisual materials, clippings, correspondence, organization files, ephemera, and awards documenting the development and efforts of TreePeople.
- Extent:
- 59 linear feet (82 boxes, 17 record cartons, 8 flat boxes, and 4 roll boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], TreePeople Records (Collection 2180). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of material related to the Los Angeles based environmental organization, TreePeople. The collection includes slides, photographs, audiovisual materials, clippings, correspondence, organization files, ephemera, and awards documenting the development and efforts of TreePeople. The materials represent assorted TreePeople events and programs such as their Urban Forestry program, Million Tree Campaign, King Boulevard Memorial Project, public school outreach, and disaster relief work, among other undertakings.
- Biographical / historical:
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TreePeople, a non-profit environmental organization, was founded by Andy Lipkis in Los Angeles in 1973. Originally called the California Conservation Project (CCP), the group was more commonly referred to as the "TreePeople," and was thus, renamed in 1974. Lipkis established the organization at the age of eighteen following his experiences at a leadership training program in the San Bernardino National forest. After attending the program, Lipkis directed his efforts toward establishing the CCP in order to provide people with environmental education and the opportunity to plant trees.
In 1977 TreePeople established their headquarters in Los Angeles on the grounds of a former fire station. The site was renamed Coldwater Canyon Park, and would later serve as TreePeople's Center for Community Forestry. Since its founding, TreePeople have worked to promote environmental awareness through city-wide tree planting programs, as well as environmental education and training for the local community, and on a global scale. TreePeople's efforts have included disaster-relief work, in addition to initiating significant urban planting projects. These projects include the Million Tree Campaign in 1981, which encouraged the planting of one million trees before the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; the Martin Luther King Boulevard Memorial Project, where three hundred trees were planted in a single day; and the Big Tree Campaign, an urban-planting project aimed at providing shade to homes, buildings, and large sun-exposed spaces in and around the greater Los Angeles area.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Andy Lipkis, President of TreePeople, 2013.
- Processing information:
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- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Organization Files
- Press Clippings
- Photographic Materials
- Awards
- Audiovisual Materials
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-02 14:01:22 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], TreePeople Records (Collection 2180). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988