Pittsfield Tree Watch received a grant in 2010 to match a MA DCR grant to fund the Elm Street Project - the planting of 30 trees along a commercial area in Pittsfield to attract business and increase the city's relationship with nature and health. PTW is an ad hoc citizens group that preserves existing trees and encourages new tree planting and is working towards a Pittsfield urban canopy to be reconstituted and maintained to raise awareness and enhance community prosperity while conserving energy and lowering CO2.