If you have not already done so, please consider joining Friends of Live Oaks by making an investment of dues for individuals of $25.00, for a business, community organization, or other nonprofit organization of $100.00, and/or a gift to help support our efforts.

JOIN or DONATE with your credit card.

Mail a check made payable to:

Friends of Live Oaks
c/o Clay Bernick
214 A 84th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451

Or bring a check to one of our Meetings. We will send you a receipt for your tax records. We are now officially a 501(c)3 organization and donations are tax deductible!

Over the next year we hope to be able to build a fund balance that can help us support the following initiatives at a minimum:

1 – Lease of fencing to help offset costs for protecting live oaks on development sites


2- Supplies to support our fledgling live oaks seedling nursery for propagating native live oaks


3- Purchase of live oak saplings that can be donated to interested persons or businesses who will adopt a live oak and sustain it on their property


4- Help to build a fund for transplanting eligible live oaks threatened with impacts from development activity to new protected locations

5- Hire sawyers to mill live oak lumber for inspirational use

6- Fund our annual costs for website registration, State Corporation Commission registration, and other support costs

Notable tree that was saved in 2017 thanks to Chesapeake Beach Civic League, Friends of Live Oaks, social media & 6,000+ signatures on petition!
1 inspirational example of what’s possible with a roughly “100% success rate“ accomplished with “thousands of trees”.
Live oaks destroyed in Ocean Park.
The live oak material staged at Pleasure House Point before Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) Brock Environmental Center campus construction started in 2013.
Mobile sawyer extraordinaire Paul hired by CBF milling the lumber for inspirational uses like podiums, benches and other art projects.

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Thank you to all our supporters!