What’s Growing on (and up!) with our Reforestation Initiative?
Pardon the pun in the title, but, it is Friday, after all!
In 2009, we launched a five-year initiative to plant 25,000 trees in the watershed where many of us live, work and play. Once our final planting of 2013 occurs in a couple of weeks, we will have planted 24,000 trees, putting this initiative amazingly ahead of schedule.
It would be an understatement to say that our staff must have some calluses on their hands, as they have coordinated and dug into the ground thousands of trees this fall. Last Saturday, October 12th, 625 trees were planted at Hillendale Elementary School. Those trees were funded by PHS (Philadelphia Horticultural Society) and through the PADEP TreeVitalize Program, and planted by volunteers from the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, Pennsbury Township, and the Pennsbury Land Trust.
Dansko volunteers and our colleagues at the Stroud Water Research Center helped us plant another 750 trees this week. Those trees were funded by the US Department of the Interior via the White Clay Wild and Scenic Program.To do the math for you, the MAP staff and our hard-working, loyal and persistent volunteers have planted an absolutely astounding 1,375 trees in the past week alone!!
I can’t think of a better way to honor my favorite season than by helping to plant trees.
