Reforesting Our San Bernardino Mountains
March 23, 2010
With the weather so wonderfully spring-like, volunteers will be attempting to plant 25,000 trees in the San Bernardino National Forest. This effort will begin this Saturday, March 27 and will continue for the next seven weeks. Officials with ForestAid, a partnership of the San Bernardino National Forest Association and the U.S. Forest Service and TreePeople are hoping to recruit 3,500 volunteers to accomplish this project.
New trees are need to replace the trees lost in the wildfires of 2003 and 2007. More than 91,000 acres burned in October of 2003, the Old Fire and in September of 2007, approximately 14,000 acres burned in the Butler II Fire.
This replanting effort began last year and the partnerships feel that they learned a great deal and should be able to accomplish this goal. School children and members of the Urban Conservation Corps and any all folks willing to volunteer some time will be vital to this effort. Sempra Energy has donated $50,000 to ForestAid to help fund this project.
More information can be obtained by calling 909-382-2780.
With the weather so wonderfully spring-like, volunteers will be attempting to plant 25,000 trees in the San Bernardino National Forest. This effort will begin this Saturday, March 27 and will continue for the next seven weeks. Officials with ForestAid, a partnership of the San Bernardino National Forest Association and the U.S. Forest Service and TreePeople are hoping to recruit 3,500 volunteers to accomplish this project.
New trees are need to replace the trees lost in the wildfires of 2003 and 2007. More than 91,000 acres burned in October of 2003, the Old Fire and in September of 2007, approximately 14,000 acres burned in the Butler II Fire.
This replanting effort began last year and the partnerships feel that they learned a great deal and should be able to accomplish this goal. School children and members of the Urban Conservation Corps and any all folks willing to volunteer some time will be vital to this effort. Sempra Energy has donated $50,000 to ForestAid to help fund this project.
More information can be obtained by calling 909-382-2780.
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