Tree-Planting Party
Saturday, October 25 | 7:33 p.m.
In the first of four scheduled tree-planting events in Vancouver so far this year, volunteers spent the morning of National Make a Difference Day planting trees and shrubs that will cool Burnt Bridge Creek and improve nearby habitats. (Photos by STEVEN LANE/The Columbian)
Jasmin Lee, 15, left, Jessica Haley, 15, Kristen Berry, 15, and Britta Geisler, 15, from Columbia River High School, plant a tree they named I-lean, Saturday morning at Leverich Park.
Columbia River High School students Sarah Wu, 15, left, and Rachel Lucero, 15, break up a tree’s root ball before planting. Volunteers came from Rotary International, the Boy Scouts and other groups.
Tracy Wright, left, and her daughter Roxanne Wright, from Ridgefield joined the effort.
More than 250 volunteers helped the Vancouver Watersheds Council kick off tree-planting season Saturday by adding 5,000 trees and shrubs (market value: $25,000) along Burnt Bridge Creek at Leverich Park.
Organizer Gary Bock of the city of Vancouver said it might have been the largest volunteer tree-planting event in county history, thanks in part to a free picnic provided by Nutter Corp. of Vancouver, Frito-Lay and Corwin Beverage of Ridgefield.
“To get the nontraditional groups involved, you almost have to throw a big party,” Bock said. “So that’s what we’ve done.”
by Always Right : 10/26/08 1:15am - Report Abuse
all the planting that is done will not undue the POLLUTION that permeates our watershed areas from bribe taking commissioners and planners. I pay 36 dollars a year for a beauracracy that allows continued development-rape of pristine areas. Just look at LacCamas Lake!! it is at it's lowest point since it was created in the early 1900's. why is it low...because developers with county's approval stopped the "feeder creeks" that flow into it. What a farce!!