Seedling Saturdays Nearly Complete

The most recent Seedling Saturday was completed with a bang.  At Germantown MetroPark on March 31, 140 volunteers planted 1400 trees (with tree shelters installed) in just over 2 hours.  Most of the trees were bare root stock donated by the Lions Club.  Lions members from Germantown, Carlisle, Miamisburg, and Centerville turned out in force and did a super job!  The Lions Club also donated a great lunch for all the volunteers.  What a great day!

This planting contained white, red, and bur oak, flowering dogwood, eastern redbud, tulip poplar, pignut hickory, and American elm.  The planting compliments the magnificent old forest of Germantown MetroPark.  The new trees will widen this woods at its narrowest point and establish important species that are not reproducing well on their own.

A second planting of 500 trees went in at Wesleyan MetroPark along James McGee Blvd.  This young woods next to Adventure Central has many ash trees that are in the process of dying, and it is hoped the new trees will get a new canopy started.

Likely the final Seedling Saturday will be April 7 at Carriage Hill and Sugarcreek MetroParks.