I want to thank all the
volunteers for doing such a great job at the Loch Raven Reservoir Tree Planting
last Saturday, especially the volunteers from the Department of Aging and Towson
University. Hopefully all of you enjoyed yourselves and made some new friends.
Each of you helped to plant 182 trees
on .75 acres to restore forest buffers along the reservoir. Your hard work of
planting trees has helped to improve water quality, create wildlife habitat, and
provide cleaner air for us all. For every acre of trees (about 200 trees) 6
tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed and 4 tons of oxygen is provided. You should
feel proud for making a difference for our environment and for future
generations.
I want to thank our two new Crew
Chiefs, Chris Nehus and Sherry Kolbe, and our veteran Crew Chiefs, Dante
Tamburrino, Tiiu Mayer, Tom Earnst, and Bob Crush for their leadership, time,
and enthusiasm to lead and teach others about the significance of planting
trees! They all did an excellent job!
And I want to thank the Chesapeake
Bay Trust for helping to make this planting possible by providing the funding
for the event. Through their watershed stewardship grant to the Gunpowder
Valley Conservancy the GVC and and hundreds of volunteers plant 2,000 trees on
10 acres per year. That is fantastic!
I hope you all had a fun, educational
day and feel really good about yourselves for helping to improve our
environment. Thank you! I hope to see you again at future
plantings.
In the meantime, enjoy the photos below. They turned out great!
Sincerely,
Peggy Perry
Program Director of Education and
Restoration
Gunpowder Valley
Conservancy
410-668-0118
