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Volunteers were instructed to bring gloves and shovels from home. As back-ups, Parks & Recreation, Trees for Houston and Keep Houston Beautiful pulled extra tools from their warehouses which were on location and available for use. Volunteers parked in designated airport parking lots and were shuttled to their work sites. Professional landscape crews were appointed to each esplanade to give volunteers tree planting instructions. Prior to the work day, Parks and Recreation crews tilled the seven barren esplanades so the soil would be easy for the volunteers to turn. Despite wind and rain, chilly temperatures and mountains of mud, hundreds of volunteers arrived eager and early on Arbor Day morning to help plant an urban forest.
Keep America Beautiful
Wet but happy, 1,400 volunteers planted 20,000 trees for Keep Houston Beautiful’s 2007 Arbor Day program. (Photos courtesy of Jim Olive, Stockyard Photos)
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2007 Annual Review