Volunteers gather at Tarrow park to plant trees
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – Thursday afternoon, volunteers gathered to plant trees at Tarrow Park in College Station.
This is part two of College Station’s Urban Heat Island Project to help reduce heat impact within the city.
A total of 71 native trees were planted in the park.
Multiple volunteer groups served today including the Lincoln Recreation Center after-school program Nature and Garden Club. Laurie Brown, Recreation Supervisor with College Station, says a total of 62 volunteers were at Tarrow Park this afternoon to help plant trees.
“We’re just super grateful that the community has shown up in such force to come out and plant trees,” said Brown. “To see a community grow together and to do a conservation project together that’s going to last a lifetime and have a real in-ground impact for the community, the wildlife, the people in this community, and the community as a whole.”
Volunteer, Dwight Bohlmeyer, said says these trees will benefit both the residents and wildlife in College Station.
“This is a good day, I’m really happy to see these [trees] here in the park and it’s going to be a really beautiful walkway here to connect the opposite ends of the park and make it cooler hopefully in the park as well,” said Bohlmeyer.
