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The District's Tree Planting Program is Growing
November 25, 2003
The Harris County Flood Control District is quickly becoming one of the largest tree planting organizations in the area. Over the last two years, the District has planted over 5,000 trees throughout the Harris County and intends to plant more trees every year.
As part of the District's commitment to tree plantings, there is a plan to pot approximately 20,000 saplings next year at a newly formed District nursery. This nursery will provide a tree source to supplement purchases from commercial growers for the ever-growing tree planting program.
The District has a vision of reforestation for much of the channel and detention basin systems around the County. Reforestation not only helps the environment, but also lessens District maintenance costs.
In addition to the tree planting efforts of the District along its rights-of-way, over-planting of trees is regularly being performed when mitigation is required for unavoidable tree losses. For example, recently sixty-eight (68) additional trees were planted at a District mitigation site for a new channel project in the vicinity of the Addicks Reservoir. These sixty-eight trees were above and beyond the number of trees required to be planted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit.
As part of the tree planting program, the District has involved the community in its venture. Volunteer tree planting events are scheduled throughout the planting season and continue to be well attended. In this way, the District hopes to engage community leaders and citizens in embracing the value of trees in our communities.
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