CommuniTree Projects
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Opequon Elementary School, located in Martinsburg, West Virginia celebrated a breezy Earth Day outside planting 16 native trees on school grounds. Two Pre-kindergarten, six kindergarten, four first grade, and six second grade classes participated in the tree planting and were taught about the environmental benefits and proper care and maintenance of the trees. Classroom teachers […]
Potomac Valley Audubon Society, a local chapter of the National Audubon Society, based out of Shepherdstown, WV, hosted their first Carla Hardy WV CommuniTree planting at Stauffer’s Marsh Nature Preserve near Hedgesville, West Virginia. The Project Leader, KC Walters, recruited and organized volunteers throughout the local community to help plant the 24 trees awarded. In […]
Girl Scouts get their hands dirty at Briggs Animal Adoption Center! Prior to planting day, the National Humane Education Society maintenance department staff created a planting plan, augured the holes, and delivered all of the trees and planting materials to each hole. A local girl scout troop participated in this environmental service project to receive [...]
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“Bringing Bark to South Raleigh” was a tree planting dream turned reality. On Saturday, April 21, over forty community volunteers participated in this CommuniTree planting on South Raleigh Street in Martinsburg behind the high school football stadium. The volunteers included 28 adults and 15 youth, mainly from Martinsburg High School FFA. Other volunteers included RotarACT [...]
11Mountain Ridge Middle School participated in Cacapon Institute’s Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds (PHLOW) Grow-a-Garden project under the leadership of teacher Rebecca Ellis. Grow-a-Garden teaches students about watersheds and non-point source water pollution, especially stormwater runoff pollution, harmful materials carried to streams by rain water. Students learn the benefits a rain garden has on their [...]
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Blue skies, bright students, and 16 trees to plant at the Moorefield Town Park. This was the situation on the morning of Friday, April 13 as Juwana Bridger with Moorefield Parks and Recreation was preparing to plant their CommuniTree kit. Employees of the Town of Moorefield dug all of the holes a day prior to [...]
