As part of the Lost Pines Recovery Campaign, Aggie Replant, a Texas A&M student-led environmental service organization, is partnering with the Texas A&M Forest Service and Texas Parks & Wildlife to restore trees in Bastrop State Park throughout February.
The campaign, an extension of the Arbor Day Foundation, is an effort to bring 2 million trees to the park and 2 million to private land in the area over a 5-year period.
Pete Smith, urban forestry program manager for the Texas A&M Forest Service said the campaign will have a tremendous affect on the park, 95 percent of which was burned.
“There’s nothing like planting trees and helping large groups like this,” Smith said. “We’re impacting the whole landscape here. We want to give mother nature a head start in the park.”
Smith said that Forest Service representatives worked with a contract vendor before the campaign was kicked off in August to start growing loblolly pine seeds — the species native to the Bastrop area — into seedlings.
From The Eagle: https://www.theeagle.com/news/local/article_e50776c5-3857-5835-96a0-6316651adb90.html