Tree planting event growing
Posted by Colorado Group Realty on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 12:17pm.Like the 12,000 trees he bought from the state forest service, Tristan Frolich’s idea to help Routt County forests recover from the bark beetle epidemic just keeps growing.
Frolich is the organizer of Re-tree Colorado, an event planned for June 26 in which he hopes as many as 400 volunteers will plant 20,000 trees at sites across the county. He’s envisioning a daylong event including a morning information session with foresters and several hours of tree planting followed by food, relaxation and maybe even live music at a to-be-determined site.
The idea for the event began in the summer, when Frolich attended a tree-planting event at Steamboat Lake State Park and then entered the Green Effect contest, a collaboration between SunChips and National Geographic. The contest awarded grants to five recipients who created environmentally friendly projects that would affect their local communities. Frolich was one of those five and received a $20,000 grant for Re-tree Colorado.
Frolich used much of the $20,000 to buy 12,000 trees from a Colorado State Forest Service nursery in Fort Collins. The U.S. Forest Service has donated 2,000 more, he said, for a total of 14,000 trees, primarily lodgepole pine and some Colorado blue spruce. He is waiting for more volunteers and, he hopes, more donations before acquiring the remaining 6,000 trees.
Local groups including the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council and the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association have signed on to help with the event. Frolich is meeting with Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. officials next week.
District forester John Twitchell said the state forest service is working with Frolich, as well, to revive local forests with a new generation of trees. "The pine beetle epidemic is pretty much over in this area" said Twitchell.
Frolich said his biggest need right now is volunteers. Those who want to get involved can e-mail him at tfrolich@evergreenbuilding.net.
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