Volunteers Needed Saturday, March 4 to Plant Trees in Tualatin Watershed

Hillsboro, OR — February 24, 2006 — On March 4th hundreds of volunteers will join together to plant thousands of trees in the Tualatin Watershed as part of Tree for All—Community Stream Planting Challenge. Volunteer tree planting events will take place from 9 am to 1 pm on Saturday, March 4 in Banks, Beaverton, Cornelius, Durham, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, King City, North Plains, Sherwood, Tigard, Tualatin and unincorporated Washington County. Tools, gloves and supplies will be provided, and participants will receive a free T-shirt. All that is needed is volunteers!

           
For a listing of Tree for All sites and to sign up to volunteer, please go to the SOLV website at www.solv.org and click on “to volunteer” or call Monica Kearsley at (503) 844-9571.

Tree for All is a program of Clean Water Services and the Cities within its service district, with volunteer and event coordination by SOLV and event leadership by Friends of Trees. It is part of the Healthy Streams Plan, a collaborative initiative to improve watershed health and habitat. Clean Water Services has challenged the Cities in Washington County to match its goal to plant one million native trees and shrubs along creeks and wetlands in the Tualatin River Watershed, for a total of two million trees.          

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