Earth Day Tree Planting Ceremony Marks Donation of 65,000 Trees to Texas Parks and Wildlife
April 20, 2010
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AUSTIN — To celebrate the 40th Earth Day, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director Carter Smith will be planting a 15-gallon Cedar Elm at the agency’s Austin headquarters at 10 a.m. on April 22. The event will mark the donation of 65,000 trees made by the Apache Foundation Tree Grant Program to the agency.
The trees will be planted at TPWD properties across the state, including six wildlife management areas, four state parks and one Fisheries Division site. All trees are native and include many different species, including various oaks, the Longleaf Pine, Pecan, Texas Ebony, Bigtooth Maple, and other varieties indigenous to Texas. These trees will aid in restoration of habitat, provide forage and cover for wildlife and enhance trails or facilities on agency sites.
The Austin tree planting ceremony is part of several Earth Day events happening throughout the state. Various festivals, clean ups and tree plantings are scheduled in state parks across Texas during the month of April and May.
The Apache Foundation is the charitable arm of the Apache Corporation, a multinational independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Houston. The tree grant program was developed by the Apache Foundation to offset carbon foot-printing, bring nature back to cities, restore native plant communities and provide habitat for wildlife.
The tree donations range from seedlings, which are young plants; to saplings, young trees; to the more developed 5-gallon tree. Listed below are the tree planting sites, which include wildlife management areas, state parks and fisheries:
TPWD PROPOSED PLANTING SITE | QUANTITY | TREE SPECIES | SIZE |
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Alazan Bayou WMA | 54,108 | Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) | Seedlings |
Chaparral WMA-Daughtrey WMAs | 100 | Live Oak | 5 gallon |
Estero Llano Grande SP | 31 | See Below | See Below |
5 | Anacahuita/Wild Olive (Cordia boissieri) | 5 gallon | |
1 | Rio Grande Ash (Fraxinus berlandieriana) | 5 gallon | |
2 | Sugar hackberry (Celtis laevigata) | 5 gallon | |
1 | Texas Ebony (Pithecellobium flexicaule) | 5 gallon | |
7 | Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) | 5 gallon | |
10 | Anacua (Ehretia anacua) | 5 gallon | |
3 | Montezuma Bald Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) | 5 gallon | |
2 | Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia) | 5 gallon | |
Goliad SP | 39 | See Below | See Below |
5 | Anacua (Ehretia anacua) | 5 gallon | |
6 | Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia) | 5 gallon | |
7 | Anacahuita/Mexican Olive (Cordia boissieri) | 5 gallon | |
3 | Spiny Hackberry/Granjeno (Celtis pallida) | 5 gallon | |
9 | Texas Ebony (Pithecellobium flexicaule) | 5 gallon | |
3 | Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) | 5 gallon | |
3 | Texas Sugarberry/Sugar Hackberry (Celtis laevigata) | 5 gallon | |
3 | Western Soapberry (Sapindus drummondii) | 5 gallon | |
Kerr WMA | 140 | See Below | See Below |
25 | Lacey Oak (Quercus glaucoides) | 5 gallon | |
25 | Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) | 5 gallon | |
20 | Texas Oaks (Quercus texana) | 5 gallon | |
25 | Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) | 5 gallon | |
20 | Pecan (Carya Illinoensis) | 5 gallon | |
15 | Redbud (Cercis canadensis) | 5 gallon | |
10 | Eve’s Necklace (Sophora affinis) | 5 gallon | |
Lake Corpus Christi State Park | 15 | Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) | 5 gallon |
Lost Maples SP | 50 | See Below | 5 gallon |
Bigtooth Maple (Acer granditatum) | 5 gallon | ||
Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) | 5 gallon | ||
Texas Red Oak (Quercus buckleyi) | 5 gallon | ||
Lacey Oak (Quercus glaucoides) | 5 gallon | ||
Lower Neches WMA | 10,500 | See Below | See Below |
4,300 | White (Quercus alba), Willow (Quercus phellos), Water Oak (Quercus nigra) | Bare Root Saplings | |
6,200 | Live Oak (Quercus virginiana), Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia) | Bare Root Saplings | |
Old Tunnel WMA | 70 | See Below | See Below |
20 | Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) | 5 gallon | |
20 | Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) | 5 gallon | |
10 | Redbud (Cercis canadensis) | 5 gallon | |
15 | Pecan (Carya Illinoensis) | 5 gallon | |
5 | Eve’s Necklace (Sophora affinis) | 5 gallon | |
Sea Center Texas | 465 | See Below | See Below |
60 | Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia) | 5 gallon | |
50 | Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) | 5 gallon | |
60 | Nuttall Oak (Quercus nuttallii) | 5 gallon | |
50 | Chestnut Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii) | 5 gallon | |
5 | Shumard (red) Oak (Q. shumardii) | 5 gallon | |
15 | Willow Oak (Q. phellos) | 5 gallon | |
25 | Redbud (Cercis canadensis) | 5 gallon | |
200 | Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) | Saplings to 5 gallon | |
TOTAL | 65,518 |
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