Volunteers will plant trees around Hyattsville for several hours Saturday morning.
Through an effort led by Casey Trees, volunteers will meet at the Hamilton Manor Apartments on Queens Chapel Road at 8:30 a.m. to get training and then plant trees from 9 a.m. to noon.
The D.C.-based nonprofit has already planted hundreds of trees through its work with the city of Hyattsville, including a similar volunteer event in May at the Duck Pond.
It has a similar arrangement with Mount Rainier and a larger effort in Prince George’s County funded by a grant from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Spokesman Vincent Drader told the Hyattsville Wire that residents of the Route 1 corridor may be eligible to have a tree planted for free on their property as well. You can find out if you are eligible online here and see a list of trees here.
“Casey Trees now plants 7,000 trees per year, and we expect to reach over 10,000 trees per year soon,” Drader told the Wire. “All of the trees we plant are urban-hardy trees, meaning they are selected species that can thrive in the urban environment.”
A study found that Hyattsville lost 30 percent of its tree canopy between 2009 and 2018, for a net loss of 236 canopy acres, enough to shade Driskell Park seven times.
You can sign up to volunteer at the event here.
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