Yankee Engineer reports that for the past eight years, Gary Pelton, Biologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Upper Connecticut River Basin Office, has been recruiting elementary schools to help plant trees along the Black River near North Springfield Lake (Perkinsville, Vermont).

In May 2010, 265 4th and 5th grade students planted more than 950 trees. Over the eight-year period, more than 8,000 trees have been planted in the riparian zone. The site chosen to repair had previously been a corn field with very few trees along the water’s edge.  >Read More