Tree Adoptions and Sales Trees Forever has been working for decades to help people plant yard trees in Cedar Rapids. It organizes Tree Adoptions to eliminate the cost barrier for people who are motivated to plant a tree. Since the derecho, Trees Forever and other partners, such as the Monarch Research Project, have organized tree adoptions, distributions, and tree sales leading to thousands of yard trees being planted in the community. Continuing adoptions, especially of species designated as Superior or Allowed on the ReLeaf Tree List, will be a component of reforestation.
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Trees Forever operates a program called TreeKeepers. The program provides volunteers with approximately eight hours of training. Then, those volunteers work to organize and lend a hand with plantings all over the community. If someone needs help planting a tree, they can call a TreeKeeper. TreeKeepers also help serve as team leaders in corporate employee planting events, and volunteer at tree adoptions as well. There are several hundred graduates of the TreeKeepers program in the community. Trees Forever will continue and expand its TreeKeepers program to plant yard trees at multi-family houses and other rental properties around the city. These properties, many of which house vulnerable populations, are places where yard trees can have the most positive impact.
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