LFP residents brave the rain to plant trees along the Burke Gilman Trail

Photos courtesy Lake Forest Park Tree Board

LFP residents brave the rain to plant trees across from the Town Center at Lake Forest Park

Volunteers Planting Trees on Burke-Gilman Trail - December 5, 2015

The steady rain this past Saturday, December 5, didn’t deter citizen volunteers from joining the Lake Forest Park Tree Board to plant trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail.

Over 35 residents, tree board members, and city staff collaborated to plant 20 Thuja Plicata Excelsa, a variety of the Western Red Cedar known for its fast growth and smaller mature height in comparison to typical Western Red Cedars.

In late October, King County removed 44 hazardous trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail across from the Town Center at Lake Forest Park. As a condition of the tree removal permit, King County paid into the Lake Forest Park Tree Fund to replace the trees on a 1:1 basis. Saturday’s event was the first of two volunteer plantings to restore the trees that were removed.

Another planting event will be coming in late January 2016.