Tree Planting at Stroud Preserve

Yesterday it was on to another tree planting, installing large balled-and-burlapped pines that will screen a planting of 2,800 seedlings on this hillside at Stroud Preserve overlooking Taylor Run.

Preserve staff Erich Estes, Sean Quinn, and Preston Wilson have spent a couple weeks preparing the site: removing multflora rose, autumn olive, bittersweet and ailanthus. You barely can see from this distance that the banks of Taylor Run have already been planted with trees in tubes as part of an earlier restoration. The next step in restoration is planting trees on this very steep hill.

You can help! Volunteers will be needed to help plant these tree seedlings. We'll be having a planting day on Saturday, November 17. Call Natural Lands Trust's Mandy Santiago at 610-353-5587 for details.