Windsor given money to plant trees

By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published June 12, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.
Updated June 13, 2008 at 12:33 a.m.

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A new program encouraging metro-area residents to give money to plant trees will donate its first dollars to the town of Windsor, where a tornado earlier this month damaged or destroyed more than 300 homes and tore up hundreds of trees.

The goal of GreenPrint Denver's Mile High Million program is to plant 1 million trees in the eight-county metro area (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson and Weld counties) by the year 2025.

Some 77,000 trees have been planted so far, but to accelerate the effort, a new program called TreeBank has been launched. People can go to a Web site and not only register their own trees, but make donations so more can be planted, said Jill McGranahan, director of marketing and communications for Denver Parks and Recreation.

Windsor, about 50 miles north of Denver in Weld County, is outside the program's Tree by Tree focus area, but, said Sara Davis, Tree by Tree program coordinator, "It is important to us to extend our friendship and help them rebuild their urban forest for the future."

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper added, "It's the least we can do for a community that's been through so much."

Suncor recently donated $1 million over the next five years to the project.

TreeBank donors can direct their contributions to the community of their choice by going to greenprintdenver.org/trees/ support.php.

scanlon@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-2897

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