The environmental nonprofit TreePeople is partnering with the U.S. Forest Service to offer free training in leading reforestation efforts.
Free Restoration Supervisor training teaches how to supervise volunteers during TreePeople's restoration efforts in the Angeles National Forest this Spring 2011. Participants will learn how to teach the planting of native tree seedlings, proper safety and tool use, and how to ensure that everyone has a great time.
Training is this Sat., Dec. 11, 9 AM-2 PM in the Angeles National Forest. Details will be given at registration. Register online at http://www.treepeople.org/angeles-restoration-supervisor-training-0
Volunteer leaders are needed to assist TreePeople and the USFS in Forest Aid:Angeles from Sat., March 5 to Sun., May 1, 2011. Forest Aid:Angeles will enlist thousands of volunteers to plant 23,000 trees in 75-acres of the fire-damaged Angeles National Forest. Planting will take place in areas that cannot recover on their own, especially along major roads including the scenic Angeles Crest Highway. Trees will be small native seedlings, 6-8 in. tall.
The 2009 Angeles Forest Station Fire burned more than 160,000 acres, making it the largest fire in modern Los Angeles County history. This massive volunteer effort, known as Forest Aid:Angeles, is a follow-up to another post-wildfire project in the San Bernardino National Forest, where volunteers working under a partnership of TreePeople, the National Forest Association and the U.S. Forest Service planted nearly 50,000 seedlings during the years 2009 and 2010.
TreePeople is a nonprofit that unites the power of trees, people and technology to grow a sustainable future for the Los Angeles region. TreePeople's mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the process as a model for the world. More information at www.treepeople.org/angeles-national-forest-restoration.
(Note: because someone will write about it -- yes, the graphic is of a jade plant, but you get the idea!)
