Living Lands and Waters plants its 2 millionth tree at Arconic
Living Lands and Waters reached a milestone in its Million Trees Project on Thursday. The organization planted its 2 millionth tree.
The project began in 2007 when the organization started collecting and planting acorns to grow a million trees – a goal that was reached in 2016.
The milestone tree’s location is all about Living Lands and Waters’ roots: Arconic in Riverdale. This was the first sponsor of Living Lands and Waters and Chad Pregracke (the business was ALCOA at the time.)
Arconic employees alone have helped plant nearly 65,000 trees. Living Lands and Waters Vice President Dan Breidenstein says the organization has taken a special liking to oak trees and the benefits they provide to wildlife.
“We were seeing a lack of wildlife and lack of stabilization along the river banks, so planting trees not only stabilizes the ground around it but also the oaks are providing the food for wildlife,” he said.
He said he’s proud of the impact the organization is making around the globe and in the Quad Cities.
“It feels really awesome. It really does,” he said. “I’m proud to be a part of it. Here we are kind of trying to put back and help Mother Nature planting a lot of these trees that are not in the areas that they should be, so these trees are going to live long past us. So it’s really cool to see them grow and become a part of the community.”
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