Tree Planting Event

Saturday, November 2, 9 AM – 12:00 noon
Yelm | Register for directions

Be Part of the Solution:

Trees are an important, concrete part of the solution.  Not only are they beautiful and prevent flooding through water retention, provide bird and wildlife habitat, remove air pollution, reduce heat as climate temperatures rise, and have proven health and mental health benefits, but they also sequester greenhouse gases.  The bigger the tree the better, and deciduous are best.  But we only get big trees if little ones are planted.

For all of these reasons TCAT’s Tree Action Group is partnering with the Nisqually River Project to do tree planting on Saturday, November 2nd.  (This by the way is a very kid friendly event). We will meet at the Yelm location at 9am.  For directions (and because we cannot accommodate more than 30 volunteers at a time) you will need to register: https://tcattreeplanting.brownpapertickets.com/   Please sign up!

About 5 years ago the Plant for the Planet kids calculated how many trees people in each part of the world would need to plant to get us back down to 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (considered a safe level).  At that point it was doable, and it was 150 trees for every resident of WA.  We are now so far past 350 ppm that it is not possible to do with trees alone (EV’s, regenerative agriculture, solar arrays, here we come.)   But trees are an important part of how we get there.  In fact see this article that states “New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”.
 Register here to join us!

I am committed to planting my 150 trees…how about you?  I like the idea of rolling up my sleeves and “digging in” to make a difference on climate.