Saving Forests $50 At A Time
NGC and the USDA Forest Service are proud to have formed a partnership sustaining our national and urban forests through this reforestation/forest education program. Your Garden Club can participate in a meaningful and practical conservation project by contributing $50.00 to a Plant-A-Tree plantation as part of the costs of replanting replacement and/or trees indigenous to a particular damaged area, whether by fire or by another natural catastrophe. You may designate a specific state you wish to benefit from this contribution.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
We are asking our clubs to support the Plant-A-Tree program by collecting loose change at their meetings. Create a clever container to pass around at your meetings. Under the conservation agreement, the U.S. Forest Service will do the planting using your donations together with the federal funds.
Please send your donations to Sally Troup with the attached new form! This way we know how much has been sent to NGC. Clubs that send in the $50.00 minimum or more will have their contribution individually forwarded to NGC so they may receive a personalized digital certificate. Clubs who send in less than $50 will have their funds pooled into a group donation of at least $50 (no certificate issued). See De Feldman for more information (defeldman6@gmail.com).
For your information, a $50.00 donation helps plant approximately 14 seedlings, as the full cost of planting and processing each seedling is $3.50.