In celebration of Arbor Day, members of REC's Vegetation Management team took part in a number of tree plantings throughout our service area, partnering with different community groups to support the beauty and vitality of local nature.
Dan Ricotta, Contact Forester, and Jake Bodley, one of REC’s contractor foresters, partnered with Culpeper Parks and Recreation and the Virginia Cooperative Extension to plant a ‘Shademaster’ honey locust at the Culpeper Sports Complex. Planted next to the new accessible playground, the tree will provide ample shade to park visitors.
Bodley also joined Jacoby Lipscomb, Forester, for a tree planting at Hoover Ridge Park in Madison County. The tree planting was part of a long-standing annual Arbor Day Ceremony with students from Madison Primary School. The ceremony and tree planting were held in partnership with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Department of Forestry.
The trees that are planted at each event are carefully selected by the Cooperative’s foresters to best support the local nature habitat.
