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Program Accomplishments

40,955 Trees Planted               42,794 Kids Planting

Numbers updated after each planting season

2009

Spring 2009: More than 3,800 children and 500 adult volunteers planted nearly 10,000 trees. Click here to see photos of our plantings.

Where did we plant? In addition to our self-led nationwide tree planting efforts:

• Cool Spring Park, Riverview Cemetery, and other sites in Wilmington, DE
• Red Lion, New Castle County, DE
• Blackbird Creek Reserve, Townsend, DE
• Milford Neck Preserve, Kent County, DE
• Marsh Creek State Park, Downingtown, PA

Our Partners

• Arbor Day Foundation
• Boy Scouts of America DelMarVa Council
• Delaware Center for Horticulture
• Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
• Delmarva Power
• Girl Scout Council of Chesapeake Bay
• Girl Scout Council of Eastern Pennsylvania
• Girl Scouts of the USA
• The Nature Conservancy
• Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources and Bureau of State Parks

2008

Planted 2,000 trees to complete GSUSA 95^th anniversary celebration with a total of 14,000 trees.

Spring 2008: More than 600 children and 300 adult volunteers planted over 4,000 trees

Fall 2008: Over 6,600 trees were planted by more than 6,600 children and adults

Where did we plant? In addition to our self-led nationwide tree planting efforts:

• Brown Burton Winchester Park and other sites in Wilmington, DE
• Killen’s Pond State Park, Felton, DE
• Tuscarora Creek, Monocacy Watershed, Adamstown, MD
• Coyne Farm, Coatesville, PA
• Conewego Creek, Monocacy Watershed, Lawn, PA
• The Stroud Preserve, West Chester, PA
• The Stateline Woods Preserve, Kennett Square, PA
• Camp Tweedale, Oxford, PA

Our Partners

• Boy Scouts of DelMarVa Council
• The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Delaware Center for Horticulture
• Girl Scout Council of Eastern Pennsylvania
• Girl Scout Council of Greater New York
• McCormick Taylor
• Stroud Water Research Center
• Natural Lands Trust
• Kennett Township Land Trust
• Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware

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2007

Spring 2007: 50 children and adult volunteers planted 1,200 Trees in Milford, DE.

In 2007, the Future of Life, Inc. (now ERTHNXT) announced a nationwide tree planting collaboration with the Girl Scouts of the USA coinciding with the Girl Scouts’ 95th anniversary celebration. ERTHNXT provided Girl Scout Councils with 95 trees, and 148 councils in 46 states signed up to plant trees through this program, engaging thousands of girls and planting 14,000 trees.

Watch our founder on the Sundance Channel:

• Video
• Podcast

Watch the 95th Anniversary Tree Planting video

• PC version
• MAC version

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2006

FALL 2006 – More than 500 Girl Scouts, their parents, and siblings from the Hemlock and Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Councils planted 5,500 trees in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. The planting events were part of a kickoff for the Trees for the 21st Century initiative. The Girl Scouts were also planting as part of their goal to earn an Improve your Footprint patch, which they received when they completed the expectations of their service-learning curriculum.

Where did we plant?

• Red Musser Farm, Elizabethtown, PA
• South Middleton Park, Boiling Springs, PA
• Holy Saviour Cemetery, Jennersville, PA
• Jacobus Farm, Machipongo, VA
• Bloomfield Farm, Centreville, MD

Our Partners

• The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council
• Hemlock Girl Scout Council
• Stroud Water Research Center

Event Sponsors

• The Laffey-McHugh Foundation
• DuPont
• Archer and Buchanan Architecture, Ltd.
• Keith Hippely
• Lisa Quadrini
• Merrill Lynch
• Wallace Associates, Inc.
• Wachovia Bank of Delaware
• Wilmington Trust

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