Scout Trees

It was Scout Tree Day!

On Saturday April 5, many local Beavers, Cubs and Scouts from Armstrong, Vernon, and Salmon Arm, came together to plant trees at our local Fintry Provincial Park, located along the beautiful Okanagan Lake.
The turn out was great, with the Fintry Park offering free family camping for anyone involved in planting. We were able to plant around 10 seedlings and 5 rose bushes at each campsite, to not only beautify the park, but to provide future shade for campers as well.
Topping off the planting, we all joined together for a great lunch.

ScouTrees is first and foremost an environmental program, to help reforest Canada, but has always helped raise funds for Scouting as well. Through sponsors and donors ScouTrees income helps fund local Scouting activities.
Some sections/groups may find that they have sufficient income from Popcorn sales and prefer to take part in ScouTrees as an environmental project, without fundraising. In this case, children and adults come out and plant trees to perhaps replace trees lost in a fire, or to beautify certain areas such as parks.

Since 1973, Canadian Scouting members have planted more than 60 million tree seedlings as part of the ScouTrees for Canada program. To understand how many trees that is, if they'd planted all of these 60 million trees along the Trans-Canada Highway's 7,699 km length, you would find a tree every 15 cm coast to coast and almost back again.

Thanks to all that made this possible, especially P.R.T for supplying the seedlings.

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