Help Plant Longleaf Pines at Big Thicket National Preserve, Three dates

Help Plant longleaf pines with the National Park Service in Big Thicket National Preserve. Enjoy a day in the woods and plant longleaf pine saplings to restore forest for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and other wildlife. Our work will also mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. Scientific American stated, “The most important technology to fight climate change isn’t a technology at all; it’s reforestation.”

Join the National Park Service, Texas Conservation Alliance, Big Thicket Association, National Parks Conservation Association & other groups and individuals for tree planting in the Big Sandy Unit on the following dates:

December 11, 9am-2pm
January 17, 9am-2pm
February 21, 9am-2pm

Participation numbers will be limited. Sign-up early to secure a spot.

Get further details, and register in advance for Dec. 11 at this webpage:
https://www.tcatexas.org/event-details/plant-longleaf-pines-at-big-thicket-national-preserve-dec-11

For the January 17 or February 21 dates, visit this page:
https://www.tcatexas.org/tca-events

Why plant Longleaf Pine trees? The Longleaf Pine forest used to cover 60-90 million acres. Today only about 3 million acres are left (most is heavily degraded). The Big Thicket National Preserve has 15,000 - 20,000 acres of potential Longleaf Pine forest habitat. The National Park Service wants to restore and maintain these acres so that rare species that prefer this habitat will survive and flourish.