Plant & protect 10000 trees in San Luis Potosi

This last August, we started to plantig trees on the ciity outskirts. First, we talked with Municipal Department of Parks and Gardens, in order to locate areas to continue planting trees for our project.

We contact a landlord, 15 minutes to the south by bus, the area located in La Pila, a local Community, where there are lots of streets, vacant lots and parks with Zero trees.

The site selection was too easy, there are 2 little parks that we could analyze and selected to organize a plantation event.

Our site inventory includes:

Surrounding vegetation.- irrigated lawn, other trees, shrubs, non watered ground voer, chaparral;

Topography.- flat land, hilltop, hillside, broad valley, bottom, canyon bottom, close to a creek or wash;

Sunlight.- morning, afternoon, all day, partial shade, shade, reflected off wall or street, street light;

Slope.- steep, level, moderate.

Soil tyype.- hevay, sandy, pH level.

And the most important rule and regulation: SENSIBLE LOCATION!

Then, we contact our new volunteers group, neighbors, boys and girls, that are interested in becoming foresters.

Our Forester Program is a 2 day training about the tree basics, our Trees 101 Class, which provides essential trees planting and care basics.

After we contacted the volunteers, we did schedule, 3 days planting event,  

1st day: logisticcs: how many trees to plant, how many people were interested to participate, 

2nd day: prepare the event in advance, get ready the site for planting, water, soil, trees.

3rd day: planting day: 300 people arrived, 500 trees were planted and watered, 4 vehicles to help move 300 tools,  and 4 hours of work were spent on the event.

At the end of the day we celebrate when we our planting event was declared complete. Sodas and sandwiches were enjoyed in a friendly way.

For now it´s all... Write You next time.

Even the rainy weather of the day before couldn’t stop us as we began the spring planting season 2017 last week. We open the volunteer program through social networks and we had so many aplications, This allowed us to start sooner our planting season and volunteer with 15 people from our community.

But...,  Volunteers? How important are they? 

Volunteers, they represent Proforestal at city wide events, Proforestal, has two other programs: urban gardening and birdwatching, that usually held outdoors.  

Volunteers help us get the word out about these programs and events Proforestal offers in order to make San Luis Potosì City greener, and healthier place to live.

Volunteers usually attend a training session and one event per month. Interested people email us or send us a private message on social networks. The next training session is June 28.

The tree planting event was a terrific way to open the 2017 planting season. We cant wait to see more volunteers throughout the spring to help us reach our 2500 trees planted goal by 2017.

It was a great start to the season, and we continued to plant at San Luis Potosì City this past Saturday. Our volunteers braved the chilly temps once again to help continue to restore, reforest, and perform erosion control by planting 250 trees around Universidad Politecnica. This is the first round of reforestation that Proforestal has started with a big amount of trees (250).

While we have to plant a big amount of trees or this year, we thank you for you great support to our urban forest program. We`ll keep you updated.

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