Volunteers Help LandTrust Plant 5,000 Trees

Volunteers with the LandTrust for Central North Carolina planted 5,000 hardwood trees in a former farmfield on its Two Rivers property in Davie County on Friday and Saturday. The 153 volunteers came from near and far to join the effort to establish a bottomland hardwood forest that will provide a buffer to enhance water quality just north of the water intake for the city of Salisbury. Corporate volunteers from Michelin, Wells Fargo and Mountain Khaki participated, as well as students from Salisbury Academy, a LandTrust Leopold Society School, and Catawba College. Boy Scout troops 10 and 178 of Cabarrus County also helped plant the trees on Saturday.