Arbor Day Tree Giveaway
Thu, Jan 16
|Louisiana Forestry Association
Get free trees! American Elm, Black Oak, Water Oak and Silky Dogwood trees will be given away from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16!
Time & Location
Jan 16, 2020, 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Louisiana Forestry Association, 2316 South Macarthur Drive, Alexandria, LA, USA
About the event
The Louisiana Forestry Association is celebrating Arbor Day by giving away 1,000 seedlings on Thursday, Jan. 16. Trees given away this year will be the American Elm, Silky Dogwood and two species of oak: Black Oak and Water Oak.
Folks can drive through the parking area of the LFA office at 2316 S. MacArthur Drive in Alexandria beginning at 7:30 a.m. and will give away 1,000 trees.
“A good way to look at planting hope for the future in the New Year is planting a tree,” said. C.A. “Buck” Vandersteen, executive director of the Louisiana Forestry Association. “And this is the best time of year to plant trees in Louisiana. That’s why we celebrate Arbor Day each January.”
More than 15 million acres of forests are spread across Louisiana, about half of the state. Products from the forest account for about $11 billion to the state’s economy each year —…