Blackbird Creek Reserve, Townsend, Delaware
This morning, the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve partnered with ERTHNXT and the Boy Scouts of Delmarva (and Starbucks provided free coffee!) to plant trees on the grounds of the Blackbird Creek Reserve. They started with 1500 trees, some potted and some bare root, and they were still going strong when I left. It was really neat to see the forest of twigs start spreading across that big empty field, although the only way you could see the trees unless you were right on top of them was because they had protective sheaths or cages around them to keep the animal damage from killing them.
As I was wandering around, I noticed a small group had wandered off to the far end of the field and were busily planting away off in the distance. When I walked over there, it turned out it was Bradley Lewis from Boy Scout Pack 142 of Providence Creek Academy and his stepdad, Jerry McTaggart both of Dover. With them was Bernard from ERTHNXT, who posed with Bradley for a few photos to use on the website. I caught Bradley and his stepdad again on the way out and got a photo of them together to send them later. :)
I took about 150 photos, but I’m only publishing ones of kids who agreed to be interviewed or were posing for one of the sponsors of the event (the Boy Scouts and ERTHNXT were also taking photos for their respective media coverage). If you or your child were there and would like your photos published here or would like copies for yourselves, email me (lifeontheedges at gmail dot com) or leave a comment here. If there’s a photo of you or your child that you’d like removed, do the same, and I’ll take care of it as soon as I get the email.
And thanks to all you Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for all your hard work this morning! You guys were amazing!
For more Blackbird Creek photos, click here. For more photos of tree planting, click here.
