Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Participants in the Arbor Day event at Live Oak Park include, from left, Kathie Richards, community supporter and artist; Jackie Heyneman, founder/chair of Save Your Forest; Git Boddaert, wife/supporter of Roger Boddaert; Ani Vartanians, Mission Resource Conservation District Landscape Program Assistant, and her husband Dennis Hawkins; and Brian Ek, Live Oak Park Ranger.
Jackie Heyneman and Roger Boddaert are the leaders of the Arbor Day event, March 13.
Jackie Heyneman, center, and Roger Boddaert, right, make sure the tree is placed correctly in its new location.
A group of volunteers lowers a young California Live Oak into a hole in Live Oak Park.
Jackie Heyneman
Special to the Village News
There couldn't be a better day to plant a tree than on Arbor Day. Roger Boddaert, the Treeman of Fallbrook, and Save Our Forest volunteers joined together for this special day, Sunday, March 13. Remembering the worrisome events that are threatening peace in the world today, the group was solemn, but happy to plant trees. It was a meaningful gathering.
The location was Live Oak Park and the trees were four 15 gallon California Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia). Trees, like us, do not live forever, so filling in bare spots is important to help our park live up to its name. For these aged trees, it difficult to reproduce in the park where foot traffic prevents seedlings from surviving.
Almost 20 friends and neighbors came to help put the trees into the ground. For some, it may have been their first official lesson of how to plant a tree. On hand for that instruction was Boddaert and visiting longtime friend Mark Wizniewski of Encinitas, a renown California landscape architect. The others were Save Our Forest faithful volunteers who care for trees in our community at two work parties a month.
Rangers at the park dug the holes, without a doubt the hardest part of the job. Save Our Forest provided the trees, with one donated by Pardee Tree Nursery. Ongoing restoration of the forest at the park is a lifelong project.
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