UPDATED: 60 Evergreen Saplings Planted Along The Ashford Trail

Ashford Trail evergreen saplings

The Ashford Trail is not far from my Education Hill house; I walk it often...sometimes to Avondale Road.  The trailhead is at the Bike Park.

Last week, I was surprised and happy to see a planting of ~60 evergreen sapling trees on the south side of the trail. Most of them were hard to spot but the orange tape helped.  Can you see the three trees in this picture?  After much back-and-forth Customer Service confirmed they were planted by the Green Redmond Partnership three years ago.

Two City of Redmond water barrels were visible in the woods. City staff probably tied on the orange tape to mark for watering.  Despite severe heat this summer the trees looked healthy.  It's nice to know the City and Green Redmond forest steward (?) are looking after the saplings.

Additional Green Redmond Community tree planting programs are planned for the Fall of this year:

9/25, Smith Woods / 10/30, Smith Woods / 10/30, Ferrel-McWhirter

-- Bob Yoder, 9/5/2021