Over 50 volunteers, including 35 Bellefonte High School students, braved drizzly conditions and planted over 700 native trees, shrubs, and live dogwood stakes within Joseph A. Masullo Memorial Park in Bellefonte Borough creating a much needed 25 foot wide riparian buffer along approximately 600 feet of stream.

The planting was organized by the ClearWater Conservancy as part of their 2007 Beatty Memorial Arbor Day event

Sue Hannegan, Bellefonte Borough’s Assistant Manager, visited the site as the planting was wrapping up and was impressed by the efficiency of the student planters.

"Bellefonte Borough appreciates the cooperation and donations given to this worthy project and looks forward to the positive impact it will have on the Spring Creek corridor and the newly acquired and newly named Masullo Memorial Park,” said Hannegan. “Another recommendation of the Bellefonte Waterfront Master Plan has been accomplished and in the process we all learned a little bit more about streambank conservation. We will definitely be watching the progress of those live stake dogwood branches as they take root and grow!"

ClearWater Conservancy’s Arbor Day event was sponsored by SPE Federal Credit Union, Trautman Arbor Care, and Blackhawk Homestead Nursery.

Joseph A. Masullo Memorial Park located at the foot of Reynolds Avenue and at the confluence of Logan Branch and Spring Creek.

Link: PA Landscape and Nursery Assn. Highlights Arbor Day, Supports REAP

5/4/2007