TXU Volunteers, Texas Trees Foundation to plant 10,200 seedlings at Richland College

by PegNews wire

Even if the company is under ecological scrutiny, TXU's employees are more than willing to volunteer their time for the environment.

DALLAS — TXU Power and TXU Energy employees will be putting their green thumbs to good use Saturday, Feb. 17, by joining the Texas Trees Foundation for a tree-planting project at the TXU Urban Tree Farm at Richland College.

TXU Energy and TXU Power volunteers will help plant 10,200 seedlings at the TXU Urban Tree Farm at Richland College. The event, part of the Texas Trees Foundation's monthly transplanting effort, is scheduled to take place 8 a.m.-12 noon.

TXU and its predecessors have planted more than 24 million trees in the state of Texas since the early 1970s. Since the TXU Urban Tree Farm's inception in July 2002, TXU employees have volunteered their time and efforts to plant more than 36,000 seedlings for the Trees for Texas Program. Those four generations of trees are now either in production at the farm or providing shade and cleaning the air at selected public sites in North Central Texas.

The Texas Trees Foundation has helped plant more than 130,000 trees in North Central Texas since its inception as part of its mission to "green" the area. Most of those trees have been grown at the TXU Urban Tree Farm, which began in part with a $143,000 grant from TXU.

The four-acre production facility is the largest known urban tree farm in the nation, capable of growing over 7,000 ten-gallon trees per planting season. Mature trees are offered to the public for a donation of $35 each.

Source: TXU