Volunteers Plant 250 Trees

Staff Writer
About 25 volunteers joined the The Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission Protected Lands Council, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Suffolk County Department of Parks, in planting 250 pitch pine seedlings at Sears Bellows County Park in Hampton Bays on Thursday morning in an area that was heavily impacted by the southern pine beetle.

The seedlings were grown at the New York State DEC Saratoga Tree Nursery from seeds harvested across the Central Pine Barrens. DANA SHAW PHOTOS