Then a longtime friend who lives in Pleasant Grove just outside Birmingham described the hundreds of trees lost in his area, and the two thoughts merged.
How about the Alabama Forestry Commission teams up with the Alabama Nursery and Landscaping Association and the Forest Owners Association to replace some of the wooded areas of communities like Pleasant Grove as a Public Service project?
I know it's easy for me to sit here and suggest volunteer work for them, but there is a certain synergy to it. Maybe the Alabama Trucking Association can provide trucks to carry saplings from one place to another...in fact the Business Council of Alabama could coordinate the whole thing. And let's not forget the great horticulture school at Auburn University!
I realize there are bigger problems for residents to tackle right now...like rebuilding places to live and going through the grieving process for those who were lost...but none of what I'm proposing would need to be a tomorrow or next week event...Fall is the best time to transplant trees anyway. How about The Great Alabama Fall Tree Replanting as a name?
If you like this idea, send a link to this posting to people you know in the associations I mentioned, or in government, or cut and paste it, and re distribute it. Who knows?
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