Boy Scouts to Help Replant Bastrop Trees Destroyed by Fire
Credit Nathan Bernier, KUT NewsA popular campground in Bastrop that was devastated by the Labor Day wildfires in 2011 will be reforested with the help of Boy Scouts. Almost half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by flames.
The Scouts will team up with the Texas A&M Forest Service to plant about 300,000 loblolly pine seedlings over the next two years.
“When you take a look at the community as a whole, the Boy Scout Ranch has been there for a long time,” said Texas A&M Forest Service Central Texas operations chief Jim Rooni in a statement. “It’s a part of the community. Generations of families have had children go through there.”
Rooni says the ranch was the second-largest tract of land destroyed by the Bastrop wildfire.
