The goal - Plant a quarter of a million trees.

The Tree Planting Board: Comprised of 16 Morgan County residents.

Impacts:

• Help in lobbying for a State Legislature budget line item for tree planting assistance in 2007/08 state budget (Can the state plant 10 million trees in 2007/2008?)
  
• Involvement of WHIP, EQIP, and CREP to involve landowners in enhancing riparian zones.
  
• Encourage farmers who retire fields to replant. Help to get every farmer involved in some way.
  
• Increased tree seedlings sale for Eastern Panhandle Conservation District and Division of Forestry.
  
• Support to help sell the program through a mass media blitz.(Newspapers, radio and TV) Show the rest of the state that Morgan County values the importance of trees as a renewable resource, yet a vital part of our environment.
  
• Involvement of many outside agencies is key. Allegheny power, NRCS, DNR, watershed groups, local loggers and mills. Federal agencies.
  
• Benefits to tourism, logging industry, Chesapeake Bay program, and sustaining WV forests.
  
• Our biggest problem - Having the trees to plant and the money to do it.

Failure is not an option!!