EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The City of El Paso is teaming up with 915 Treekeepers to bring 500 trees to parks across the city.
Emigdio Gonzalez, the Assistant Director for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, explained the strategy behind the tree planting. He said 915 Treekeepers is an outreach program that aims to improve tree canopy in neighborhoods.
“We fill in both for aged and decaying trees that fail inside a park and look for opportunities to put these trees where our insufficient trees were planted originally,” he said…