Up bright and early on Saturday, Isabelle Shepherd, executive director of Alliance for Cape Fear Trees, told WHQR why they chose to show up in Murrayville.
“[It’s] one of the county’s most under-canopied neighborhoods due to unchecked development decades ago before tree protections were really put in place. So this area was clear-cut, and then what they did replant with was Bradford pears and Crepe myrtles, so really a rough canopy out here,” she said.
To change that, Shepherd said that now is the best time to plant trees…