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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ General Media Contact: Business Hours, 512-389-4406 ] April 20, 2010 Earth Day Tree Planting Ceremony Marks Donation of 65,000 Trees to Texas Parks and Wildlife AUSTIN -- To celebrate the 40th Earth Day, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director Carter Smith will be planting a 15-gallon Cedar Elm at the agency's Austin headquarters at 10 a.m. on April 22. The event will mark the donation of 65,000 trees made by the Apache Foundation Tree Grant Program to the agency. The trees will be planted at TPWD properties across the state, including six wildlife management areas, four state parks and one Fisheries Division site. All trees are native and include many different species, including various oaks, the Longleaf Pine, Pecan, Texas Ebony, Bigtooth Maple, and other varieties indigenous to Texas. These trees will aid in restoration of habitat, provide forage and cover for wildlife and enhance trails or facilities on agency sites. The Austin tree planting ceremony is part of several Earth Day events happening throughout the state. Various festivals, clean ups and tree plantings are scheduled in state parks across Texas during the month of April and May. The Apache Foundation is the charitable arm of the Apache Corporation, a multinational independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Houston. The tree grant program was developed by the Apache Foundation to offset carbon foot-printing, bring nature back to cities, restore native plant communities and provide habitat for wildlife. The tree donations range from seedlings, which are young plants; to saplings, young trees; to the more developed 5-gallon tree. Listed below are the tree planting sites, which include wildlife management areas, state parks and fisheries: TPWD PROPOSED PLANTING SITE QUANTITY TREE SPECIES SIZE Alazan Bayou WMA54,108 Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) Seedlings Chaparral WMA-Daughtrey WMAs100 Live Oak 5 gallon Estero Llano Grande SP31 See Below See Below 5 Anacahuita/Wild Olive (Cordia boissieri) 5 gallon 1 Rio Grande Ash (Fraxinus berlandieriana) 5 gallon 2 Sugar hackberry (Celtis laevigata) 5 gallon 1 Texas Ebony (Pithecellobium flexicaule) 5 gallon 7 Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) 5 gallon 10 Anacua (Ehretia anacua) 5 gallon 3 Montezuma Bald Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) 5 gallon 2 Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia) 5 gallon Goliad SP39 See Below See Below 5 Anacua (Ehretia anacua) 5 gallon 6 Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia) 5 gallon 7 Anacahuita/Mexican Olive (Cordia boissieri) 5 gallon 3 Spiny Hackberry/Granjeno (Celtis pallida) 5 gallon 9 Texas Ebony (Pithecellobium flexicaule) 5 gallon 3 Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) 5 gallon 3 Texas Sugarberry/Sugar Hackberry (Celtis laevigata) 5 gallon 3 Western Soapberry (Sapindus drummondii) 5 gallon Kerr WMA140 See Below See Below 25 Lacey Oak (Quercus glaucoides) 5 gallon 25 Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) 5 gallon 20 Texas Oaks (Quercus texana) 5 gallon 25 Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) 5 gallon 20 Pecan (Carya Illinoensis) 5 gallon 15 Redbud (Cercis canadensis) 5 gallon 10 Eve's Necklace (Sophora affinis) 5 gallon Lake Corpus Christi State Park15 Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) 5 gallon Lost Maples SP50 See Below 5 gallon Bigtooth Maple (Acer granditatum) 5 gallon Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) 5 gallon Texas Red Oak (Quercus buckleyi) 5 gallon Lacey Oak (Quercus glaucoides) 5 gallon Lower Neches WMA10,500 See Below See Below 4,300 White (Quercus alba), Willow (Quercus phellos), Water Oak (Quercus nigra) Bare Root Saplings 6,200 Live Oak (Quercus virginiana), Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia) Bare Root Saplings Old Tunnel WMA70 See Below See Below 20 Chinquapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) 5 gallon 20 Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) 5 gallon 10 Redbud (Cercis canadensis) 5 gallon 15 Pecan (Carya Illinoensis) 5 gallon 5 Eve's Necklace (Sophora affinis) 5 gallon Sea Center Texas465 See Below See Below 60 Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia) 5 gallon 50 Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) 5 gallon 60 Nuttall Oak (Quercus nuttallii) 5 gallon 50 Chestnut Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii) 5 gallon 5 Shumard (red) Oak (Q. shumardii) 5 gallon 15 Willow Oak (Q. phellos) 5 gallon 25 Redbud (Cercis canadensis) 5 gallon 200 Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) Saplings to 5 gallon TOTAL65,518 --- On the Net: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/calendar/ -30-