Beatty Memorial Arbor Day Celebration
The Beatty Memorial Arbor Day Celebration is ClearWater's annual tribute to the importance of trees in our environment. The event has long-lasting effects on the beauty and environmental health of our community. For the past several years, our Arbor Day event has been folded into ClearWater's Riparian Conservation Program.
Read Planting It Forward: The Beatty's Arbor Day Gifts to the Future.
Arbor Day 2007 at Joseph A. Masullo Memorial Park
Bellefonte
Borough’s recently acquired Joseph A. Masullo Memorial Park located at the
foot of Reynolds Avenue and at the confluence of Logan Branch and Spring
Creek was the site of ClearWater’s 2007 Beatty Memorial Arbor Day event.
Over 50 volunteers, including 35 Bellefonte High School students braved the drizzly conditions and planted over 700 native trees, shrubs, and live dogwood stakes within the park, creating a much needed 25 foot wide riparian buffer along approximately 600 feet of stream. Thank you to Bellefonte Borough for making this great improvement to the waterfront!
Sue
Hannegan, Bellefonte Borough’s Assistant Manager, visited the site as the
planting was wrapping up and was impressed by the efficiency of the student
planters. "Bellefonte Borough appreciates the cooperation and donations
given to this worthy project and looks forward to the positive impact it
will have on the Spring Creek corridor and the newly acquired and newly
named Masullo Memorial Park. Another recommendation of the Bellefonte
Waterfront Master Plan has been accomplished and in the process we all
learned a little bit more about streambank conservation. We will definitely
be watching the progress of those live stake dogwood branches!"
Arbor Day 2006
During the week of May 1, 2006 fifty-five wonderful ClearWater volunteers planted nearly 800 native trees and shrubs along the headwaters of Spring Creek at the State College Elk Club golf course. This project is part of our Riparian Conservation Program and restored over 700 linear feet of streamside buffer in this impaired segment of Spring Creek.
Spring Creek at the State College Elks Country Club, before Arbor Day plantings and restoration.
Spring Creek at the State College Elks Country Club, after the addition of 800 trees and shrubs.
This year's event is co-sponsored by ELA
Group,
Inc., Engineers & Landscape Architects and SPE Federal Credit
Union.
Employees from ELA Group volunteer for a good cause.
Funding support also comes from the NiSource Environmental Challenge Fund, the PA Department of Environmental Protection Growing Greener grant program, the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, Western Pennsylvania Watershed Program. Some plant material was donated by Blackhawk Homestead Nursery and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Design services were donated by Ken Tamminga of the PSU Department of Landscape Architecture; planning and coordination was led by volunteer Louise Comas.
Special thanks to the State College Elks Club and golf course
superintendent Dave Williams for your partnership and dedication.
Planting List:
Acer rubrum
Betula nigra
Quercus palustris
Alnus serrulata
Cornus
amomum
Cornus sericea
Ilex verticillata
Physocarpus opulifolius
Salix exigua ssp. interior
Salix sericea
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Rosa palustris
Spirea tomentosa
Photos by Stacie Bird, Katie Ombalski,
and Jennifer Shuey.
Arbor Day 2004
Thirty people came out to Blue Spring Park in
Boalsburg on Saturday, May 1, 2004 to celebrate Arbor Day with ClearWater
Conservancy. Participants learned about
the history of Arbor Day, about the
importance of streamside buffers,
and about key figures in ClearWater’s
history, Alice and George Beatty.
Following presentations by guest speakers, the group planted 350 feet of stream buffer with 150 native tree and shrub seedlings. The streamside buffer will improve the quality of the stream by preventing erosion, filtering pollutants, and shading the stream, which flows into Spring Creek.
Thanks to all of the participants and to event
partners SPE Federal Credit Union and Centre Region Parks and Recreation.