Students repot native trees at Aldersgate Retreat Center after the Palisades fire destroyed Seven Arrows and blackened nearby redwoods. The nursery activity supports TREEAMS, which seeks to plant 5,000 trees over three to five years in scorched areas of Altadena, the Palisades, and Malibu. Students tend roughly two-year-old trees until they can be replanted in schools, parks, and homes affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires. The program was conceived by Jane Goodall and Margarita Pagliai, founders connected to Seven Arrows and Little Dolphins Preschool. The planting provides a hands-on way for children and families to give back and heal after difficult losses.
"The effort is part of TREEAMS - trees and dreams - which aims to see local kids plant 5,000 trees in the next three to five years in scorched areas of Altadena, the Palisades and Malibu. Students will tend to the roughly 2-year-old trees until they can be replanted in schools, parks and homes affected by the Palisades as well as the Eaton fire."
"Students in those places "have lived through something very difficult," Pagliai said at the planting event on Tuesday. "Many are still hurting, many families are still rebuilding. TREEAMS gives students a way to act now, to give back and to help their communities heal with their own hands.""
"Last year, the Palisades fire destroyed their elementary school, Seven Arrows. The charred campus is around the corner. Soon there are 30 repotted toyon, California sycamore and western redbud trees forming a new nursery at the Aldersgate Retreat Center, where the blaze had lapped at the back of a chapel and blackened towering redwoods."
"Goodall, a dedicated conservationist, was set to plant the first tree at the initial TREEAMS kickoff last October at EF Academy. Then just 15 minutes before the event began, organizers learned she had passed away. "Instead, we planted it in her hon"
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