17 County 'Cool Trees' Planted in Perry Hall
Three Perry Hall locations received native shade trees with the help of a federal grant.
More than 950 native shade trees have been added to Baltimore County properties, including three locations in Perry Hall—and they're not just for decoration.
Workers recently planted the trees within 60 feet of the south and southwest sides of public buildings. The $500,000 cost was paid for with an Energy Efficiency Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, according to a county news release.
The trees are expected to provide $2 million in environmental benefits over the next 30 years by improving air and water quality and habitat, the release stated.
More than 600 of the 957 trees were planted outside county schools, and 17 were planted outside the following Perry Hall locations:
- Seven Oaks Elementary: three trees
- Joppa View Elementary: five trees
- Gunpowder Elementary: 12 trees
Tell us what you think about the program in the comments.
Patch Associate Regional Editor Bryan P. Sears contributed to this article.
VS
8:22 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
The trees are a lovely idea and very much appreciated. Air conditioned schools would be appreciated as well.
DB
9:06 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Good idea but I hope they were big trees at $526 a pop, seems to be another expensive project on the taxpayer's dime. In the good old days the community would have got together and did the same for free or with donations.
Tim
10:45 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
in the good ol' days, people actually gave a crap about one another.
Hugo Cabret
9:26 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Kamenetz and his fans use projects like this to pretend they are working for the good of the people and that they care about the environment. How about we focus on the reason the schools were built rather than painting a rosey picture with a few "cool trees" as gingerbread around the buildings?
Tim
10:44 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Outstanding, especially considering these schools don't have air conditioning...right?
Kim Ruark
1:51 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Parts of JVE are air conditioned - the offices, the library, some of the classrooms. Not the gym, the cafeteria, the rest of the classrooms. So little gets learned on hot days...
And while it would be nice to volunteer to go plant a tree, you would not believe the bureaucracy of trying to do such a thing on school grounds! Who's going to take care of it, water it, make sure it's an approved species, trim it if it's overgrown. Nonsense.
Eric Martin
8:20 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Trees are nice. But the federal government has no business spending tax dollars on tree planting. Since when is landscaping one of the defined powers granted to the central gov't under the Constitution? This is one of the many reasons why we are $16,000,000,000,000 in debt. Those trees were planted with money borrowed from China.
Tim
11:01 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
We have as much business planting trees as we do sticking our nose - and trillions of wasted dollars - in the Middle East. You know, making the same idiotic mistakes we made in Vietnam, and Russia made in the 70's and 80's.
Not to mention the millions of lives unfairly affected by these 'required wars', and the money it'll take to support these veterans and their families (and rightfully so) in the future.