GROUP READY TO PLANT REDWOODS ABOVE PARK.Byline: Daily News Recovering drug addicts will plant 200 redwood trees on a mesa overlooking the city's new central park in a program to rehabilitate both human volunteers and the landscape. The nonprofit Redwoods Recovery Group, based in Newbury Park, will begin work Sunday on land overlooking the 137-acre park site on Bouquet Canyon Road. The redwood trees - giant sequoias native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. - will be planted at various stages of maturity, creating a grove on the fringe On The Fringe is a popular Pakistani television show on Indus Music. It is hosted and scripted by the eccentric television host and music critic, Fasi Zaka and directed by Zeeshan Pervez. of the new park and providing a backdrop for trails planned by the city of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . The volunteer crews will work with the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency, which owns the land, to develop a fertilization, irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. and maintenance program. The water agency is leasing the land to the city for use as a regional park. The first six trees will be planted this weekend. Now 6 feet tall in 15-gallon containers, the trees ultimately will grow as high as 325 feet and as big in diameter as 30 feet, said Tim Wheeler Tim Wheeler (born 4 January, 1977) is the guitarist and vocalist for Ulster rock band Ash. He formed the band with Mark Hamilton and they were originally called Vietnam. Tim can be seen playing a Korina Gibson Flying V in almost all of Ash's videos. , the water agency's building and grounds maintenance supervisor. The redwood trees grow 3 to 5 feet a year. The Redwoods Recovery Group uses paid workers and volunteers who are recovering alcoholics and ex-drug addicts to plant trees. The Bouquet Canyon Grove will benefit the community on many levels, said John McDonald, the organization's president and chairman of the board. Residents of local recovery houses and violence-prevention programs regard it as an honor to plant the grove, he said. ``Participants must remain clean and sober to continue their participation in this project.'' |
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