2020 Tree Survey Summary
In Summer and Fall of 2020, several volunteer students carried out the first ever Future Forestry tree survey. This survey was conducted on past and present Future Forestry planting sites in Cape Coral, Florida. The survey team counted both mature and sapling trees...
200 New Trees Added Along Cape Roadways
More than 200 trees were planted in southeast Cape Coral over the weekend as part of an ongoing initiative to keep the Cape green as development continues. Non-profit volunteer organization Future Forestry saw 50 volunteers, including 25 from Cape Coral High School’s...
Cape Coral Tree Planters Say the Shade that Will Come Will Improve the City’s Future
“This is good news for our city and good news for our future,” Ringland said, and pointed to a grouping of 20-foot-tall trees nearby that the organization planted 15 years ago. “It takes a few years to really see the results, but the results will be phenomenal.” The...
Important Information and Dates on Our Upcoming Mass Plant Opportunities
Dear Future Forestry Friend, Welcome to the 2020 Planting season. We plant during the rainy season because we plant so many trees that we could not keep up with watering all of them on a regular basis. Skyline Self Storage is buying/sponsoring eight hundred Slash...
Volunteers Plant Thousands of Trees Along Veterans Parkway
Thousands of trees already planted, but there’s still more to go.Future Forestry is a volunteer group working to beautify Cape Coral. Founder Russell Ringland along with others have planted almost ten thousand trees along Veterans Parkway, hoping to add some shade to...
Future Forestry Foundation Volunteers Plant About 450 Trees in Cape Coral
About 40 Future Forestry Foundation volunteers planted more than 450 trees along Veteran's Parkway in Cape Coral on Saturday. View More from the News-Press:...
Fish Fry to Raise Funds for Forestry Project
The Urban Forestry project began in 2004. At the start of the rainy season every year, a couple hundred trees - usually about 200 - are planted along Veterans Parkway by volunteers. More than 7,000 trees have been planted. "It's a very simple goal," Ringland said. "To...
Rotary Tree Planting Project Continues Today
Russ Ringland, a Rotary Club member since 1998, said they will plant 1,000 native trees today. He said once the trees grow they will eventually become a good habitat for bald eagles. This is the sixth year the Rotary Club has planted trees along Veterans Parkway. Once...
Shade Trees to be Planted at Rotary Park
The Urban Forestry Project has planted about 3,400 trees in Cape Coral since its inception five years ago. It currently does about 2,000 per year. Ringland applied in January for the grant for Rotary Park, and the club was notified Wednesday that it had been awarded...
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