The nonprofit that donated 10-thousand tree seedlings for Saturday’s 25th annual Reforest the Bluegrass in Lexington has even larger targets. Chris Barton is president of Green Forests Work, which began planting trees on the sites of former coal mines in 2009. He said at first, they didn’t have a lot of success, but research helped solve the problem. This year, they’ve got an ambitious goal.
“So we kind of started off small with a few volunteers, and this year we'll be planting a million trees. We started planting in February, will finish in May and we're planting from Tennessee all the way up to Pennsylvania.”
