Jackie Cole, with the city’s tree committee, hands a live oak sapling to Salvador Ramos. The city is giving away 2,000 trees from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at 26th and Ball streets.
Nearly 2,000 trees will be given to island residents this weekend to help replant the trees killed by Ike’s storm surge.
The tree giveaway will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Galveston City Hall parking lot at 26th and Ball streets and again Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. if there are trees left over.
TreeFolks, the Apache Foundation and Randalls supermarkets, along with the city’s Tree Committee and the Galveston Island Tree Conservancy, organized the event.
Besides live oak saplings, the TreeFolks brought magnolias, sweet gum, loblolly pines, bald cypress, Mexican plum and cedar elms.
