COUNTYWIDE : Clubs’ Tree-Planting Campaign Begins

Rotary Clubs from Southern California plan to plant 50,000 to 75,000 trees in Orange County by the end of this year.

To kick off the program, Rotary Club officials gathered Wednesday morning on Lukens Mountain in Angeles National Forest to plant several hundred pines and cedars in 2-gallon and 5-gallon containers. The clubs hope to plant 250,000 trees by the end of 1991, said George Grossman, district governor for Rotary Clubs in Orange County.

“This is part of a worldwide effort that we’re calling ‘Preserve Planet Earth,’ Grossman said.

In Orange County, two of the major plantings by the 55 clubs will be in Laguna Niguel and around the Oso Reservoir in Mission Viejo.

“Our international president (Paulo Costa from Sao Paulo, Brazil) was saying today . . . this is for the children of the future,” Grossman said. “We’ll be gone by the time these trees are big but we’ve destroyed so many trees, we’ve got to replenish them.”