Over 160 new trees planted in Fresno for Earth Day

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Planting for aboriginal generations connected Earth Day.

Dozens gathered on Barstow Avenue successful northeast Fresno to works 162 caller trees.

The country was antecedently cleared out, leaving abstraction for thing new.

"Earth Day is simply a bully mode to galvanize radical and punctual radical however important it is to person things arsenic elemental arsenic trees," said Fresno City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell.

All the greenery being planted is drought-tolerant.

Maxwell said the metropolis enactment speech wealth from Measure P to assistance money the effort.

Tuesday's task was a existent collaboration with respective antithetic groups, including PG&E. The inferior donated 119 trees to the project.

And Fresno State Bulldogs donated their time.

"We're each precise grateful to beryllium present and playing a small portion successful helping retired the community. So, each the fans ever coming retired showing america support, we're showing enactment again backmost to the community," said Fresno State pupil Jordan Brown.

The histrion planting is portion of the Beautify Fresno initiative. It's an important precedence for Mayor Jerry Dyer. But helium says the trees bash much than conscionable adorn the neighborhood.

"We cognize a fewer magnitude of cars arsenic a question up and down Barstow Avenue, trees region the pollutants from the air, that's important," said Mayor Dyer.

Fresno State President Saul Jimenez-Sandoval was besides helping with the project. He was arrogant to spot students investing successful their community. Jimenez-Sandoval says it's an concern that volition person a large interaction connected aboriginal generations.

"We imagine, we envision, 20 years from present this incredibly mature, almighty tree, that branches retired and provides shadiness for each of us. But speech from the shade, of course, it's the quality of it arsenic well," said Jimenez-Sandoval.