People are making plans on what to grow this season, and LOLL Designs is trying to get their green thumb too. Earlier this afternoon, they took on an ambitious tree planting project along amity creek. LOLL Designs is planting over 1,000 native trees at Amity Creek near the Seven Bridges Road.

Volunteers, city crews, and employees from LOLL Designs banded together to plant over one thousand white pine trees. Also they are planting over one hundred white cedar trees. Clark Christensen a forester with the city of Duluth says this is a huge step to improving the biodiversity.

“Planting a tree is never just a one-time thing,” Christensen said. “There’s continual care and things that need to happen, especially in the urban setting. We’ll be coming back in the fall and bud capping them so the white pine don’t eat them. So it’s an ongoing project whenever you put a white pine in the ground You’re going to be coming back to protect it until it gets six feet tall.”

This isn’t the first-time employees from LOLL designs have planted trees at amity creek, and it won’t be the last. Hannah Zahn-Ness and Amy Syverson-Shaffer say this is their first time planting trees with LOLL designs.

“Being part of the local ecology has been part of LOLL’S history for a really long time,” Syverson-Shaffer said. “So getting out together, doing something important outside has always been something that we try to do.”

“We’re super excited to be out here,” Zahn-Ness said. “Definitely part of our mission here at LOLL is to get out and be with the community and do projects. So we’re excited to get started.”

Also volunteers from Rajala woods foundation wanted to help with the ecological conservation efforts to protecting the natural habitat and native plants. Kurt Anderson says the hundreds of trees planted will help prevent future damage to Amity Creek.

“In addition to providing good ecological habitat, they’re also going to help stabilize these soils, provide shade, slow runoff, and slow erosion,” Anderson said. “So, what we’re doing today is actually going to start benefiting the landscape today, but it’s going to last for decades, and centuries. Providing that benefit for Duluthians today, and well into the future.”

For more information about forest restoration in Duluth you can read more here. Also for other stories about Forestry you can read more here.