State legislators from around the Great Lakes gathered in Bayfront Festival Park on Monday for a special tree planting ceremony.

The ceremony commemorates the annual meeting of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus, which was held at Pier B Resort Hotel in Duluth, and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Trees Initiative aims to plant 250 million trees by 2033.

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus is nonpartisan organization of state and provincial legislators from both the states and Canada. The organization is passionate and working towards policies that will protect and restore the great lakes St. Lawrence River basin and its surrounding environments for many years to come.

“I’m just really proud that we were able to do this at the same time that we have legislators across the Great Lakes that are meeting here today. And I hope that if it’s one takeaway that they will see what we’re doing here, and we’ll go back to their communities and do the same,” said Minnesota Senator Mary Kunesh.

For more information, go to Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus (csgmidwest.org)