Penny Pines Project

Your garden club can participate in a meaningful and practical conservation project by contributing $68.00 to a Penny Pine plantation. These donations are used by the US Forest Service or the Pennsylvania State Forester to replant burnt or otherwise damaged trees. Seedlings are replacements for trees native to the particular area, not necessarily of the pine variety. All donations will be used in Pennsylvania.

Under a Conservation agreement, the Forest Service will do the planting, using your donation together with Federal funds, and will provide to the plantation the same protection from fires, insects, and disease given other forested areas.

The plantations are a part of the regular National and State Forest reforestation program planted on burned-over and brush-covered areas which are potentially productive timberlands. Planting sites are selected by the Supervisor of each National or State Forest. These plantations provide soil protection, watershed protection, soil stabilization, future harvestable timber, as well as beauty and shade for recreation.

Contributions may be made from year to year, but must be a minimum of $68.00 (or multiples of). Checks made payable to "GCFP ", with "Penny Pines" on the memo line, and mailed to:

Grace Mitchell

GCFP Penny Pines Chairman

130 Statement Ave

Washington, PA 15301-3147

A completed donation form must be included.

Penny Pines Awards will be presented each year at the NGC Convention to States which have donated the greatest number of plantings and whose clubs demonstrated the most ingenuity in promoting education in conservation by creating public awareness of the need to protect and manage our National Forest resources.

Let's all publicize our objectives and establish even more Penny Pines Plantations for the reforestation of our forests!

For details on the Penny Pines Program visit our National Garden Clubs, Inc. website at: http://www.gardenclub.org/SpecialProjects/PennyPines.aspx

For information on the CAR Penny Pines Poster Youth Activities Contest, Please use this link to the Youth Contests page.

2007 PENNY PINES CERTIFICATES

* Two donations

DISTRICT I

The Country Gardeners*

Four Seasons Garden Club of Kennett Square

Little Gardeners of Malvern

Spade and Trowel

GC of Springfield*

Suburban GC

Wayne Woods GC

DISTRICT II/III

Emmaus GC*

Hazleton GC

Parkland GC*

Pottstown GC

GC of Reading*

DISTRICT IV

Chambersburg GC*

The Green Thumb GC

GC of Harrisburg*

Littlestown Area GC

Penn Cumberland GC*

Shiloh GC

GC of York

DISTRICT V

McEwensville GC

Mifflin GC

Standing Stone GC

Susquehanna GC

DISTRICT VI

Bedford Co GC

Blair GC

GC of Johnstown*

Somerset GC*

Spade and Trowel GC

Weeders and Seeders GC

DISTRICT VII

GC of Forest Hills

Home Gardeners Guild*

Landscape Design Soc of WPA

YWCA GC of McKeesport*

Murrysville GC

Pucketos GC

DISTRICT VIII

District VIII

Albion Garden and Civic Club

Cambridge GC*

Clarion Co GC*

Emporium GC*

Kane GC*

Meadville GC*

Presque Isle GC

Titusville GC

Warren GC*

Waterford GC

DISTRICT IX

District IX

Butler GC

Fox Chapel GC

Greybrooke GC

Ingomar GC*

Kittanning GC

Moon Township GC*

Southern Butler Co GC

Shaler GC

Tusca Ridge GC

DISTRICT X

District X

Charleroi GC*

Giant Oaks GC

Great Meadows GC

Martha Washington GC

GC of Munhall

Uniontown Flower Club

DISTRICT XI

Four Lanes End GC

Norristown GC

Old York Road GC*

Outdoor Gardeners

Swedesford GC*

Tohickon GC

Trevose Horticulture Society

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

June Johnson D-IV

Sharon Brown D-IV

The Beall Family D-IX

Pat Hartman D-VI