A group effort between Keep Levelland Beautiful and South Plains College is bringing a large number of trees to the area. The KLB program was the recipient of the 2022 Apache Corporation Tree Grant. As the recipient of the grant, the Houston-based Apache Corporation is providing 100 fivegallon trees to the KLB program which has an estimated worth of $3,500. Partnering with SPC, the trees will be planted at the South Plains Campus Allied Health Building on Clubview Drive in Levelland.
Members of the Keep Levelland Beautiful committee and the SPC Grounds Maintenance crew will be planting the trees.
Planting begins October 28 at 12 p.m.
The trees are already in Levelland as they arrived October 12.
A press release with the information states the trees will beautify the SPC campus as they will be an invaluable natural resource. The trees will beautify our neighborhoods, provide habitat for wildlife and even help to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
The Apache tree grant program was launched in 2005 and has donated more than $5 million trees to a wide variety of nonprofit and government organizations in the U.S.
Those locations include cities, counties, schools, parks, universities, youth associations, wildlife refuges and community groups.