Volunteers help load trees during a distribution event hosted by Trees For Houston, a nonprofit that is constructing a headquarters at 2001 W. 34th St. in Oak Forest. (Photo by Gabe Castillo, Trees For Houston)
Trees For Houston has helped plant 600,000 trees in the region since its inception in 1983. Perhaps that number would be much higher if the nonprofit organization had not been nomadic during much of that time.
Now Trees For Houston is planting roots â in Oak Forest â and hopes to grow even faster and provide even more shade and fresh air across the city.
Executive director Barry Ward said Trees For Houston has raised $6.5 million during the last year and is in the process of purchasing the 1.5-acre property at 2001 W. 34th St., where it plans to construct an environmentally friendly headquarters that will include a main office, indoor and outdoor education center and tree farm. The organization had cycled through several homes during the last four decades, Ward sa
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