Celebrate Arbor Day by planting a free oak tree. For the seventh year in a row, the Rock River Trail Initiative will distribute 5,000 trees along the Rock River corridor April 18-21.
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OGLE COUNTY — Celebrate Arbor Day by planting a free oak tree. For the seventh year in a row, the Rock River Trail Initiative will distribute 5,000 trees along the Rock River corridor April 18-21.
Chad Pregracke, president of Living Lands and Waters’ One Million Trees program, has graciously donated these 65,000 trees to the Rock River Trail Initiative and our river over the last seven years.
The late Frank Schier, Founder of the RRTI, was a big proponent of the tree planting program and was personally involved in the distribution of the trees in past years.
The Rock River Trail Initiative established a National Water Trail along the 320 miles of the Rock River, from its source above the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin to its mouth at the Quad Cities in Illinois. This was achieved March 11, 2013, when Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis made the designation including the Rock River Trail in the National Water Trail System. The Rock River Water Trail was the 10th trail in the nation to achieve such a distinction.