Community Plants Final Trees of the Millennium Forest on Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Artists, students, environmentalists, refuge personnel, and politicians united today to plant the final trees of the Millennium Forest on Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (PLNWR) in Columbia, North Carolina. The final Atlantic White Cedar (AWC) was planted in the Millennium Forest by Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr. More than 300 students from Tyrrell County Public Schools began planting the last of the 1,000 trees before the 10 a.m. commemoration.

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