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Apache Foundation donates trees for Arbor Day
Reports
1/28/2008
Furthering its goal of planting 1 million trees, Apache Foundation donated more than 4,000 trees for Arbor Day celebrations in Houston and Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 26.
In Houston, Apache employees and their families were part of a force of 500 volunteers who planted 3,000 trees on the medians along North Shepherd on Houston’s North Side.
In Louisiana, the foundation provided 650 Magnolias, Cypress trees, oaks, Green Ash trees and crape myrtles as well as 700 Cypress saplings at the Terrebonne Parish Tree Board’s first tree give-away at the Parish Library in Houma.
Apache Foundation is the philanthropic unit of Apache Corporation, a large independent oil and gas exploration and production company with headquarters in Houston. Since launching the program in 2006, Apache Foundation has donated nearly 300,000 trees that will be planted in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Wyoming by the end of the current tree-planting season.
“Apache Foundation is pleased to participate in these efforts by providing trees and through the volunteer efforts of our employees,” said Obie O’Brien, Apache’s director of community outreach. “Trees are an effective way to better our communities by reducing sound, producing oxygen, storing carbon, providing shade, reducing erosion and increasing property values.”
The mission of the Apache Foundation is to leave the world a better place through scientific study, practical application of environmentally-sound principles of land use, planning and tree-planting and other activities that will improve the human condition around the world, particularly in the areas in which Apache Corporation operates.
Non-profit organizations with tree-planting projects are encouraged to contact the Apache Foundation Tree Program by e-mail to apachetreeprogram@apachecorp.com or by calling (800) 746-1911 to submit detailed proposals. Apache Foundation will determine eligibility of requests.