South Hero community helps with forest restoration project on Earth Day [Video]

IN HONOR OF EARTH DAY… A VERMONT COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER TODAY… VOLUNTEERING TO CLEAN UP ONE OF THEIR LOCAL PARKS AND RESTORE ONE OF ITS FORESTS. NBC5’S TYLER BORONSKI TAKES US TO SOUTH HERO… TO SHOW US THE HARD WORK…THE COMMUNITY PUT IN… REMOVAL AND RESTORATION WERE THE FOCUS HERE AT THE SOUTH HERO RECREATION PARK… THIS IS WHERE VOLUNTEERS DUG UP AND GOT RID OF SPECIES CAUSING HARM TO THE FOREST… WHILE OTHERS FOCUSED ON PUTTING THESE TUBES DOWN…TO HELP NEW TREES GROW. WITH EARTH DAY UPON US… VOLUNTEERS… GETTING THEIR BOOTS DIRTY… <CLEAN UP> AND RIGHT TO WORK… CLEANING UP THE SOUTH HERO RECREATION PARK. 03:38:43:13- 03:38:47:14 <ASHLEY WILLIAMS, VOLUNTEER, DURATION: , “4 SECONDS, “IT’S IMPORTANT FOR US TO PITCH IN AND KEEP EVERYTHING HERE IN OUR ECOSYSTEM HEALTHY.”> FOR SEVERAL YEARS…THE SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST HAS BEEN WORKING ON A FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT IN THE TOWN… 03:26:47:22- …