Source: MOUNTAIN XPRESS, 4/14/18


When Danu Macon of Barnardsville was 21 years old, he made a commitment to himself that every year he would plant at least one more tree than he had the year before. “That started easy enough because I planted 30 trees that first year,” says Macon. “But I’ve been building up. Last year, I talked my family into reforesting a whole 2.5 acres of their farm up in Maryland. We planted 1,100 trees. So this year I have to plant 1,101.”

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