Local Boy Scout troop plants trees

Black Hills and Meyer spruce now landscape the lawn just east of town, and as they grow, the trees will block snow and winds as well.

About a dozen members of Boy Scout Troop 163 planted 265 spruce trees as well as aromatic sumac shrubs near Jamestown’s waste water treatment plant as part of 14-year-old Grant Curtis’ Eagle Scout project.

The plants will act as a living snow fence and will also beautify the area, Curtis said.

“When I come back, I want to see something that I did,” he said.

And he will if the trees grow as planned, said Vern Quam, city forester. Currently, the trees are 8 to 20 inches tall — a little too short to be seen from nearby Interstate 94. In 10 years, however, the trees should grow to 6-8 feet.

Quam said $2,000 in grants from the city beautification committee and a family forest grant paid for plants and materials.

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