What: Plant a Pine is an easy way to help Florida State Parks get greener!   

  Why: Trees play a key role in our environment, cleaning the air, filtering water, and providing      needed habitat for hundreds of species of insects, and other animals and plants. Trees are an  integral part of our ecosystems and they help reduce stress and allow us to connect with nature  and provide a calming effect.  Imagine a time when you walked through a park among towering  trees…that’s why we started the Plant a Pine campaign. 

 Plant a Pine is focused on Longleaf Pine which are native to the Southeast and now cover an  estimated 3% of their original habitat. They have long been prized for their commercial use in  building houses, ships, and railroads and their resin used for making turpentine. Mature longleaf  ecosystems support more than 30 endangered and threatened species, including red-cockaded  woodpeckers, gopher tortoises, and indigo snakes. Regular burning to restore their natural rhythms  enables longleaf pine to become rich, stable ecosystems. Longleaf pines are fire-adapted and  dependent on burning which stabilizes and enriches the soil.

 When: Plant a Pine kicked off on Earth Day, April 22, 2020 with our goal of planting 100,000 trees  by Earth Day 2021. We have blown through our 2-month cumulative goal of $20,000 and are now working towards our 3-month cumulative goal of $30,000. Help us plant 100,000 trees!

How: Donate $1 for each tree.  It’s that easy!  Most trees are seedlings and planted in coordination with the Florida Park Service in park areas identified for restoration efforts.

Groups interested in supporting hands-on tree planting projects through the Employees in State Parks program can contact Julia Gill Woodward, Chief Executive Officer. Tree planting projects are limited to specific parks, targeting restoration projects, and restricted planting seasons.

Recognition: Donations to Plant a Pine may be dedicated to the memory of a loved one or in honor of another person who are recognized below. Thank you for caring about Florida State Parks and giving to our Plant a Pine campaign. 

June 2020

Adam Cecchini
Alan Smiley
Dr. Alfons Kujawski
All the black lives lost to police violence
All the Good Ones in My Life
All the Dads, Uncles and Grandpas
All the Fathers in my Life: Dad, Grandfather, Grandpa, Uncle Bob & Uncle Scott
All Veteran Fathers
Alo and Luis, two great fathers!
Angelo G. Resciniti
Ann Mallen, Christy Ziegler, Margaret Tatkow
Annabel Bratton Walker
Atticus
Arthur Bides
Arthur Buser & Jarrett Crawford
Arthur & Lucas
Au & Kia Vuong
Barbara Patten and Ginny Skelton
Barry P. O'Brien
Dr. Barnard Russell
Ben Reynolds
Ben P. Roberts, Jr.
Bernard Lee
Bill Owens
Billy Joe Nunn
Black Lives Matter
Bob Carter, Charles Foreman, Shane Foreman, Tommy Thompson
Bobby Peel, TJ Peel, Lynn Gammon & Ronnie Hallmark
Brian Huber
 Brian M. Stout
Bruce Genunzio
Bruce Stauffer
Caiden Hanna & Zadie Blair
Carl and Louis Hillman
Carl Hillman
Charlie Reinhart
Charles G. Tilman, Dean A. Decatur Jr., Jason Brown, Lloyd Blackwood
Charles M. Tilman
Charles B. Smith
Charlie Reinhart
Christy Coleman
Clyde Craven Davis - My Dad
Cole Turner
Cowboy AKA David Lee Caudill Sr. 1955-2019
Dad from the Paps
Dadyo aka Rob Drew
Daine Irving Abbott
Dale Thompson
Dan McGrath
Darryl Baker
David & Patrick Chapman
David Dinsbeer
David Gaboardi
Rev. David Gill
David Lee Keith
David Lewis Rosenbaum
David Lipp
David Man
David Matthew Herold
David, Mike and Shannon Talty
David Spaleta
Dennis Durrer
Donald B. Ten Eyck
Donald R. Neuenschwander
Donald Welch
Donna & Gene Raub
Earl L. Kidder
Ed Gartner
Ed Laake 
Ed Mueller
Ed Vedrin
 Edmund L. Ferree
Edward Brown
Edward Mallen
 Eduardo Vilchez Jr.; Keith Brescher (RIP); Dave Christiansen Sr.; Eduardo Vilchez Sr.; John Leslie Brescher (RIP)
 Edward Loughlin
 Ellsworth Schultz
Elmer Groom
 Elmer 'Bud' Johnson
Enrico G. Gonzalez
 Eric Reinhart

Robert Dunning
Robert M. Hall and Robert C. Hall
Robert R. Martin
Robert Nelson
Robert C. Pembleton
Robert H. Phillips, Sr.
Robert D. Christopher 
Robert J. Rizzo Jr.
Roger Paul Roberts
Roger Soper
Roland (Bud) Schafer
Ron Scoles
Russell M. Burns
Rusty Collins
Ryosuke Sakai
Samuel Augustus and Anne M. Morley
Samuel W. Cobean, USN Ret. LTCDR
Scott Christie
Scott Milligan
Scott, Heit and Martinez Fathers
Sol Reif
Stephen Resotko
Stephen L. Williams
Steve Delwiche
Steve Fisher
Steve Funnell
Steve Mani
Steve McGue
Steve McNeil
Steve Robitaille
Steve Rodgers, our Dad
Steve Tyre
The Best Father, PopPop, and Husband Steven R. Lowe
Steven Misiaszek
Tim Carney Sr.
Terry Sikes
The Forests of Florida
The Greatest Generation who fought for the freedom we have today -
In Memory of David Sablotsky & Donald Dorshimer
The Inspired
The One Piece Plan& Tom
The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines who served at Fort Clinch
Shona, Blythe, Brooke, and Bo 
Theodore Borbidge Jr. 
Theodore Borbidge St. 
Thomas Anthony Schaad, Sr.
Thomas Kane
Tim Carney, Sr. 
Tim Gosney
To my dad: Bill Dentzau
Todd Swords
Tom Troublefield
Tommy Horner
Tony Moten
Travers Robbins MD
Trent Edwin Strate
Treston E. Vause
UF School of Forest Resources & Conservation
Uncle Felly
Vernon H. Bartley
Victor Lagrotta
Vincent & Anna Cina
Waldo Ramon Casanova
Walter and Dixie Gilbert 
Wayne Conn
Wil Ivins
Will Kohn
Willem van Voorthuijsen
William Baylis
 William "Dat Guy" Matthewman 
William and Helen Meerphol 
William C. Dove  
William Henry Jones
William R. Pador
William Riddle
William Shaner, GINS volunteer
Wythe Davis Sims II

Aaron Marshal Wandelt
Abigail Dowd Greensboro, NC
Aimee Brent and Rosemarie Hagan, My loving niece and my Sister
Albert G. Snow
Aldous Herring
Aleks and Niko
Ali Faylo
Alice & John McHugh
Alice M. Franke
All Moms
All the awesome moms in my life.
All the Covid victims.
All those who perished from COVID-19
All you Mothers
Andrew J. Wren
Ann Mallen, Katy Redwitz, Christy Ziegler, Margaret Tatkow, Annalee Mallen
Anna Tohal
Annabel Bratton Walker
Anne (nee Tague) Vaszily
Anne DeBusk, Franklin L. DeBusk
Antonio Fornes
Ãric Andersen
AtticusAtticus Herndon
Audrey and Merrill Carter
Audrey Kelsey, Sophia Crane, Marjorie Wright
Backus Family
Barbara K Gailmard
Barbara Symes
Bertha
Bess Fanning, a great Mom!
Betty L Morton
Bianca, Alec, Alexa, Sofia and Natasha
Billy "Hillbilly" Fizz
Birthday honors for 3 May 2020
Blanca R Rodriguez
Bobby Jean Jones
Bonnie McLellan
Brian Archer
Brock MacCallum Cusick
Brock MacCallum Cusick
Bruce Benidt
Byron, Viola and Robert Smith
C. J. Barber
Carita Rothing
Carol Petro
Carol Pitman
Carolyn
Carolyn Lockett
Catherine Joanne Ray
Cathy Beacher
Cecile Vincent and Velma Carden and Marie Laure Bedard
Chanel Lea Brooks
Charlotte Wollermann
Chris Patton
Christine Folwell
Cindy Rountree
Cisco and Gabby
Clara Boyas
Claudia Drinnon
Colleen Thorburn
Connie D. Micklavzina
Cooper Levey-Baker
Cpl. Lee Sharp, FL DOC
Curtis Lafayette Johns
Dan Lukas
Dan Pollets
Dan Vongsa
Danie D. Viers Mannon
Daniel Doebler
Danielle Moule
Dawson Engstrom
Dayna Snell
Deanna Holman
Debbe Jackson
Debra and Jim Fickes
Debra Angell my Wife
Democratic State Rep. Kristin Jacobs
Diane Elizabeth Evitt
Dolores Aldinger (Nana)
Donna Paglialonga
Donna, Morgan, Sophia, Carol, Mary H, Mary M, Pauline
Dr. Anthony Fauci - for keeping us safe
Dr. Joseph P. Bunn
Dr. Reshma Patel
Earth

Edie Hicks
Edie Oliver
Edward Laake
Edward Mosblech
Egan Evan Malagon
Ellen Mielock
Elora and Celina
Erik Krieger
Esther Bachman
Evan C. Earle, Jr.
Faith Frankel
Florene Maupin
Florida Moms
Florida State Parks Foundation
Florida's Park Rangers
Florida Trail Association
Florida wildlife
Florida Wildlife
Frances Fisher
Fred and Phyl Coburn Family
Future generations
Geoffrey Yasuo Nishida
George and Tina Creais
Gerald Lanier
Gil Ziffer, State Parks Foundation
Gina M Striby
Gladys T. Senft
Grace Gill, Ann Elise Gill, Mckenzie Gill, Albie Gill
Grammy Gladys
Guenther Pfiester
Hannah Derkatsch Blair gone too soon
Harriet Miller
Harvey Rodgers 111
Heike VandeMark
Henry & Matilda Irvin
Herman Leslie Hingson
Holly Fulford
Honest Earl Findley Nelson
Ian Nicholas Peron, my son 9/16/85-6/7/19
Ian Peron
Ilma Farris
In loving memory of Gordon Piper
In loving memory of Nellie and Fred Schermerhorn  and Ronald and Sandra Shadick
In memory of Audrey Radford Herrin, love from her 7 daughters
In memory of George Wilkins Harper Jr.
In memory of Olivia Berger
In memory of our mothers Grace Lee Hem and Ella Sue Tripp
In Memory of Vern Blamer
Isaac Gourley
Isabel C Mederos-Rodriguez
Iva Petkova-Cutler
Jacoba Neitzel
James A. Hobbs
James Alan Taylor III
Jami D. Spindler (my mom)
Jana Mastrogianis
Jane Allen
Janine David Hannan
Jasmine Lee
Jean T. Hoyt
Jennifer Hoffman Jones
Jennifer Santora
Jennifer Strate
Jennifer Suzanne Walter
Jessica Modriskey
Jill W Smith
Jim and Marjorie Crawford
Jim DeGrandi
Jim Edwards
JJ Kernan Family, Lance Davis Family, Tony Laron Stalling
Joan Ames
Joanie Botts - Grandmother, Mother and Wife
Joanne Pischiera and Cristina Meyer
John Harvey (Ian)
John Woodward, Elliot Gill, Josie Gill, Mark Woodward
Joseph H Smith
J-squared
Jubilee, Clementine, and Amelia
Judd Patterson
Jude and JP Swanson
Judy Glass Teaster

Julie Hamilton, Robbi Bain, Jenn Reddin, Carmen Hamilton
June
June Marhefka
Karen Webb
Karen Woodington
Kathleen Ashman Boccumini
Kathrine Conboy
Kathy and Don Nowacki
Kathy Caulk
Kathy Lott, Teresa Lott, Kara Butler, Judy Butler, Mary Scala, Olga Lott
Kathy Loud
Katy Dunn
Kelley Smith Organek
Kelly Beacher
Kelsey Gayhartt
Ken Blaisse
Kevin Simmler
Kris Meyer
Kristin Jacobs
Lan Esposito
Lanea
Laraine and Harold McGahee
Larry and Charlotte Kowitch
Larry Hampton
Lee Anne Duval
Leonor Trujillo
Leslie H Elder
Linda Simmons
Lupe's Mother
Lynne Rosenthal
Lytle family
Mac Benford
Madeleine Wilson, Valentina Molini, Betty Wilson
Mae H. Rooy
Mama Joanne Davis
Marcy Q Ryan - Loving Mother and Wife
Margret Irwin
Maria Roloff
Marie Brooks
Marilyn Capozziello
Marilynne Allen
Marjorie
Marjorie Wonderly
Martin C Foster
Mary Ann Seberry Osborne
Mary Kay Morrissey
Mary McCarren
Mary Mercadante
Mary Ogburn Riley
Mary Ranney Hagenbuch
Maryann Novak
Matthys, for his love of trees!
Max Goodhart
Melinda Lewis
Melissa Marszal
Mimi, GG Schafer, Grandma Burr
Mom
Mommyshay
Mother Earth
Mother Nature
Mr. David Riemer
Mum Durbin the best Mum-in-law Our anniversary May 22
My beautiful daughter, Christy
My departed wife Nancy and my daughter Lily
My grandmother, FL Native, Mary Virginia Handley
My husband in Heaven Larry R. Sullivan
My Little Angel in Heaven
My Mom Irina Long
My Mom, Dad & sister George, who all loved camping
My Wife Ursula
Nancy Deemer
Nancy Fowler
Nancy Rose Denslow
Nancy Tye
Nancy W. Spofford, Robert N Spofford
Nature
Nelida Celano
Niki Fiedler
Nilo Picazo and Great-grand-kids Ellyana and Landyn Pineiro
Nilza Kallos
Nita Mercier
Julia Heuler

NJ ASM & Susan Kearney
Our Mom, Emma Howe
Our Mom, Laura Smith
Our Mother, Mary Carruthers
Ours Moms, Marie and Mary
Pamela Jennette
Patricia Jean Altzner
Patsy Jane Mendola
Patti Teate
Pauletta Calhoun
Pauline Gasso
Peg and Don Butler
Peg Sauber, Patricia Ryan
Peggy
Peggy D. Metzger
Pete Egan
Peter and Joy Rogalle
Philip F Deaver
Phyllis Dair and family mothers
President Barack Obama
Rose Marie and Richard
Rebekah and Khloe Logan, Max Oquendo and Lou Masters
Ricky Touchet
Robert Karr
Roberta Ferree
Ron and Ruth Berline
Rose and Harris
Rosmarie Cannell
Ruth, Colene, Niki, Janie and Granny
Ryan Preston
Sally Palmi - Madre Gramma
Sandi Sylver
Sandra L Fobb
Sara Stout
Sheila Aref
Shirley Wright
Sigred Chasey
SJ Swartz
Skipper Fossett
Spud Web
St. Joseph Academy Graduating Seniors in 2020
State parks near Venice
Stephanie Beacher
Stephen
Stephen Eric Cochran
Susan Bickings
Susan Blake Gonzalez
Susan Farnsworth Ehlers
Susan Gelb
Susan Morris
Susan Tremper
Suzanne Marszal
Suzi Rothstein
Sylvia Kleinman
Tess
The Children of Florida
The Flora & Fauna of Florida
The forests of Florida
The future of the beautiful state of Florida
The Gander Family
The Glory of God and His Son Who made all things, Jesus Christ.
The Marshall and Prior Families
The memory of Shirley Myrant
The Russo Family
The State of Florida
The Universe
The universe, may it breathe well and keep us all safe.
The Ward Family
The Water
Thelma Bray
Thomas W Watson, Jr. RIP
To Grandma Fran and Great Grandma Spain
Tomorrow's Stewards
Tony Azevedo
Trisha Goforth
Valerie Leitner
Victims of Covid 19
Virginia M Reagan
Wendolin Barahona-Petro
Wilbur (WD) Griffin, deceased, pine tree farmer
Wildlife
Willard Christal
Yuliia Kriuchkova
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April 2020