Volunteers, Atlantic Parks & Rec Personnel & Trees Forever Representatives gather gather to plant trees at the Schildberg Recreation Area Campground in Atlantic, Iowa (6-7-2024)

(Atlantic, Iowa) – A little more than a dozen volunteers and Parks and Rec personnel gathered at the Schildberg Recreation Area RV campgrounds this (Friday) morning, in Atlantic, to help plant a variety of 32 trees. Local Trees Forever representative Dolly Bergmann, said Alliant Energy provided funding for the project in the form of a $3,000 grant.

Trees Forever also made the trees available through a grant. Bergmann said City employees did some prep work before today’s (Friday’s) tree planting.

She informed the volunteers (and for that matter, anyone who wishes to plant trees on their own property), of the right and wrong ways to plant a tree.

Schildberg RV Park playground

RV’s fill the camping pads at the Schildberg Rec Area RV Park (6-7-24)

Schildberg Campground Shelter House

She advised putting three-to four-inches of mulch for each tree, but not right up against it. “Leave a little doughnut hole around [the tree].” City employees will water and eventually place stakes and protective barriers around the trees to keep the deer away. The RV Pads at the Schildberg Campground were mostly full this (Friday) morning, with campers taking advantage of the Schildberg Recreational Trail, the fire pits, playground and shelter-house amenities. (Ric Hanson – Photos)