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In Oak Cliff, the tree-planting projects keep on coming.

From 9 a.m. until noon or so Friday, volunteers will join city park and recreation workers in adding 160 trees to Lake Cliff Park. An equal number will be planted near White Rock Lake in East Dallas.

“This is especially wonderful because the tree stock in Lake Cliff Park is getting old,” said Barbara Barbee, president of the Friends of Oak Cliff Parks. “We have not been replacing trees the way we should have so this will be a big plus.”

Plantings at the 108-year-old Lake Cliff Park will include canopy trees such as pecans, burr oaks and chinkapin oaks, along with such flowering understory trees as desert willows, Mexican plums, possumhaw hollys, red buds and rusty blackhaw viburnums.

The project is co-sponsored by the Dallas Mavericks; the accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which is paying for the irrigation system; and Arborilogical Services of Dallas, which will maintain the trees for three years.

The city’s reforestation fund is paying for the trees. When developers clear protected trees from a site, they can plant acceptable replacements nearby, donate trees to the city’s Park and Recreation Department, grant the city a conservation easement to protect selected property or pay into the fund.

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Lake Cliff Park in a ca. 1940 Works Progress Administration photo courtesy of the Dallas Municipal Archives.

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As part of the Dallas Mavericks Guard the Planet initiative, the Mavs launched Trees for Wins and committed to plant one tree in Reverchon Park for every Mavs win this season. For the Mavs 50 wins to date, 50 trees were recently planted by players Eduardo Najera and DeShawn Stevenson.  The trees will be cared for by the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department and Arborilogical Services, The Experts Your Trees Deserve.

“We are proud to share the park as our backyard with the Mavs and we want to thank the Mavericks for this beautiful gesture of planting trees,” said Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children President J.C. Montgomery, Jr.

“The Mavs support for this project expresses their corporate leadership as well as their sound principles in being stewards of our urban forest,” said Arborilogical Services, The Experts Your Trees Deserve President Steve Houser. Reverchon Park offers many leisure and recreational programs as well as baseball fields, basketball and tennis courts and an accessible children’s playground.