4/26/2018 0 Comments TRECYcle 2018TRECYCLE is my annual spring cycling adventure along trails and through communities in Ohio to raise awareness and support for planting native trees to replace ash trees that have been lost to the Emerald Ash Borer. TRECYCLE 2018 on April 27,28,29 is a 180 mile route through Greene, Fayette and Ross Counties along the newly renamed Paint Creek Trail. My plans are to ride 75 miles a day the first and last day and a more leisurely 30 miles on Saturday to be joined by my wife Michele and daughter Madeleine, and her fiance Luke Kraus. $2,000 has been raised this year through an online fund drive to plant 15 trees in Jamestown, Chillicothe and Washington Court House. This all began back in 2015 with a seven-day ride with trees donated to seven different parks along the Ohio Erie trail. Since then nearly $6,000 in funds have helped plant over 335 trees in cities and parks spanning from the Little Miami Trail near Loveland all the way to Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, in Cleveland. The 6-10 foot trees were delivered to the cities with the assistance of Dan Struve of QRST Nursery near Oregonia Ohio. Here's a listing of parks where trees have been planted: Avoca Park, Cincinnati, OH Battelle Darby Metro park, Columbus, OH Char Mar Park, Westerville, Delaware County, OH Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH Indian Mound Peterson Park, Cedarville, Oh John Bryan Community Center, Yellow Springs, OH Joyce Park, Hamilton, OH Killbuck Marsh State Wildlife Preserve, Killbuck, OH Little Miami Trail, Loveland, OH Melvin Miller Park, Urbana, OH Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, Cleveland OH Roadside Park, Sidney OH Russ Nature Reserve, Beavercreek, OH Shawnee Park, Xenia, OH Simon Kenton Trailhead, Bellefontaine, OH Smith Park, Middletown OH Southview Park, Bellefontaine, OH Treasure Island Park - Troy, OH
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