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Stepping in for Mother Nature: When 'Nature's Call' Comes Up Short: KIB's Dance for Rain
Deadly Drought of 2012
Reaching out to valuable resources
Learning lessons from those who have gone before
“Take Action!”
KIB Project Database
All 27,000 trees planted over the past five years…
Allowed us to create maps of all our trees
Within two weeks, KIB was watering thousands of trees weekly
Projects from the past five years were targeted
Engaging KIB’s Youth Tree Team
And private contractors (farmers from southern Indiana)
and several other local landscape contractors
Along with KIB volunteers…11,000 trees were watered each week for over two
months!
KIB’s website informed people of need to water
Social media was engaged
Videos of how to water trees were createdusing the ideas of other organizations
KIB Arborists featured on all major Indy news networks
talking about the drought
Mulch Madness program createdto help save water and trees
With cool props, like the Mulch o’Meter!
Hundreds of volunteers were engagedto mulch over 6,000 trees
Including schools, faith based congregations,
service clubs, and tree lovers…
To Take Action!
To raise awareness and funds, KIB hostsDraft for Draught
Lessons Learned
Learn from others!
Don’t start from scratch, find out what has worked…
Prepare and have a Plan (KIB has now developed a Drought Plan)
Be grateful if you have tracked your trees, and if you haven’t…now is the time to start!
Andrew [email protected]