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Florida City Pineland Restoration & Black Forest Monument
September 30, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Restoration workday and Black Forest monument at Florida City Pineland on September 30th!
On Saturday September 30th, the EEL program will be having another restoration day at Florida City Pineland to continue the on the ground restoration success led by the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program in partnership with the Institute for Regional Conservation. Key partners from the South-Dade NAACP, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and Citizens for a Better South Florida have made previous events quite a success and changed the narrative around this pine rockland fragment. Saturday, September 30th workday will be very special and we’re looking for a push to get as many folks to the volunteer event as possible! Not only will we be getting our hands dirty with some impactful work in the pineland but MIT’s Poetic Justice Project will be dedicating a Black Forest Monument at 8:30 AM. To promote this event, we need to have folks register using the link/QR below and to distribute the Black Forest flyer (attached). Just 10 days remain. More information about the Black Forest is below.
Registration for EEL workday HERE: or use the QR code below:
About Black Forest and the September 30th event:
On Saturday, September 30, Ekene Ijeoma and the Poetic Justice Group, in collaboration with the Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources (RER) Division of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and the South-Dade NAACP Branch, invite you to a Black Forest tree planting in Florida City from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.. The location will be shared by signing up HERE
Black Forest is a living monument and archive for Black lives lost to Covid-19 across the US. Through multi-year collaborations with local urban forestry, oral history, and community organizations, they’re recording the names and stories of the over 100,000 Black lives lost and planting trees for them across all 50 states. Starting last November, they’ve organized plant-ins of 100 trees across Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco. Alongside the family, friends, and neighbors of those lost, they said their names, planted 8-10 feet 30-gallon trees of various types (across parks, lawns, and sidewalks), and labeled them with Black Forest tags. The tags were hand-numbered and dated by the relatives of those lost.
Ijeoma and his collaborators invite you to participate in their historical and monumental work by signing up HERE to: record the names of those lost for our archives, plant trees for them as monuments, say the names of those lost at our events, organize more call-ins and tree plant-ins, donate more trees or other resources (e.g., food and music) and campaign on social media and the streets.