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CIU partners in historic Earth Day tree planting

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CIU is partnering with and other South Carolina organizations in , a history-making effort to plant a record 3.3-plus million loblolly pine tree seeds across the state. McMaster calls it the “largest single-day tree-planting in United States history.”

POWERPLANTSC was conceived and is directed by CIU student Tom Mullikin, a global expedition leader and Chairman. Mullikin is working on a at CIU.

Earth Day will begin with a tree-planting hosted by McMaster at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbia. The ceremony will include Smith offering the invocation and CIU Chaplaincy Professor delivering the “blessing to the trees.”

POWERPLANTS is designed to raise awareness about the importance of trees to human and environmental health, not the least of which is the mitigation of disastrous flooding.

Here is from President Smith to get involved.

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