Bastrop State Park tree planting an effort to regrow forest after fire

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) — A group of volunteers will plant seedlings at Bastrop State Park Wednesday and Thursday, the latest step in the long-term efforts to regrow the pine forest destroyed in the wildfire that swept through the area in 2011.
About 96 percent of the park burned to varying degrees during the fire, and since then regrowth has come in stages. Dead trees still litter the ground, natural growth has sprung up in places where trees survived, and volunteers and park staff have pla