LOOK: DENR Regional Executive Director Gwendolyn C. Bambalan and PENR Officer Mariam Frances T. Malana lead the personnel of PENRO Quirino in planting 30 saplings of Yakal (Shorea astylosa), Guijo (Shorea guiso) and Ipil (Intsia bijuga) at the arboretum located in Cabarroguis town.
The 3.5-hectare provincial arboretum houses assorted Dipterocap and indigenous forest tree species. Since its establishment in 2015, the DENR personnel in the province have planted about 600 species at the arboretum.
The Forest Management Bureau (FMB) directed the establishment of arboretum to enhance the implementation of the National Greening Program by planting endemic trees that best thrive in the region, province or municipality. Aside from being a source of seeds for the maintenance of plus trees, the arboretum also serves as ecotourism site and educational laboratory.
As described in FMB Technical Bulletin No. 19, an arboretum is essentially a well-grown and representative collection of trees maintained for the purpose of reference and convenient source of seed and herbarium materials for use and exchange.
To ensure maintenance of the arboretum, all the personnel of the PENR Office and CENROs Diffun and Nagtipunan are assigned specific areas.#
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- Published: 03 August 2020
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