Scott Swanson
Last Thursday, March 4, a quartet of men busily planted potted pines on a knoll just north of the ponds at Sunnyside Park.
Their activity was the culmination of a years-long effort by local forestry enthusiasts, designed to highlight reforestation of the tree they were planting, the Willamette Valley ponderosa pine.
The Sunnyside project, which will be named the Robert H. Mealey Pine Grove, is composed of 50 young trees that will honor…