Port LaBelle Getting New Trees Along Birchwood Parkway

PORT LABELLE, FL. -- The Hendry County Road and Bridge department is replacing oak trees along North Birchwood Parkway in Port LaBelle.

Supervisor Jerry Jones says new trees will be planted along the parkway median to replace damaged and dying trees that have been there for some 30 years or more. Birchwood Parkway is between the Laurel Oak community and Oak Haven, planted with many dozens of mature palms and oak trees.

UPDATE: Eight new oak trees have now been planted while road and bridge workers will water them (photo below).

Birchwood Parkway is one of the few county landscaped highway medians, others being at the entrances to Hendry County on four-lane State Road 80, and signed landscaped entrances to the county on two-lane State Road 29. Birchwood runs many miles long from Hendry County's Helms Road and then north through Glades County's Ranchettes community.

The Birchwood Parkway project took on tasks removing the old trees several weeks ago, checking for underground electric light utility wires along the median and today, digging holes for the new trees (photo above).