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New Castle County parks division outlines tree plantings, Southern Park buildout and Prest Park demolition plans
Summary
Parks staff described a large reforestation at Wiggins Mill (11,000 saplings planted), ongoing infrastructure and maintenance planning for Southern Park, and plans to demolish most farm buildings at Prest (Red Lion) property after historic reviews and structural evaluations; council members raised maintenance, signage and funding concerns.
Kendall Summers, parks division manager, gave a multi‑part update: at Wiggins Mill Park the county and the Department of Agriculture planted roughly 11,000 small saplings in 2023 and about 150 trees in 2024; Summers said the plantings used small "whips" and were overplanted to account for attrition and that staff will run another volunteer planting around Earth Day 2025 to expand the forest buffer around the pond.
"We were able to plant 11,000 trees," Summers said, noting the plants were small and that volunteers helped flag rows to protect young trees from mowing. Summers said…
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