Middle schoolers plant new life in Black Forest burn scar

Fort Collins project to bring millions of new trees to lands devastated by wildfires

Millions of state and federal dollars are going to a project to reforest Colorado lands that were devastated by wildfires.

Middle schoolers plant new life in Black Forest burn scar

By Michelle Reyes Click here for updates on this story     BLACK FOREST, Colorado (KOAA) — With shovels in hand, more than 20 students from the ‘TRACKS’ program at Home School Academy trekked into the Black Forest burn scar, the same area scorched by the 2013 wildfire. This charred stretch of forest is slowly coming back to life thanks to these Academy School District 20 middle schoolers, who are planting more than 100 trees as part of a wildfir…