President Leonel Fernández actively participated yesterday in the formal start of the National Reforestation Plan, the afforestation program that seeks to rehabilitate the principal river basins of the country, valleys and mountains where trees where the winds of Hurricane Georges uprooted by the hundreds last September. President Fernández himself planted trees in the basins of the Ozama, Haina rivers, and atop the hills of La Comadreja in Monte Plata and Los Ganchos in Villa Altagracia. Vice President Jaime David Fernández, coordinator of the Plan Quisqueya Verde, the national forestry plan that was being implemented before the hurricane, was also there as well as employees of the principal national forestry departments.
