{"id":165218,"date":"2026-02-23T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:47:09","slug":"leon-county-crew-plants-75-cypress-trees-to-promote-health-of-pedrick-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165218\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County crew plants 75 cypress trees to promote health of Pedrick Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crew from Leon County Public Works planted dozens of trees along Pedrick Pond in Northeast Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>The county says workers planted 75 cypress trees along the southern shelf of the pond.<\/p>\n<p>They say the trees will support the pond&#8217;s health and performance and &#8220;improve facliity functioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pond, which is surrounded by a park, serves as a stormwater treatment system.<\/p>\n<p>The pond fills up as the area gets rainfall. It holds that floodwater, preventing it from running through the neighborhood and into homes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/northeast-tallahassee\/its-the-worst-ive-ever-seen-it-why-pedrick-pond-park-has-been-flooded-for-over-a-month\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The park had to temporarily close back in 2024<\/a>, after the pond flooded due to heavy rainfall in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>The county says these new trees will help stabilize the pond&#8217;s shoreline, absorb nutrients, and provide a habitat for local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crew from Leon County Public Works planted dozens of trees along Pedrick Pond in Northeast Tallahassee. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14086,1563,2927,32740,1289,78703,78704,25532,15061,232,234,233,2007],"class_list":{"0":"post-165218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-cypress","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-flooding","11":"tag-habitat","12":"tag-leon-county","13":"tag-pedrick-pond","14":"tag-planting","15":"tag-public-works","16":"tag-shore","17":"tag-tallahassee","18":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","19":"tag-tallahassee-news","20":"tag-treatment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}