By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky – Graciela Martinez can see the forest for the trees.
Graciela Martinez participated in Tree Week as part of her sustainability internship.
Martinez, an Environmental and Sustainability Studies major in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences, is joining several students in a year-long internship through UK’s Office of Sustainability. For her internship, she will be working with UK’s Urban Forest Initiative, which promotes the tree canopy on campus.
This fall, Martinez said, she’ll be helping run the forest initiative and organize such events as Tree Week, which was in October. Then in the spring, like all interns, she’ll develop an individual project and report on it at an event.
“I’ll be working on the planning side," said Martinez, who’s from Georgetown. “I’ll be