Eccentric forester planted millions of trees before dying of COVID-19
12 million trees "His hands carved the looks of a portion of our planet," said Romana Krouzel, 56. Krouzel, 79, had worked in forestry or tree planting in B.C. for more than 35 years and trained in forestry at 13 growing up in Czechoslovakia.(Submitted by family) Daughter Aida Krouzel, 32, estimates her father planted about 12 million trees throughout his life. "He just loved to be outside helping the community and the forest," she said. "He'd been planting trees since he was 13 years old in the Czech Republic in the forestry cadets, so it's very possible he planted millions of trees out t...