Arborists spend day cleaning up debris, branches at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thousands of arborists took time Wednesday to spruce up one of Kentucky's federal cemeteries.

It was a day of service at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. The Brownsboro Road location is one of many across the country where skilled volunteers from a nonprofit called Saluting Branches spent time trimming trees and picking up debris at federal cemetery sites.

"With the recent storms and winds that we've had throughout the time there are significant dead limbs and broken hangers and pieces that are fractured that if you don't have the trained eye you might think that tree is okay with the limbs on it," site leader Chad Strand said. "But upon further inspection you realize that that limb could fail at any time and not only could it cause damage to the headstone but it could injure someone who came to pay their respects to loved ones."

There were 20 people from Kentucky and Tennessee helped clean-up the Louisville location. This is the ninth year for Saluting Branches.

Arborists spend day cleaning up debris, branches at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery