{"id":12022,"date":"2016-11-18T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:06:30","slug":"65-trees-planted-at-queen-annes-county-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/11\/18\/65-trees-planted-at-queen-annes-county-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"65 Trees Planted at Queen Anne&#8217;s County High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Wetlands Created to Control Stormwater Runoff<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12025 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"qac-tree-planting-1\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-1.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0joined Queen Anne\u2019s County High School students Nov. 14 to plant 65 trees at the Centreville school.\u00a0The department funded the project with a $44,000 grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/trust-fund.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund<\/a>.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12024 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-4.jpg\" alt=\"qac-tree-planting-4\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>The tree planting is part of a project to create wetlands for stormwater runoff from the school grounds, which had been causing sediment and erosion problems to the nearby Corsica River. About 120 students worked to plant the native trees, which will help hold soil in place and protect wetlands.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12023 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-5.jpg\" alt=\"qac-tree-planting-5\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/QAC-Tree-Planting-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Chesapeake and Coastal Service staff joined with the Delmarva Resource Conservation and Development Council and the Queen Anne&#8217;s County office of the University of Maryland\u00a0Extension, which led the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetlands Created to Control Stormwater Runoff The Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0joined Queen Anne\u2019s County High School students Nov. 14 to plant 65 trees at the Centreville school.\u00a0The department funded the project with a $44,000 grant from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12030,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions\/12030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}