{"id":20064,"date":"2018-02-13T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=20064"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:13:44","slug":"free-tree-seedlings-available-for-lower-eastern-shore-landowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/02\/13\/free-tree-seedlings-available-for-lower-eastern-shore-landowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Tree Seedlings Available for Lower Eastern Shore Landowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><i>Available to Riparian<\/i>\u00a0Homeowners in Somerset and Worcester<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7292\/10072324523_7254d33773_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a tree planting\" width=\"350\" height=\"386\" \/>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0is offering free tree plantings to help improve water quality in targeted Lower Eastern Shore communities.<\/p>\n<p>Somerset and Worcester\u00a0County landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property are eligible for free tree seedlings through the department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/programs\/Backyard-Buffer-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backyard Buffers<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trees planted along waterways help enhance and improve water quality by absorbing excess nutrients, reducing sediment, stabilizing stream banks and\u00a0lowering water temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Each \u201cbuffer in a bag\u201d contains 25 native, bare-root tree seedlings suited for planting in wet soil conditions. The bundle will include five river birch, five swamp white oak and five black locust, in addition to 10 loblolly pine. All seedlings are 1-year-old and about 8 to 10 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Forest Service<\/a> staff will provide information on tree maintenance and planting techniques, in addition to suggestions on other good native species at the time of pick up.<\/p>\n<p>All tree requests must be received by March 23.\u00a0Interested homeowners should contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dakota.durcho@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dakota Durcho<\/a>\u00a0by cellphone at 443-235-1634\u00a0or email to reserve their seedlings for an early April pick up. \u00a0Quantities are limited so reservations will be on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available to Riparian\u00a0Homeowners in Somerset and Worcester The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is offering free tree plantings to help improve water quality in targeted Lower Eastern Shore communities. Somerset and Worcester\u00a0County landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property are eligible for free tree seedlings through the department\u2019s\u00a0Backyard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/02\/13\/free-tree-seedlings-available-for-lower-eastern-shore-landowners\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"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":[2992,2994,3126,4098,2933,4174,3091,2910],"class_list":["post-20064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-backyard-buffers","tag-buffers-in-a-bag","tag-eastern-shore","tag-lower-eastern-shore","tag-somerset-county","tag-tree-seedlings","tag-trees","tag-worcester-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20064"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20137,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064\/revisions\/20137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}