{"id":20152,"date":"2018-02-20T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=20152"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:13:42","slug":"free-tree-seedlings-available-for-garrett-county-landowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/02\/20\/free-tree-seedlings-available-for-garrett-county-landowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Tree Seedlings Available for Garrett County Landowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Riparian Homeowners Can Help Improve Water Quality<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7292\/10072324523_7254d33773_b_d.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"337\" \/>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 Garrett County communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>County\u00a0landowners 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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trees planted along waterways help improve water quality by absorbing excess nutrients, reducing sediment, lowering peak water temperatures and stabilizing stream banks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each \u201cBuffer in a Bag\u201d contains 25 native bare-root tree and shrub seedlings suitable for planting in moist soil conditions. The bundle will include a mix of swamp white oak, common ninebark, silver maple, river birch and white pine.\u00a0Quantities are limited, and reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Forest Service<\/a>\u00a0staff will provide information on tree planting and growing techniques, planting arrangements, tree maintenance, and tips about other good native species choices at the time of pick up.<\/p>\n<p>Requests to participate in the program will only be taken until March 30.\u00a0If you are interested in participating, please call 301-334-3296 or email <a href=\"mailto:melissa.nash@maryland.gov\">melissa.nash@maryland.gov<\/a>. The trees will be available for pick up in early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riparian Homeowners Can Help Improve Water Quality The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is offering free tree plantings to help improve water quality in targeted Garrett County communities.\u00a0 County\u00a0landowners 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 Buffers\u00a0program.<\/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":[957,1965,23],"tags":[2992,2994,2949,4236,4174],"class_list":["post-20152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","category-land","tag-backyard-buffers","tag-buffers-in-a-bag","tag-garrett-county","tag-melissa-nash","tag-tree-seedlings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152","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=20152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20223,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152\/revisions\/20223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}