{"id":26460,"date":"2019-03-01T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26460"},"modified":"2019-03-01T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:30:44","slug":"free-tree-seedlings-available-in-garrett-washington-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/01\/free-tree-seedlings-available-in-garrett-washington-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Tree Seedlings Available in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Orders for Backyard Buffer Program Due March 31 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1523\/25184168781_d2acf2dfeb.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of seedlings growing at state nursery\" width=\"348\" height=\"261\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is offering free tree seedlings to landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property through the Backyard Buffers program.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trees and shrubs planted along waterways help improve water quality by absorbing excess nutrients, lowering peak water temperatures, reducing sediment and stabilizing stream banks.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each \u201cbuffer in a bag\u201d contains about 30 native bare-root tree and shrub seedlings suitable for planting in moist soil conditions. This year, seedlings for\u00a0 Washington County properties will include a mix of: buttonbush, black chokeberry, Washington hawthorn, eastern redbud, swamp white oak, and loblolly-pitch pine hybrid. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Forest Service staff will provide information on tree maintenance and planting techniques, in addition to suggestions on other good native species at the time of pickup. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requests must be received by March 31. Interested property owners should contact the Washington County \u2013 Forest Service office at 301-791-4733 or email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:robertr.schwartz@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">robertr.schwartz@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to reserve their seedlings. Bundles will be available for pickup in early April. Quantities are limited so reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orders for Backyard Buffer Program Due March 31 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering free tree seedlings to landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property through the Backyard Buffers program. Trees and shrubs planted along waterways help improve water quality by absorbing excess nutrients,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/01\/free-tree-seedlings-available-in-garrett-washington-counties\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[2992,2909],"class_list":["post-26460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-backyard-buffers","tag-washington-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26464,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions\/26464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}