{"id":26555,"date":"2019-03-18T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26555"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:45:17","slug":"free-tree-seedlings-for-wicomico-county-property-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/18\/free-tree-seedlings-for-wicomico-county-property-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Tree Seedlings for Wicomico County Property Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Orders Taken Until April 26<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1964\/31182279098_04d3742e20.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of tree growth in wetlands of Wicomico County \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ed Newton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0is offering free tree seedlings to Wicomico County landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property through the <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/programs\/Backyard-Buffer-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backyard Buffers<\/a>\u00a0program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trees and shrubs planted along waterways help improve water quality by absorbing excess nutrients, lowering peak water temperatures, reducing sediment and stabilizing stream banks.<\/p>\n<p>Each bag contains approximately 25 native bare-root tree and shrub seedlings, including bald cypress, river birch, serviceberry, spicebush and winterberry.<span id=\"more-26465\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-26460\"><\/span>Maryland Forest Service staff will provide information on tree maintenance and planting techniques, in addition to suggestions of other suitable native species at the time of pickup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quantities are limited so reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Orders can be placed by calling 410-543-1950 by April 26. Pickup will be on April 27 at the <span class=\"il\">Wicomico<\/span> Extension Office at 28647 Old Quantico Road, Salisbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orders Taken Until April 26 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is offering free tree seedlings to Wicomico County landowners who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream or other waterway on or near their property through the Backyard Buffers\u00a0program.<\/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":[2992,3276],"class_list":["post-26555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-backyard-buffers","tag-wicomico-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555","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=26555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26564,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555\/revisions\/26564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}