{"id":26928,"date":"2019-04-18T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26928"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:20:38","slug":"somerset-county-celebrating-arbor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/18\/somerset-county-celebrating-arbor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset County Celebrating Arbor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students to Join State, County Officials for Tree-Planting<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4891\/44538537210_dcb3e961db.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of youth planting trees\" width=\"349\" height=\"205\" \/>Somerset County government, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> will hold its first Arbor Day celebration with a tree planting event on April 24. The event begins at 10 a.m. next to the Board of Education Building, 7982A Tawes Campus Drive, Westover. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local and state officials will join school students to plant more than 10 container-sized trees on the grounds. Trees are being supplied by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources&#8217; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/treemendous\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TreeMendous Maryland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/treemendous\/giftoftrees.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gift of Trees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> programs. A second planting will also take place later in spring on the property, with the county planting 12.6 acres of seedlings for forest conservation mitigation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This project is being coordinated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Forest Service<\/a> along with the Somerset County Department of Technical and Community Services, Somerset County Public Works and Somerset County Board of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students to Join State, County Officials for Tree-Planting Somerset County government, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources will hold its first Arbor Day celebration with a tree planting event on April 24. The event begins at 10 a.m. next to the Board of Education Building, 7982A Tawes Campus Drive, Westover. Local and<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/18\/somerset-county-celebrating-arbor-day\/\">&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":[4946,3990,2933,3091],"class_list":["post-26928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-forest","tag-gift-of-trees","tag-somerset-county","tag-trees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928","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=26928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26939,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928\/revisions\/26939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}