{"id":28757,"date":"2019-09-26T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28757"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:44:23","slug":"maryland-forest-service-seeks-black-walnuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/26\/maryland-forest-service-seeks-black-walnuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Forest Service Seeks Black Walnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i><\/i><\/b><i>Collection Sites in Frederick and Washington Counties Open Until Oct. 26<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/922\/28369898577_f167bd0d5e.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of entrance to Gambrill State Park\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/>Marylanders with black walnut trees on their property are asked to donate extra walnuts to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Forest Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will use the walnuts to grow and plant trees along creeks, rivers, and streams as part of state\u2019s tree planting program, aimed at enhancing habitat and water quality throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizens can drop off walnuts \u2013 in bags, boxes, or containers \u2013 at either <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/gambrill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gambrill State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Frederick County or the U.S. Department of Agriculture <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcs.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/nrcs\/main\/md\/contact\/local\/#Washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural Resource Conservation Service office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Washington County. Anyone with questions should contact those locations directly.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black walnut trees are easy to identify by the large round nuts that drop after the leaves fall in autumn. Black walnuts are fairly common in Maryland and may live for up to 250 years. They are the most commonly planted nut tree in North America, partly because most seedlings germinate from nuts buried by squirrels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collection Sites in Frederick and Washington Counties Open Until Oct. 26 Marylanders with black walnut trees on their property are asked to donate extra walnuts to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.\u00a0 The Maryland Forest Service will use the walnuts to grow and plant trees along creeks, rivers, and streams as part of state\u2019s tree<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/26\/maryland-forest-service-seeks-black-walnuts-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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":[5035,5036,3037,4994,5034],"class_list":["post-28757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-black-walnut","tag-chesapeake-bay-watershed","tag-gambrill-state-park","tag-maryland-forest-service","tag-natural-resource-conservation-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28757"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28794,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757\/revisions\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}