{"id":30928,"date":"2020-07-14T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=30928"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:00:06","slug":"communities-across-maryland-receive-2400-free-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/07\/14\/communities-across-maryland-receive-2400-free-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Across Maryland Receive 3,450 Free Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DNR and Clear Ridge Nursery Partner for Distribution<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50108393048_4e9a08d3d0.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of trailer load of containerized trees\" width=\"350\" height=\"170\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clear Ridge Nursery, in partnership with the Maryland Forest Service, prepares a delivery of containerized trees for planting.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in partnership with Clear Ridge Nursery in Union Bridge, Carroll County, is distributing more than 3,450 free containerized trees to help increase tree canopy across the state. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/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\"> identified 44 conservation groups, government agencies, community groups, and nonprofit organizations to receive the free trees for planting this summer.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;This was a really great opportunity for the Maryland Forest Service to supplement tree-planting efforts by many of our volunteer groups,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/treemendous\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tree-Mendous Maryland <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Program Coordinator Anne Gilbert said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We really appreciate our partnership with the Department of Natural Resources to find good homes for these trees,\u201d said Jessica Todd, president of Clear Ridge Nursery. \u201cThey are beautiful trees that will provide years of enjoyment and environmental benefits to the communities and locations where they are planted.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although spring and fall are optimal planting seasons, trees planted in the summer can do well if they are given special attention by keeping them well watered over the season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tree-Mendous Maryland Program has been working with many communities and volunteers to reschedule a number of spring tree planting events that had to be postponed due to COVID-19 safety precautions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, communities and volunteer groups interested in ordering trees for fall plantings on public land should <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/treemendous\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">contact the Tree-Mendous program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for information. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNR and Clear Ridge Nursery Partner for Distribution The Maryland Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with Clear Ridge Nursery in Union Bridge, Carroll County, is distributing more than 3,450 free containerized trees to help increase tree canopy across the state. The Maryland Forest Service identified 44 conservation groups, government agencies, community groups, and nonprofit<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/07\/14\/communities-across-maryland-receive-2400-free-trees\/\">&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":[2968,4994,5149,2943,3091],"class_list":["post-30928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-carroll-county","tag-maryland-forest-service","tag-plantings","tag-tree-mendous-maryland","tag-trees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928","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=30928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30961,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928\/revisions\/30961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}