Trees 2020 Update - The Urban Forest Grows!
October 14, 2008 by Susan Korte
Filed under Environment
The 500 trees for sale to Providence homeowners at great prices through the Trees 2020 program are gorgeous, good-sized trees, 12 to 15 feet high. Several species are available, so apply early to get the best selection.
Connect Providence featured the Trees 2020 program in an earlier post before the Trees 2020 website was launched, so this update urges readers to check out the new website of this program, which will go on for the next 12 (yes, 12!) years. Our City Forester, Doug Still, is determined to see another 40,000 trees added to our urban forest, and it will take a while to make this happen. Get familiar with this program and consider planting a tree or donating to this ultimate GREEN project.
These trees are for planting in private yards in Providence, unlike the trees available through the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program that provides street trees twice a year. The deadline to apply for next spring’s PNPP street trees is December 1, by the way. The fall planting of the PNPP street trees is going on now in the Blackstone, Charles, College Hill, Elmhurst, Elmwood, Federal Hill, Mount Hope, Olneyville, Smith Hill, Wanskuck, and West End neighborhoods. PNPP could use some help with these plantings so give Liz Downing a call at PNPP, 401-351-6440 x13 or email street_trees at pnpp.org.