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Tree board outlines fall planting schedule under grant; members push for more neighborhood plantings
Summary
Board members described a fall planting schedule funded through a grant applied for by a community partner and discussed targeting high-traffic corridors and canopy-deficit neighborhoods. The board noted constraints that the grant requires many plantings on public property.
Members of the Evansville City Tree Advisory Board discussed a multi-site fall planting schedule tied to a grant applied for by a community partner and recommended expanding plantings into neighborhoods and high-traffic corridors.
Board members said they met with Westman Woods and Nick from Keep Evansville Beautiful to coordinate several planting events funded through the grant. The schedule discussed at the Sept. 4 meeting includes about 65 trees at Anthony Oates Park, a planting event on Nov. 15 at Deaconess Gable expected to add more than 60 trees, a smaller planting on Nov. 22 at the State Hospital property, and a Dec. 6 planting in the Jacobsville Park area. Exact counts…
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