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Owensboro awarded $84,303 federal grant to expand urban tree canopy
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Owensboro received an $84,303 Inflation Reduction Act grant administered by the USDA Forest Service to inventory, protect and plant trees at 10 low‑income-area sites over two years; city staff outlined plans for an ISA-certified arborist, 150 new trees and new canopy-management policies.
Owensboro city officials said the city received an $84,303 grant funded through the Inflation Reduction Act and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to expand and improve the city's urban tree canopy.
Parks Director Amanda Rogers told the City Commission on July 15 that the two-year Urban and Community Forestry Program grant, distributed in partnership with the Kentucky Division of Forestry, will fund a tree inventory, risk mitigation, strategic removals and new plantings at 10 locations identified by federal mapping as lower median household income areas.
Rogers said the city will hire a certified International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) arborist to complete a species- and…
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