The Michigan Department of Natural Resources today announced the awarding of 12 grants totaling $67,148 for urban forestry projects statewide. This competitive grant program, a cooperative effort between the DNR and the USDA Forest Service, funds projects that help create and sustain local urban forestry programs. A list of the grantees is attached.
Grants are awarded for tree planting, community tree inventories, management plans and education/training projects which enhance and promote urban forestry in Michigan . A list of this year’s award recipients is attached.
The grants are federally funded through the USDA Forest Service’s State and Private Forestry Program. Cost-share funds are available to local units of government, schools, tribal governments, and nonprofit entities [501(c)3)]. Grants require 1:1 matching funds toward projects performed on non-federal, public lands or lands open to the public. Grant awards will be distributed in November for projects to be completed by Sept. 1, 2012.
For more information, contact Kevin Sayers , DNR , Urban Forestry coordinator, at 517-241-4632, or visit http://www.michigan.gov/ucf.
