{"id":19833,"date":"2019-12-06T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19833"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:57:56","slug":"berks-county-conservation-district-holds-community-tree-planting-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19833","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Conservation District Holds Community Tree Planting Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BerksCREPtreeplanting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19834\" width=\"341\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BerksCREPtreeplanting.jpg 555w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BerksCREPtreeplanting-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Community tree planting coordinated by the Berks County Conservation District. Photo provided by BCCD.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nBerks County Conservation District (BCCD) was awarded a $2,500 grant through\nthe Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Outreach Program Office\n(administered by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngrant funds were used to hold a community tree planting event on November 9,\n2019. At the event, 20 volunteers helped to plant 130 trees on 0.6 acres. As\npart of the event, BCCD staff provided education on how to plant a forested riparian\nbuffer, the environmental benefits, financial programs available, and required\nmaintenance for the buffers to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19308\" width=\"257\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-768x162.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Financial and other support for the CREP Outreach Program Office Mini-grant Program is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a Growing Greener Watershed Protection grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and with additional support from USDA-NRCS.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Berks-community-tree-planting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> to read the entire article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berks County Conservation District (BCCD) was awarded a $2,500 grant through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Outreach Program Office (administered by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts). The grant funds were used to hold a community tree planting event on November 9, 2019. At the event, 20 volunteers helped to plant 130 trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-crep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}