{"id":20003,"date":"2020-01-10T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:52:09","slug":"lehigh-county-conservation-district-awards-grant-for-urban-heat-island-tree-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20003","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Conservation District Awards Grant for Urban Heat Island Tree Planting"},"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\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20004\" width=\"338\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lehigh-tree-planting-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption>Photo provided by Lehigh County Conservation District. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission from Lehigh County Conservation District\u2019s Winter 2019 newsletter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>New York Times<\/em> article written on August 9, 2019, temperatures in a city can span a range of as much as 20 degrees depending upon one&#8217;s location. Students from Building 21 Public High School in Allentown have been working on finding solutions to this &#8220;hot topic&#8221; known as urban heat islands, for the last two years!<\/p>\n<p>Student Maribel Rabio proposed planting three large groups of flowering trees to add shade and natural beauty to her school\u2019s parking areas. After volunteering to help students with the first phase of Maribel\u2019s tree plantings, several Lehigh County Conservation District (LCCD) staff members encouraged the school to apply to the district\u2019s grant program for funding of phase two.<\/p>\n<p>Upon LCCD board approval for a $2,000 grant, Building 21\u2019s Urban Agriculture Class, Allentown Department of Public Works, and City Arborist Rick Howell worked together in October to carry out stage two of the project. On this day, six native redbuds and five native dogwoods joined Building 21\u2019s ever-growing and greening landscape and brought Maribel\u2019s great idea one step closer to completion.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lehigh-Heat-Island-Tree-Planting-Article-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to read the entire article and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/video\/students-plant-trees-outside-allentown-s-building\/video_3f596547-5eb8-5650-a2e9-1e8e9a6776fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to watch a local news clip about the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted with permission from Lehigh County Conservation District\u2019s Winter 2019 newsletter According to a New York Times article written on August 9, 2019, temperatures in a city can span a range of as much as 20 degrees depending upon one&#8217;s location. Students from Building 21 Public High School in Allentown have been working on finding [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","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=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}