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Brookfield Awarded DEEP 'America the Beautiful' Grant
Town of Brookfield received a grant of $3,495 for the Still River Greenway Enhancement Project.
BROOKFIELD, CT-- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) recently announced that the Town of Brookfield is one of 17 recipients of the 2016 America the Beautiful (ATB) urban forestry grants, according to a release.
The DEEP stated that the ATB grants are designed to advance urban forestry in Connecticut.
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“Urban forestry is all about planning for the future – it is gesture of true optimism. The work done this year, through these grants, will sustain for years and even generations to come,” said Chris Martin, DEEP’s Director of Forestry. “What is great about these grants is that the work is being done at the local level, by people who care deeply about the city or town where they live. DEEP is there to help, but the people are there to get things done.”
Funding for the grants is through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state effort to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Administration of grants is through the DEEP Division of Forestry.
Below are the grant recipients.
ATB Grants 2016
Town of Branford
“Replacement of Street Tree Canopy in Historic Neighborhoods and Other Town Space”
$5,590.00
Town of Brookfield
“Still River Greenway Enhancement Project”
$3,495.00
Town of Coventry
“Main Street and Laidlaw Park Planting Plan”
$4,975.00
Town of Durham
“Durham Town Green Revitalization Project”
$4,400.00
CFPA (Middlefield)
“Forestry Education: a Key Component of Holistic Management”
$11,981.60
Oaklawn Cemetery Association (Fairfield)
“Oak Lawn Cemetery and Arboretum Management of Urban Forests Woodlands Plan”
$6,752.50
Town of Fairfield
“Interpretive Signage Project”
$4,300.00
Town of Glastonbury
“Town Hall/Academy Comples Tree Planting”
$12,000.00
Knox Inc (Hartford)
“The Maintenance of Hartford's Existing Young Trees”
$12,000.00
Milford Trees Inc (Milford)
“Large Open Space Planting, Maintenance of Nursery and Disease Prevention”
$3,700.00
City of Norwich
“Norwich Tree Installation Project 2016”
$12,000.00
Town of Prospect
“Planting of Legacy Trees within Parks of the Town of Prospect”
$5,085.00
Town of Rocky Hill
“Town of Rocky Hill Tree Planting for Center Cemetery”
$7,065.00
Town of Southbury
“Community Park Trees along CT Route 67”
$8,503.65.00
Town of Stratford
“Greening More from Forest to Shore”
$3,000.00
City of Torrington
“Forest Steward Management Plan Part II”
$4,252.20
Town of Westport
“The Lillian Wadsworth Arboretum Project - Phase II”
$10,900.00
Total of all grants: $120,000.00
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