TheNewJerseyTree Foundation is offering free 2-year-old trees (1 to 2 feet tall) to celebrate ArborDay 2011 in New Jersey. Schools, local governments, tree groups, nonprofit organizations, Scout groups and any volunteer organization may apply for the free trees. In 13 years, the N.J. Tree Foundation’s “Celebrate Arbor Day!” program has planted more than 121,000 trees in parks, schools and public spaces across New Jersey.
There aremany ways the trees can be used to beautify a neighborhood. Trees can be planted in a vacant lot to create an urban forest, planted as a windbreak for a community garden or at a school, planted in a nursery, or planted randomly throughout a park, school or cemetery.
All plantingmust occur on public lands, be done by volunteers and maintained for two years. Avariety of evergreen and deciduous trees will be available. For details or an application, email Lisa Simms at [email protected] or download an application from www.newjerseytreefoundation.org/FreeTrees.asp. The deadline for application materials is Feb. 25.