The Morton Arboretum’s Community Trees Program helps communities, public and private landowners, land managers, tree professionals, and groups interested in trees to effectively manage and care for our urban and community forest. Our urban and community forest is not just the trees found in our nature preserves and parks, but also the trees along streets, outside office buildings, within homeowners associations, and even in private yards.
FY18 Community Forestry Funding Upon signed agreenment with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, more than $170,000 in federal funding is available for Illinois communities. Municipalities, park districts, townships, counties, forest preserve districts or conservation districts, and other local government entites are eligible. Allowable grant projects include tree planting, obtaining a tree inventory, and developing or updating a tree protection and preservation ordinance or a tree management plan. Click here for the grant flier. Application period: August 15, 2018 to October 1, 2018