TreeVitalize Pittsburgh Now Accepting Applications For Street, Park, Trail Tree Planting Grants In Pittsburgh + Allegheny County; Resources Also Available Outside The County

The TreeVitalize Pittsburgh Program is now accepting applications for Spring 2025 tree planting grants.  The deadline to begin the application process is October 1.

TreeVitalize Pittsburgh supports street tree plantings within Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh by providing forestry expertise, trees, supplies, and planting event coordination for neighborhood groups. 

TreeVitalize Pittsburgh also accepts applications for community parks and trails, and for restoration plantings.

The TreeVitalize Pittsburgh program’s street tree plantings help the Western PA Conservancy and its partners meet the goals of the City of Pittsburgh’s 10-year Street Tree Management Plan. 

The plan is based on tree inventory data collected in 2014 and helps guide our work to maintain and increase street tree populations. 

With the help of volunteers and partners, we do this work through new plantings, replacing trees that have been removed because of age or health reasons, and filling vacant tree planting sites.

Click Here to apply and for more information. Questions should be directed to: Alicia Wehrle at awehrle@paconserve.org or 412-586-2386.

Outside Allegheny County

If you live outside of Allegheny County and wish to apply for trees for your community, please contact the statewide TreeVitalize grant Program, managed by TreePennsylvania, for more information and to receive an application.

More information is available on programs, initiatives and special events at the Western PA Conservancy website.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates from the Conservancy, Like them on Facebook, Follow them on Twitter, join them on Instagram, visit the Conservancy’s YouTube Channel or add them to your network on Linkedin.  Click Here to support their work.

The Conservancy has helped to establish 11 state parks, conserved more than 250,000 acres of natural lands and protected or restored more than 3,000 miles of rivers and streams, maintains 132 community gardens and other green spaces that are planted with the help of more than 11,000 volunteers and the support of more than 9,000 members.

Resource Links:

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership Giving Away 100,000 Trees  [PaEN] 

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Launches PA Plants Native! Initiative To Plant 100,000 Trees In Next 18 Months; Fall Tree Request Form Now Live!  [PaEN] 

Related Article:

-- Western PA Conservancy Adds 122 Acres To State Game Lands In French Creek Watershed, Crawford County  [PaEN]

[Posted: August 2, 2024]  PA Environment Digest