January 20, 2021
For more information contact: Jim Britt at:
jim.britt@maine.gov
AUGUSTA - Up to $100,000 is available to Maine's local governments, municipalities, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations through Project Canopy's community assistance grant program. Project Canopy, Maine's community forestry program, a program of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's (DACF) Maine Forest Service, has awarded community forestry project grants totaling more than $600,000 since 2015.
"Project Canopy community assistance grants help communities with general maintenance planning, and they allow towns to respond to threats from invasive pests, such as the emerald ash borer,"
said Project Canopy Coordinator Jan Ames Santerre. "We're on a mission to sustain healthy urban and community forests because they provide a multitude of economic, environmental and social benefits."