Grant to aid re-treeing effort June 14, 2021 on Environment, News ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth Garden Club has been awarded a Project Canopy Planning Grant through a program of the Maine and U.S. Forest Services to help develop an urban forestry program for the city. Green Ellsworth, the city of Ellsworth, Frenchman Bay Conservancy and the Garden Club as well as a group of Ellsworth citizens led by Ruth Foster are collaborating on the effort. A critical component of the work is to understand what trees Ellsworth currently has along its streets and in public places and what condition they are in. Moving forward it will be necessary for planning to determine locations for new plantings and what the trend in canopy coverage has been over time. With these goals in mind, Green Ellsworth has created a team of volunteer tree surveyors who can extend their 2018 surveys of major streets to smaller residential streets and public areas. It will also contract out a current and historical canopy coverage assessment of the city.