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Project Canopy Communities In concert with community partners, Maine has a very active program to maintain and enhance urban and community forests. These efforts include: Encouraging proactive efforts at municipal level to maintain healthy urban and community forests. Providing information, technical and financial assistance to municipalities. Encouraging municipalities and others to reduce the impacts of land use change, fragmentation and urbanization of forest landscapes. Encouraging municipalities and others to manage and restore trees and forests to mitigate and adapt to climate change. B...

To be eligible to apply for 2021 Project Canopy Assistance grants, all applicants must attend a grant workshop prior to submitting an application (excluding previous workshop attendees).  The grant workshop is web-based and is scheduled for February 3, 2021 at 1 PM, and will cover topics including grant writing, project development, sustainable community forestry management, and grant administration.  Grant applications will be due to the Maine forest Service at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 12, 2021. All grants require a 50% match from the grant recipient in cash or in-kind services....

‘Maine’s Big Trees’ topic of Kennebec Historical Society’s March 17 virtual talk Share Jan Santerre with former state and national champion yellow birch in Deer Isle. Photo courtesy of Kennebec HIstorical Society The Kennebec Historical Society’s March Facebook Live presentation “Maine’s Big Trees” is planned for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17. Jan Santerre will be the speaker. Since 1968, the Maine Forest Service has compiled a list of the largest known specimens of native and naturalized trees in Maine. The 2020 Register contains 146 trees, representing 138 species. Of these...

Read Article AUGUSTA — Up to $100,000 is available to Maine’s local governments, municipalities, educational institutions and nonprofit 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 grants are available in two categories: Planning and Education, and Tree Planting and Maintenance. Planning and Educa...

Grants available for community forestry projects in Maine towns Thu, 01/21/2021 - 3:45pm Up to $100,000 is available to Maine's local governments, municipalities, educational institutions, and nonprofit 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 gen...