Tree Planting Projects

The City of Fayetteville Urban Forestry Division secured an $80,000 grant from the Arkansas Forestry Commission that is sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service. This grant is broken into two parts. Some of the money will be used to conduct a sample street tree inventory to see if trees along the rights-of-way are unhealthy and need to be removed or in need of corrective pruning. For the second part of the grant the city will contract out the planting of approximately 250 trees along streets or in parks to rap lace trees lost in the 2009 ice storm.

During 2010 approximately 300 trees will be planted in various locations in town. Funding for this project is from the City Tree Escrow account. Developers, in-lieu of planting trees at the time of development paid money into the fund for the City to plant tress at a later date. The first project of the year is planting 57 trees in the right-of-way in the Clabber Creek Phase II development off Mt Comfort Rd.