Around the globe, various organizations are setting ambitious targets to plant and conserve trees as a key climate resilience strategy. As a prominent state example, Maryland’s legislature passed the Tree Solutions Now Act of 2021, which calls for 5 million additional trees to be planted by 2030, with 500,000 of them targeted to urban, underserved areas. This Fall’s newsletter highlights a few of the partnership initiatives in our watershed that aim to significantly scale up tree planting and maintenance efforts in the years ahead.

DE: Delaware Commits to Planting and Maintaining Trees in the State

Delaware has committed to planting and maintaining trees throughout the the state. Over the last year Delaware has joined the 1t.org tree planting initiative along with creating the Tree for Every Delawarean Initiative.

MD: Planting the Future – Accelerating Tree Planting Across Central Maryland

The Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition is tackling its first regional green infrastructure initiative thanks to a $1 million Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awarded in 2020.

PA: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership

The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership is a multi-year effort designed to spark governmental action, public attention, and funding to rally efforts around Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint.