The Village of Brockport has been awarded an Urban Forestry grant of $26,609 from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s 2019 round of grant applications. The highly competitive NYS program awarded 38 grants out of 154 municipal applications. Brockport’s forestry management grant will allow the village to take down 30 dead ash trees in Corbett Park and plant 12 large shade trees there — four each of Tupelo, Tulip Poplar, and London Plane. Brockport was also recently awarded a Tree City USA grant to plant four horse chestnut trees in Corbett Park. A 2018 DEC tree planting grant provided the village with seven elm trees planted in Corbett Park in the spring of 2020. Slowly the village is replacing the more than 50 ash trees devastated by the emerald ash borer in its largest park.
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