Green-Wood Cemetery will plant 1,500 new trees through Urban and Community Forestry Program

August 7, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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GREENWOOD HEIGHTS — THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY will be able to plant about 1,500 trees and tend to 140 mature trees, thanks to a grant from the federal Inflation Reduction Act that was awarded through the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. According to a DEC announcement published last December, the Green-Wood Cemetery was allocated $93,000 in funds for “tree inventory.” Gov. Hochul’s office in late July announced that Green-Wood is receiving $498,035 as part of the Community Forest Management Plan Implementation. The Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program authorizes funding for a broad range of activities, such as urban wood utilization, urban food forests, extreme heat mitigation and workforce development. Green-Wood’s project will focus on biodiversity and will identify which trees can adapt readily to climate change, particularly prolonged heat waves, rainfall and pollution.

The awards directly complement Hochul’s 2024 commitment to plant 25 million trees by 2033 and recent commitments through the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act and other New York State investments to cultivate greener, healthier communities.

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