The CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Division of Agriculture-CNMI Forestry was recently awarded its 2012 grant totaling $200,000. The funds will be used under the Urban and Community Forestry program, which focuses on beautification of parks, beaches, and public places by planting trees.<\/p>\n
Funds also cover the Forest Stewardship Program, which focuses on non-industrial, private landowners and increasing the diversity of forest trees.<\/p>\n
The grant also covers the Cooperative Forest Health and Invasive Species, which focuses on tree health and recovery, reduction of invasive tree species, and reduction of forest pests.<\/p>\n
The 2012 award is approved for one year. The programs mission is: \u201cConserve Working Forest Lands, Protect Forests from Harm, Enhance Public Benefits from Trees and Forests and to establish and improve the programs’ WEB-DET Capacity.\u201d The grant award took effect on July 1, 2012, through July 1, 2013.<\/p>\n
CNMI Forestry has worked closely with U.S. Forest Service Region 5 since 1982. (DLNR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Division of Agriculture-CNMI Forestry was recently awarded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-23889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}