{"id":28465,"date":"2017-01-25T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/?page_id=28465"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:04:00","slug":"pittsfieldgreeninggateway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/pittsfieldgreeninggateway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsfield’s Greening the Gateway City Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The program was created with a goal of increasing the number of trees planted in urban residential areas of the Massachusetts Gateway Cities (Pittsfield is one!). Through the GGCP program<\/a>, 3,000 trees (ranging from 6ft to 10ft tall) were planted with a goal of covering 5% of target neighborhoods in new tree canopy cover. The trees were planted by foresters from the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) Urban & Community Forestry Program, with crews hired from local communities. Read more about current and potential benefits here.<\/a> To see the list of other cities participating, please visit Greening the Gateway Cities Program.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OVER 3,000 TREES PLANTED IN PITTSFIELD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What are the benefits of having more trees?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This program was aimed at reducing energy use in the\u00a0surrounding neighborhoods, but there are many benefits of having more trees in these neighborhoods!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out the new “Green Heart” study by The Nature Conservancy<\/a> and others to evaluate the health benefits of planting urban trees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEAT worked with many others to make the Pittsfield Greening the Gateway City Program a success. In addition to our state partners and the City of Pittsfield, we would like to thank:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our many wonderful volunteers who put in hundreds of hours watering young trees and going door-to-door letting people know about the possibility of receiving free trees, professionally planted for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n