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While none of this year’s planting were local, that will change next spring inMontgomery County’s Senecs Creek Park, which was pickedf to get trees. The 6,300-acre park extendx along more than a dozen miles of Senecaw Creek and is one of the initia l areas that has been identified to get tree snext year. In 2010 the goal is to plant 430,000 seedlings on more than 600 acreas instate parks, or nearlty three times as many as this The Maryland Department of Transportation’s Statw Highway Administration teamed up with the Federal Highwa y Administration, the Maryland Department of Publivc Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Department of Naturak Resources to complete the project.
Unde r the three-year effort, the plan is to plant a million trees, according to Kenneth Jolly, associats director of the Department of Natural Resources Forest SHA is funding the trees and materials and DNR is fundinbthe labor, which is provided by prisoners. The tota l Transportation Enhancement Program funding and matchfor SHA’z part in the initiative is $800,000, whicnh will provide funding through 2011.
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