Backyard Trees Program Agreement Sample Contracts
Application and AgreementBackyard Trees Program Agreement • September 25th, 2020
Baltimore County’s Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability (EPS) plants trees as a cost-effective best management practice to manage urban stormwater runoff. EPS has several programs available to citizens, including a rural Turf to Tree program for reforestations of approximately an acre or larger and managed grounds/street tree plantings for landscape style trees spaced approximately 30’ apart. The Backyard Trees Program (the “Program”) is available for Baltimore County residents who would like a reforestation planting on their property, but do not have an acre or more to plant. Under the Program, the County will plant 20 to 145 native deciduous trees (no evergreens) spaced 15’ apart. Trees are planted in staggered rows and equipped with deer protection (5’ tube and 2” x 2” x 6’ stake). The County’s Waterway Improvement Fund is financing the Program as the plantings are credited towards the County’s federally mandated Chesapeake Bay Restoration Program. Property owne