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SPNRD receives tree grants

South Platte Natural Resources District has received two grants to bring trees to Sidney and the surrounding area.

Through ReTree Nebraska and EAT (Environmentally Adapted Trees) grants, SPNRD has already received 40 trees, which it will soon begin dispersing, Galen Wittrock, SPNRD assistant manager, said.

ReTree is a University of Nebraska initiative, through the Nebraska Forest Service, to replant a million trees.

"The forest service provides money to buy large, landscape trees, and provide them to communities that work with organizations or tree boards to plant trees within the public areas...

 

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