Words by Sophie Vaughan

The Life on Land Team heard from Jessica Glowczewski on the City of Akron’s ACORN Urban Forestry project. Glowczewski provided the team with details about the project, which is being funded by a grant from the USDA Forestry Service. While the grant proposal originally asked for $6.7 million, the USDA only awarded the City of Akron $1 million. Glowczewski reviewed the cuts that had to be made to scale down the project to stay within the $1 million and discussed their ambitious goals for the program.