“Metro Partners” for the TreeVitalize Metros Program are county or regional government entities that are under contract with DCNR to help disburse Tree Vitalize grant funds. See the list below of Metro Partners presently in place and the counties they serve. The application for Tree Vitalize Metros sub-grants can be downloaded here here or is available through the appropriate Metro Partner.

For plantings in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area or the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area, please refer to their websites:

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Applications are presently being accepted for Spring 2009 plantings in the following areas:

Reading Metropolitan Area
Berks counties:

Metro Partner: Berks Conservancy
Larry Lloyd
25 North 11th Street
Reading, PA 19601
Phone: 610-372-4992
Fax: 610-372-2917
http://www.berks-conservancy.org/

State College-Williamsport Metropolitan Area
Center, Lycoming counties:

Metro Partner: SEDA-COG
Tom Grbenick
201 Furnace Road
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Phone: (570) 524-4491
Fax: (570) 524-9190
http://www.seda-cog.org

Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Area
Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry counties:

Metro Partner: Cumberland County Planning
Stephanie Williams
18 north Hanover Street
Third Floor
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 240-5383
Fax: (717) 240-6517
http://www.ccpa.net

Metro Partner: Dauphin County Parks (Dauphin & Perry Counties)
Chris Rebert
100 Fort Hunter Road
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: (717) 221-0292
Fax: (717) 599-5397
http://www.dauphincounty.org/parks-recreation/

Altoona Metropolitan Area and Johnstown Metropolitan Area
Blair and Cambria Counties:

Metro Partner: Southern Alleghenies Planning & Development Commission
Frederick M. querry
541 58th Street
Altoona, PA 16602
Phone: (814) 949-6508
Fax: (814) 949-6505
http://www.sapdc.org

Erie Metropoliton Area
Erie county:

Metro Partner: To Be Determined

Scranton-Wilkes Barre Metropolitan Area
Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming Counties:

Metro Partner: Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority
Daniel K. Perry
Scranton Life Building
538 Spruce Street, Suite 516
Scranton, PA 18503
Phone: (570) 963-6730
Fax: (570) 963-6732
http://www.LHVA.org

Lancaster Metropoliton Area
Lancaster county:

Metro Partner: To Be Determined

Lebanon Metropolitan Area
Lebanon county:

Metro Partner: Lebanon County Conservation District
Leigh Beamesderfer
2120 Cornwall Road
Suite 5
Lebanon, PA 17042
Phone: (717) 272-3908
Fax: (717) 272-5314
http://www.lccd.org

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Metropolitan Area
Carbon, Northhampton and Lehigh counties:

Metro Partner: Lehigh County Office of Community & Economic Development
Virginia Savage
17 South Seventh Street, Rm 519
Allentown, PA 18109
Phone: (610) 782-3809
Toll Free:
Fax: (610) 820-8257
http://www.lehighcounty.org/Departments/CommunityEconomicDevelopment/tabid/320/Default.aspx

Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, Philadelphia, Delaware counties:

Metro Partner: PA Horticulture Society
Michael Leff
100 North 20th Street
5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: (215) 988-8800
Fax: (215) 988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org

Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area
Butler, Beaver, Armstrong, Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette counties:
(Presently only available in the city of Pittsburgh)

Metro Partner: Western PA Conservancy
Jeff Bergman
800 Waterfront Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone: (412) 288-2777
Toll Free: (866) 564-5972
Fax: (412) 231-1414
http://www.paconserve.org

York Metropolitan Area
York county:

Metro Partner: York County Conservation District
Christopher Thompson
118 Pleasant Acres Road
York, PA 17402
Phone: 717-840-7430
Fax: 717-755-0301
http://www.yorkccd.org

Grants will be available for Fall 2009 plantings in Berks, Center, Cumberland, Dauphin, Erie, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lycoming, Perry and York counties. Metro Partners will be listed at that time.