City giving away trees tomorrow

The city of Pittsburgh's annual tree giveaway, an event that drew so many people last year that a line formed around the outside of the City-County Building, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow.

The fourth annual event is timed to complement the celebration of Earth Day on Friday.

About 1,000 dogwood saplings will be given away -- on a first-come, first-served basis -- at the Grant Street portico of the City-County Building.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl created the giveaway with the goal of aiding the regional TreeVitalize initiative to plant 20,000 trees by 2012.

"We were so excited by the overwhelming response to all of our Free Tree Giveaways that we've decided to make this an annual Earth Day event," Mr. Ravenstahl said.

A person doesn't have to be a city resident to get a tree.





First published on April 20, 2011 at 2:37 pm