AUBURN — Project Canopy, the Maine Forest Service’s urban and community forestry program, announces the city has been awarded a grant to plant trees at Pettengill Park, the PAL Center and along the Chestnut Trail in October.

City workers will join employees from TD Bank and Alliance for Community Trees to do the planting. As part of TD Forests, the bank’s environmental initiative to reduce paper use and increase protected forest habitat, TD Bank and ACTrees are partnering with multiple community organizations for TD Tree Days. Tree plantings will take place from Maine to Florida in September and October.

Volunteers will plant 120 trees on the Chestnut Trail and its surroundings.

Project Canopy is a cooperative partnership between the Maine Forest Service, under the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, and Grow Smart Maine, a statewide organization that supports sustainable prosperity.