Community Environmental Management (CEM)

Your Community BMP Tree Planting

“YourBMP” provides low-cost trees, and the materials to plant them, for community groups for planting on private lands. Visit YourBMP to learn more about how your community or club can order trees for spring and fall planting.

Start a community tree planting application today.

Community Environmental Management

is also available to provides technical, material, and financial resources to communities to help them reduce stormwater runoff pollution through other means including dirt & gravel road management, rain barrel installations, and tree management (pest control and/or management plans for communities).

Start your CEM application today.

More CEM Ideas:

Project Rain Barrel. Provides materials and workshops so your garden club can construct and install 50-100 gallon rain barrels.

Dirt and Gravel Roads. Provides financial assistance to homeowner associations to reduce road runoff and erosion.

Hire Professional Tree Help. Financial assistance to neighborhoods that need an arborist or specialist to fight desease or pests, plant specialized trees, or do tree inventories.

For more information:

Contact Frank Rodgers, at 304-258-8013 or bmp@cacaponinstitute.org.

What is your BMP?

Go to our “What’s Your BMP” form report on your watershed best management practice (BMP), including tree plantings, rain barrels and cisterns, rain gardens, permeable pavers, downspout disconnection, and green roofs. By reporting your actions, you are supporting the efforts to clean up your local waterways. Check out pictures of what your friends and neighbors are doing. Thank you for your contribution!

This tool currently supports the following eight WV counties: Berkeley, Grant, Hardy, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan, Pendleton.

Community Environmental Management (CEM)

Your Community BMP Tree Planting