Community engagement’s role in federal forestry dollars and the Goodhue trees [Video]

The city pushed pause on a controversial proposal to remove 24 trees along a stretch of Goodhue Boulevard leading up to the southern entrance of the state Capitol so there’s more time for discussion — and the state is watching.

The $140,000 to remove the trees and replace them with 70 new trees along Goodhue and the main intersections between A and H streets comes from the federal Inflation Reduction Act, via the Nebraska Forestry Service.

The 2022 federal law made the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history, including an eye-popping $1.5 billion for community urban forestry across the nation.

Of that, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $250 million to the states and of that, Nebraska got $1.87 million. The …