Landscape Callery Pear Removal Grants
The Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District’s Callery Pear Removal Program is an incentive program intended to defray landowner costs for removal of mature, standalone, landscape callery pear trees. The goal of this program is to help landowners practice better environmental stewardship by providing financial assistance for the removal of invasive pear trees that would not otherwise be removed without financial assistance.
What does the program cover?
- For approved applicants, the program will cover 50% of removal costs for removal of any variety of Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana). Common names include but are not limited to: Bradford, Aristocrat, Cleveland Select, Chanticleer.
- The maximum award per property is $400.
- Trees must be mature and have a trunk at least 20 inches in circumference at ~4 feet off the ground to qualify and be in a landscape setting.
- Treatment of the cut stump with an appropriate herbicide within 30 minutes of the last trunk cut is required. Your contractor may be able to provide this service. See our stump treatment and herbicide guide here.
- Smaller trees that do not require a contractor for removal do not qualify and are a better fit for our native for invasive trade in program.
- Callery pear infestations that have naturalized into wooded areas do not qualify and are a better fit for our more comprehensive invasive species cost share program (above).
- This is a cost share program, approved participants work directly with the contractor of their choice and pay that contractor in full. Look below for information on our partner contractors who are offering discounts to participants! Approved participants will be eligible for a cost share reimbursement payment directly to the landowner.
- Participants are also eligible to apply for the native for invasive trade in program.
How to get started:
This program received a large amount of interest and the funding as all been allocated at this time. We are actively looking for new funding sources for this effort. If you would like to be notified if/when applications reopen, please submit your name and email in the form above.
This program received a large amount of interest and the funding as all been allocated at this time. We are actively looking for new funding sources for this effort. If you would like to be notified if/when applications reopen, please submit your name and email in the form above.
- Review the program application here.
- Contact the contractor(s) of your choice to get a written quote(s). Please note that the quote must only cover callery pear removal-- any other work must be on a separate quote.
- Submit the cost share application which includes uploading photos the tree(s), the circumference measurement of the tree(s), and uploading the quote of the contractor you intend on working with.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and you will be notified of your approval/denial within two weeks.
- Once approved, the landowner has two months to have the tree removed and submit the final paperwork which includes photos and a receipt/invoice showing the full payment to the contractor.
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Supporting partners
Get more money back by using one of our supporting partners who are offering discounted rates on invasive callery pear removal!
These contractors are offering a 20-30% discount on removal of callery pear trees!
Get more money back by using one of our supporting partners who are offering discounted rates on invasive callery pear removal!
These contractors are offering a 20-30% discount on removal of callery pear trees!
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