Celebrating the award of a record $6.5 million in federal urban forestry grants at a ceremony Wednesday at Government House on St. Croix are, from left, Andres Gonzalez and Maya Quinones of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico, V.I. Agriculture Commissioner Louis Petersen, Assistant Commissioner Diana Collingwood, Olasee Davis, representing the V.I. Trail Alliance, Beattra Wilson, assistant director of the Urban and Community Forestry Program of the U.S. Forest Service, Grizelle Gonzalez and Magaly Figueroa of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, and Sarah Brady, executive director of the St. George Village Botanical Garden. (Government House photo)
