San Jose’s Our City Forest loses huge piece of federal funding

San Jose’s Our City Forest loses huge piece of federal funding

For more than 30 years, Our City Forest has been working to increase the number of trees in San Jose and Santa Clara County, providing free street trees to homeowners and staging planting events in parks, schools and other community spaces throughout the region. But that work is threatened now thanks to — you guessed it — budget cuts at the federal level. Rhonda Berry, the urban forestry nonprofit’s founding president and CEO, said the group was…