{"id":75883,"date":"2025-12-08T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:09:06","slug":"pinellas-park-is-a-tree-city-usa-honoree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75883\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park is a \u2018Tree City USA\u2019 honoree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 2025 &#8211; The Arbor Day Foundation has named Pinellas Park a 2025 Tree City USA in recognition of the city&#8217;s commitment to responsible and effective urban forest management. Pinellas Park earned the designation by maintaining a dedicated tree board or department, upholding a tree-care ordinance, sustaining an annual community forestry budget of at least $2 per resident and hosting an Arbor Day observance ceremony. Urban tree canopies enhance neighborhood appearance, boost property values, lower home cooling costs, filter pollutants and support wildlife habitats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 8, 2025 &#8211; The Arbor Day Foundation has named Pinellas Park a 2025 Tree City USA in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-75883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}