Specifications include, but are not limited to: Task 1 - Massachusetts Statewide and Urban Forestry Planning - Develop a comprehensive tree demand plan that will ensure that EEA understands the total supply needs of all agency urban forestry and statewide reforestation programs from 2025-2050. a. Research all existing and/or anticipated EEA agencies’ tree planting programs and determine the anticipated quantity of trees needed to meet EEA tree planting goals (in the 2025/2030 and 2050 Clean Energy and Climate Plans (CECPs) and other program goals): i. throughout the Commonwealth from 2025-2050, including in urban settings for cooling, urban greenspaces, and urban riparian areas. b. Determine the anticipated tree nursery acreage needed to meet the demand for trees given key growth factors, including but not limited to the following, preferred native tree species and genetics, increasing tree biodiversity, unit cost, and future climate change conditions. c. Recommend the preferred range of DBH and species needed to meet anticipated tree demand and provide an estimated range of costs for different DBH and species as root balls, container saplings or seedlings, and bare root seedlings for supply and budget planning. d. Model the impact the EEA tree planting programs will have on reducing urban heat islands and providing regional cooling from forested land cover. e. Model the available land in cities on which trees can be planted to determine whether EEA goals can be met in the areas that currently have active urban tree planting programs, or require additional site preparation. Task 2. Massachusetts Tree Nursery Planning - Recommend a comprehensive and actionable tree nursery strategy that will ensure that EEA understands the supply needs and associated proposed tree nursery details to meet our urban forestry and statewide reforestation demand needs from 2025-2050 in a multi-faceted and multi-phased program. a. Calculate the tree supply shortages, if any, for EEA tree canopy programs between 2025- 2050. Identify other bottlenecks that may become the limiting factor in tree planting and reforestation once tree supply shortages have been addressed. b. Propose strategies to enhance partnerships with private nurseries in Massachusetts and/or other New England states and New York, including incentives, opportunities for long term contracts/forward contracting, other financial mechanisms, etc. that would be sufficient to incentivize nurseries to increase their production of tree seeds and stock enough to meet the goals for both urban and streambank/restoration tree planting from the 2025/30 and 2050 CECPs and other EEA tree planting program goals...