The next meeting of the Salisbury Township Environmental Advisory Council will feature two speakers on the topics of cultivating native plants and recommended plants for high-water table areas.

In addition, Salisbury Township residents will be offered free trees and bushes at the meeting.

The township EAC meets 7 p.m. June 19 in the meeting room of the Salisbury Township municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.

Barbara Beck will make a presentation about the relationship between native plants, birds and insects and ways for Salisbury Township as a community to support it.

The presentation seeks to share information about native plants, what they are and why they are important.

It will address why homeowners should consider cultivating them.

Information will be shared applicable to planting in large and small spaces and suggestions for easy-to-grow perennials.

Beck is a Richland Township, Bucks County, Bird Town leader. She has been active on the Bucks Audubon Board, Bucks County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Board and is on the Richland Township Parks and Recreation Board.

Beck is active with Bird Town and other wildlife and conservation efforts. Her hobbies include gardening (with native plants), beekeeping, birding, writing, travel, photography and oil painting.

Maggie Wallner, conservation ecologist, Lehigh County Conservation District, will make a presentation about what plants and trees should be planted in high-water table areas.

Wallner is bringing trees and bushes that will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Trees and bushes that will be brought to the EAC meeting for distribution are:

20 River Birch

20 Black or Silky Willow

20 Smooth Alder

10 Arrowwood Viburnum

10 American Linden

10 Pin Oak

10 Silky Dogwood

10 Button Bush

Any resident who chooses to participate in taking a tree or bush will be required to provide an address, as the trees and bushes are part of a Pennsylvania grant, Salisbury Township Code Enforcement Officer, Assistant Zoning Officer, Rental Inspector Michele Lopez stated in an email to a reporter for The Press.

“If people can sign up that would be great. An email to me is all that is needed to confirm they are coming to the meeting. There will be a sign-in sheet when they get there, as well,” Lopez said. Her email is mlopez@salisburylehighpa.gov.

“If this goes well, we can do another meeting like this with distribution of trees and bushes to residents,” Lopez said.

The Salisbury Township municipal building meeting schedule includes: 7 p.m. June 12: zoning hearing board; 7 p.m. June 13, board of commissioners; 7 p.m. June 19: environmental advisory council; 7 p.m. June 26, planning commission and 7 p.m. June 27, board of commissioners.