A USD 5,000 TREE Fund award open to high school seniors as well as returning college students entering arboriculture - one of the few plant-science scholarships that will fund someone before they have started a degree. That makes it worth flagging to students still in secondary school who are considering tree care, urban forestry or landscape work, and to career-changers coming back to study. Applications run 15 January to 15 March each year via TREE Fund's grant and scholarship portal. TREE Fund runs six scholarships on this shared cycle, several of which overlap in eligibility, so applicants should read the full set.