A USD 5,000 TREE Fund award for students pursuing arboriculture or a closely related field. Robert Felix was a long-serving executive of the National Arborist Association, the body that became the Tree Care Industry Association, and the scholarship reflects that industry-facing tradition - it is aimed at people heading into commercial and municipal tree care rather than purely academic botany. Applications open 15 January and close 15 March each year through TREE Fund's grant and scholarship portal. Students in forestry, horticulture and plant science programmes who are willing to specialise in tree care will find this a much shallower applicant pool than the general environmental science awards they usually compete in.