{"id":2001,"date":"2026-06-25T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:55:13","slug":"big-tree-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/2026\/06\/25\/big-tree-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tree Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Coshocton SWCD is sponsoring its annual \u201cBig Tree Contest.\u201d&nbsp; This contest is open to all species of trees growing on privately owned property in Coshocton County.&nbsp; Property line trees and trees growing on federal, state, or local government land are not eligible.&nbsp; Any person can enter a tree physically located in Coshocton County whether or not the tree is growing on the nominator\u2019s property. The Big Tree Contest is a county-wide contest, while the \u201cCoshocton Is Blooming\u201d category is limited to trees growing within the City of Coshocton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All entries must be received by 4:30 p.m. on August 25, 2026.&nbsp; Entries will be measured by a representative from the Coshocton SWCD using the national standardized measurement criteria.&nbsp; The owners of the two \u201cBig Trees\u201d will each receive a plaque at Coshocton SWCD\u2019s Annual Meeting &amp; Banquet to be held October 15 at the Lake Park Pavilion. Entry forms are also available at the Coshocton SWCD office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/06\/Big-Tree-Entry-Form.pdf\">Big Tree Entry Form<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our technicians will measure the trees, but if you are interested in how they are measured, this is a good resource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/Measuring-a-Big-Tree.pdf\">Measuring a Big Tree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coshocton SWCD is sponsoring its annual \u201cBig Tree Contest.\u201d&nbsp; This contest is open to all species of trees growing on privately owned property in Coshocton County.&nbsp; Property line trees and trees growing on federal, state, or local government land are not eligible.&nbsp; Any person can enter a tree physically located in Coshocton County whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}