Rochester has earned a distinction as a Tree City USA from the Arbor Day Foundation, joining more than 3,400 other cities and towns across the United States.

The designation is a result of the town's forestry management efforts last year.

In addition to this news, the Lowe's of Wareham is donating five Leland Cypress trees to the town for planting at the Rochester Police Station, Town Administrator Mike McCue announced on Friday.

This donation is in part the continuation of the Lowe's Heroes project started at the Rochester Senior Center in October.

McCue, said this has been his "pet project." Although he resigned on Thursday to take a position in Hanson, McCue said he would like to represent the town at the Tree City award ceremony this spring.

He plans to coordinate the planting of the cypress trees with a 2016 Arbor Day Celebration, similar to the one held in 2015. At that event the town will be presented with Tree City USA signs to place along the road as well as a Tree City USA flag.

McCue also said he intends to make good on his promise to plant a sapling from a ginkgo that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, something that has been in the works for more than a year. The sapling has been delayed at the Arnold Arboritum in Boston until it is hearty enough to be viably planted.

Arbor Day is April 29.