January 2019 TAKING ROOT News
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Renew Membership or Join the Council for Just $25 (Students $10) for 2019
Support urban forestry and community efforts around New York State. Please take a moment to renew your membership or join the Council. It's fast, easy, inexpensive, and means the world! Mailings are rare, and your info is not shared. Thank you!
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Top Seven Blog Posts of 2018
In 2018, among our most-read blog posts were tributes to the Council’s beloved Pat Tobin and Brian Skinner, who passed on from this world, and to former NYSDEC Urban Forestry Program Coordinator Mary Kramarchyk, who left for a new career opportunity. Excluding those special tributes, the following [...]
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SMA Announces 2019 Urban Tree of the Year
American hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) coping admirably well with the heat on the student union patio at Virginia Tech. Photo by Eric Wiseman Each year, members of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) vote for the SMA Urban Tree of the Year. Praise for this year’s winner, American [...]
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ReLeaf 2018 Conference Presentations Online
Weren't able to attend ReLeaf at Rochester last summer? Or attended, but want to revisit content from these popular sessions? The links to the 2018 presentations are here: Plan-It Geo: Tree Plotter Inventory Management Software and Best Practices Chris Peiffer, Director of Urban Forestry ConsultingNew York Tree Law Laura [...]
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Remembering Brian Skinner
Brian at left with his children Melissa, Tracy, Kevin, and Brianne and six of his eight grandkids. Brian’s wife Diane took the photo. If you haven’t had a chance to send in a reflection, editor Michelle will be happy to add it. Please send to [email protected]. There [...]
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12, 2018
It’s December, It’s Taking Root
Your December TAKING ROOT is here! Click here to subscribe to Taking Root, the monthly newsletter of our NYS Urban Forestry Council. See newsletter archives here.
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12, 2018
Bainbridge Celebrates Arbor Day with Seven New Trees
Members of the Bainbridge Garden Club admire a newly planted Japanese tree lilac (Syringa reticulata). Photos Courtesy Village of Bainbridge. Reported by Philip C. Wade, Bainbridge Mayor, Leader of Arbor Date Event The Village of Bainbridge (pop ~ 3300) is located at the eastern edge of Chenango [...]
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Lima Makes Good Use of its Arbor Day Grant Dollars
Eagle Scout candidates plant a tree to shade one of the new benches in Lima’s Mark Tubbs Park. Reporting by John Correll. The Village of Lima (in Livingston County, south of Rochester; pop. ~ 4300) selected Saturday April 14, 2018 for its first-ever Arbor [...]
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Freeville Fall Follow-Up: Arbor Day Planting Part II
Thank you to Tom Cavataio, Member of the Freeville Village Planning Board and Tree Committee, for this excellent report. Another successful tree planting in the Village of Freeville took place on Saturday, November 10th, 2018. You may have read in a previous blog post that we hosted [...]