Thank you to Richard W. Grover, Chair of the Village of Canton Tree Committee, for sending in photos and details about the Village's fall 2022 planting event. We planted a grove of five native trees on Saturday, November 5, 2022 in Canton Island Park, which is located [...]
The Town of Huntington has been a Tree City USA for 24 years and has received a TCUSA Growth Award for the past 8 years. Town Supervisor Ed Smyth addressed the assembled community members after the fall 2022 tree planting. Town of Huntington (Suffolk County) [...]
Nyack community members gathered in late October to plant 25 bare root trees, commemorate 5 newly planted Ulmus 'Lewis & Clark' elms, celebrate Nyack's 8 years as a Tree City USA, and eat pizza! Thanks to Nyack Tree Committee Chair Marcy Denker for furnishing photos [...]
Members of the Park Avenue Elementary School Student Council helped backfill five tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) trees during the October 2022 fall planting celebration in the Village of Warwick. The Village of Warwick held a tree planting event on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at Veterans Memorial [...]
Village of Perry Tree Board Members Felisa McKay and Dan Zerbe flag fall planting locations for the elm cultivars and other trees selected for planting on Elm Street. Photo by Dan Zerbe Thank you to Village of Perry Tree Board Chair Dan Zerbe for providing [...]
Thanks to Chiu Yin Hempel of the Tuxedo Park Tree Advisory Board for forwarding photos and the following info about this event in Orange County. [Ed. note: the Tuxedo Park Tree Advisory Board website is exceptionally good!] On Friday, November 4, 2022, the Tuxedo Park Tree Advisory [...]
On May 2, 2022 the Town of Bombay (Franklin County; pop. ~ 1357) held its first-ever Arbor Day planting and celebration with 35 folks in attendance. The community planted red maples (Acer rubrum) and Japanese tree lilacs (Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk') and gave away tree seedlings, purchased [...]
The Conservation Board and the Planning Department of the Town of Penfield hosted a tree planting event and giveaway in Rothfuss Park, sponsored in part by a $1000 Quick Start grant from the NYSUFC. We at the Council are really impressed with the event Penfield organized! [...]
Dewitt celebrated 11 years as a Tree City USA in October, 2021, and for the event chose a 3 inch caliper swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) as the first planting on this reclaimed site. This site used to be a gas station! Longtime Tree City [...]
Ulysses “Sylvan Day” fall tree planting of swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor). (The Ulysses Tree Advisory Council refers to an autumn tree planting holiday as “Sylvan Day.”) Left to right are Pamela Markham of the Ulysses Tree Advisory Council and volunteers Alina and her mom Wendy. [...]