Essays and Reflections

5 02, 2024

Planting Trees in Riparian Areas: Some Questions and Answers

By |2024-02-05T12:35:31-05:00February 5th, 2024|Categories: Essays and Reflections, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest|Comments Off on Planting Trees in Riparian Areas: Some Questions and Answers

Guest Contributor: Nick May, Senior Project Manager, Ecosulis, U.K. The role of trees in riparian areas is an important topic, particularly in an ever-changing world where the scale of impacts from climate change seems to be worsening by the day. Having been [...]

24 01, 2024

Winter Tree ID: Bark, Buds, and Needle Leaves

By |2024-01-24T10:13:58-05:00January 24th, 2024|Categories: Arboriculture, Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on Winter Tree ID: Bark, Buds, and Needle Leaves

Guest Contributor: Georgia Silvera Seamans, Founder, Local Nature Lab; Director, Washington Square Park Eco Projects All photos courtesy Georgia Silvera Seamans Winter is the most wonderful time of the year to notice some of the features of deciduous trees that are overshadowed [...]

8 01, 2024

When Neighbors Need Arbor Mediation

By |2024-01-06T18:36:41-05:00January 8th, 2024|Categories: Arboriculture, Essays and Reflections, Innovative Projects and Programs|Comments Off on When Neighbors Need Arbor Mediation

Contributing Writer: Doug Still, Consulting Arborist; Host and Producer, This Old Tree radio show and podcast; Providence, R.I. City Forester (2005 to 2022); Past President, Society of Municipal Arborists. Good trees don’t always make good neighbors. We’d like to think so, but “boundary trees” [...]

27 12, 2023

Stitching a Future: The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry

By |2023-12-23T15:23:47-05:00December 27th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections, History, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Stitching a Future: The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry

Contributing writer: Matthew López-Jensen, Bronx-based Interdisciplinary Environmental Artist. All photos courtesy Matthew López-Jensen. The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry is a fifteen-foot-long community embroidered work of art — and it is also a map of the neighborhoods and commercial buildings in the Northwest Bronx, built on former marshland. [...]

20 11, 2023

Inside a Christmas Tree Farm

By |2023-11-19T21:59:26-05:00November 20th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on Inside a Christmas Tree Farm

Contributing writer: Karen Emmerich, Town of Warwick Tree Commissioner and NYSUFC Board Member Running a Christmas tree farm is probably one of the happiest jobs you could ever have. Don’t get me wrong, the work can be hard, frustrating and demanding, but [...]

9 11, 2023

A Tour of Smithsonian Gardens

By |2023-11-06T17:58:44-05:00November 9th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on A Tour of Smithsonian Gardens

The 2nd World Forum offered some fantastic field trips. A tour of Smithsonian Gardens was one. The property encompasses fourteen major spaces and some smaller ones as well. We took the two-and-a-half-mile loop to see only a fraction of what they have to offer. It [...]

24 10, 2023

Ancient Oaks Stand Tall to Honor the Buffalo Soldiers

By |2023-10-24T19:49:00-04:00October 24th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on Ancient Oaks Stand Tall to Honor the Buffalo Soldiers

Guest contributor: Nathan Davila, Arborist, Utility and Urban Forester in San Diego County with Davey Resource Group and the SDG&E Sustainable Tree Program. All photos courtesy Nathan Davila. As time goes on and the seasons change, the landscape evokes memories in the [...]

16 10, 2023

Writing for the Trees: Cornell Botanic Gardens

By |2023-10-16T15:14:28-04:00October 16th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on Writing for the Trees: Cornell Botanic Gardens

In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman takes a personal view of going on a garden tour with a savvy guide. Purple and gold season is how Cornell Botanic Gardens’s docent [...]

16 10, 2023

The 3:30:300 Rule Takes Root

By |2023-10-15T23:03:07-04:00October 16th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on The 3:30:300 Rule Takes Root

Guest Contributor: Cecil Konijnendijk, Nature Based Solutions Institute With a growing demand for more trees and green spaces in our cities, there is a call for clear guidelines and tools that can help planners and other decisionmakers. Ideally these strategies use the best available scientific [...]

5 10, 2023

Home Tree Value Fallacies and Truths

By |2023-10-02T15:23:27-04:00October 5th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Comments Off on Home Tree Value Fallacies and Truths

Contributing Writer: Chris Olson BCMA/TRAQ All photos courtesy of Chris Olson. Fact or fiction: Do trees make home values fall? It’s no secret that trees have benefits. Front-line warriors in climate change, they accomplish more than we oft-times remember: oxygen creation, [...]

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