Drones in the Urban Forest, Part 1: NYSDEC’s Drone Program Takes Off
NYSDEC is now using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones) for a variety of monitoring purposes around the State. This terrific video, followed by the official NYSDEC press release, shows you the projects undertaken thus far. The ones that will perhaps interest the NYS urban [...]
NYU Students Tend Street Trees through NYC Parks Stewardship Program
by Nichole Henderson-Roy, Senior Stewardship Manager, Forestry, Horticulture & Natural Resources, NYC Parks On August 29th and 30th, 2017, the NYC Parks Stewardship program welcomed the first-year class of the NYU College of Arts and Sciences to New York in a truly grand style. Over two days, 1,435 students [...]
Meet the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy 2017 Summer Field Interns
NYC's Natural Areas Conservancy welcomed nine summer field interns from the City University of New York (CUNY). Over the course of eight weeks, the CUNY teams are studying NYC’s ecological health in 12 parks in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Led by Conservancy ecologists, the students are collecting data on [...]
NYC Green Infrastructure Tour at ReLeaf
Maria Corporan is Gardener/Supervisor for NYC DEP Queens green infrastructure maintenance crews. She discussed the success of different plant species for NYC rain gardens, experimentation with new plants, and how maintenance needs change through the seasons. Photo by Dan Lambe New York City’s Green Infrastructure [...]
Sponsorship of Municipal Forestry Programs & Events
Rock climbing at Surrey’s Party for the Planet, a daylong celebration made possible by cultivating sponsorships. For three years, the Council has been administering Arbor Day grants that provide funding to communities who wanted to have their first-ever Arbor Day celebrations and begin to build [...]
New Urban Forest Carbon Registry Will Create Revenue for City Trees
Story and images by Mark McPherson, Executive Director of the Urban Forest Carbon Registry The urban forests of the U.S. are long overdue to earn certified carbon credits. Carbon buyers purchased $700 million in carbon credits in the U.S. over the last decade ($4.5 billion worldwide). Yet [...]
Another Successful Save the Rain Tree Planting Event
Volunteers gathering for the fall, 2016 Save the Rain tree planting event. Photos Courtesy Save the Rain Save the Rain is Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s comprehensive program to improve the environment and clean Onondaga Lake by reducing the stormwater runoff that enters the sewer [...]
The Phenomenal, Interactive New York City Street Tree Map
Using data from the TreesCount! 2015 inventory, NYC Parks brings us the interactive New York City Street Tree Map, the world's most extensive, accurate, and detailed tree map. With the Map, anyone can access data about any street tree in the City. Users can learn about [...]
Top Seven Blog Posts of 2016
Our Council's blog was viewed more than 19,500 times in 2016! Here are the year's seven most-viewed posts. Blight-resistant chestnut seedlings. Photo by Allen Nichols Over a thousand people read Participate in the Reintroduction of the American Chestnut … by Simply Planting a Few Nuts. "Now [...]