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Council’s Jean Zimmerman and Andy Hillman Contribute “Tree Story Shorts” to This Old Tree Podcast
One of two mature copper beech (Fagus sylvatica Atropurprea) at Wave Hill in the Bronx. Photo by Jean Zimmerman Council Board Members Jean Zimmerman and Andy Hillman were featured recently on Doug Still's This Old Tree podcast. Jean, an arborist, author of seven books, blogger, and co-chair of [...]
2nd World Forum on Urban Forests Oct 16-20 in Washington DC to Integrate SMA and PCF Conferences
The first World Forum on Urban Forests was held in Mantua, Italy (Mantova in Italian) in 2018. New Yorkers are fortunate that attending the second WFUF is more in reach: it will be Oct 16-20, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The New York State Urban Forestry Council will be accepting applications [...]
Webinar on Navigating Grant Funding: Municipal Success Stories
Webinar: Navigating Grant Funding: Municipal Success Stories On March 1st, 2023, at 1 p.m., please join the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York State Association of Regional Councils on a webinar to hear other municipalities discuss successful strategies to access and manage grant funding. Municipalities will share [...]
NYSUFC 2022 Annual Report is Live!
See Report as PDF See Report as Flip-mag on Issuu Our 2022 Annual Report features Penfield's rousing first-ever Arbor Day celebration; the 2022 NY ReLeaf Conference in Watertown; Nancy Wolf's History of Urban and Community Forestry in NY, Part 2; and Nina Bassuk's partial retirement and recognition by the Council [...]
Executive Secretary Transition for the Council, Our Gratitude to Liana Gooding
Liana Gooding served as Executive Secretary for the Council from early 2015 to the end of 2022. Those eight years were highly productive years for the Council in good measure because of Liana’s competence, reliability, consistency, and patient nature. “She was my right-hand person the whole time I was President,” [...]
February TAKING ROOT News
2023 NY ReLeaf Conference; Quick Start Grants; DEC Tree Seedling Sale; Advice for Writing about Urban and Community Forestry Read this month's TAKING ROOT news here and subscribe here.
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