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DEC’s Lowville Arboretum in the North Country, with Glen Roberts
Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) in the Lowville Forestry Demonstration Area Arboretum. Council Board Member and Longtime Region 6 Senior Forester Glen Roberts retired earlier this year after 31 years with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Roberts had the good fortune to work out of a [...]
City Trees Magazine Now Freely Available to All
The Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) Board recently voted to make City Trees freely available to everyone. Here's how you can access City Trees, an international, bimonthly online magazine about all things urban forestry. The Sept/Oct 2022 City Trees is here From the Sept/Oct 2022 link (or any other issue link) [...]
Arbor Day Foundation Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Call for Proposals
Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Call for Proposals: Click HERE to Submit Your T.R.E.E. Proposal Today! From ADF: As the Arbor Day Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary, our simple mission of inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees has had an immense impact all over the globe. In five decades, [...]
Underutilized Trees for Urban Use: Staghorn Sumac
Council Vice President James Kaechele has been walking past this pollinator garden along the Queensboro Bridge for four years. It's a garden in which staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) is functioning as a beautiful mid-sized tree, providing stature and shading other plants. Photos by James Kaechele "I’ve [...]
Council Joins Signatories to Inflation Reduction Act UCF Support Letter
Dear Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi: The undersigned organizations, many of which are members of the Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition, are writing to strongly support the important urban and community forest provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. From combating climate change and creating more equitable communities to improving [...]
ReLeafers Stream into Watertown: A Pictorial Recap
ReLeaf goers were grateful for the tree shade during the Watertown Downtown Arboretum tour. Photo by Karen Emmerich Watertown Planning and Community Development Director Mike Lumbis led the tour of the Watertown Downtown Arboretum. Here, he's alongside the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), planted bare root, in [...]
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