Guest Contributor: Georgia Silvera Seamans, founder of Local Nature Lab, a nature education nonprofit based in New York City. She holds a PhD from University of California Berkeley and is an adjunct professor of environmental studies. She has published peer-reviewed articles in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening  and Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. She [...]

Guest Contributor: Emily Nobel Maxwell, Founder and Principal, Nobel Cause Consulting, Senior Advisor, Urban Forestry, City Parks Foundation Part Two of a two-part post. Article originally published in Vital City. Part One: https://nysufc.org/every-neighborhood-leafy-part-one/2024/09/19/ Some fairly recent government investments are helping put more trees where people need [...]

Guest Contributor: Emily Nobel Maxwell, Founder and Principal, Nobel Cause Consulting, Senior Advisor, Urban Forestry, City Parks Foundation Part One of a two-part post. Article adapted courtesy of Vital City. In Fall 2023, two important laws related to the urban forest went into effect in New York [...]

Tree Talk attended the 31st Annual New York ReLeaf Conference (July 24-26, 2024) and asked attendees: What draws you to this ReLeaf Conference? Here are some of their responses. Abraham Watkins: “I would like to explore how other people plant trees and also the [...]