All Ears: Four Noteworthy Podcasts from SMA Members and Friends This feature is an in-depth look at the Your Bird Story, This Old Tree, Plant a Trillion Trees, and The Municipal Arborist podcasts in the May/June City Trees, the magazine produced by the Society of Municipal Arborists [...]
In one of the Urban Eden video series, Nina Bassuk, and Zac Rood of the Cornell Landscape Architecture Department, demonstrated how to select for the best containerized woody plant material. Urban Eden Demonstration Videos from Cornell Horticulture Institute (UHI) Director Dr. Nina Bassuk Nina Bassuk [...]
April 28, 3023 GOVERNOR HOCHUL CELEBRATES ARBOR DAY AND ANNOUNCES $3 MILLION IN GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROJECTS Funding Supports Community Tree Projects to Protect Natural Resources, Air, and Water Quality and Help Combat Climate Change Governor Kathy Hochul today commemorated Arbor Day [...]
Writing for the Trees: Drawing an Iconic New York City Tree In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author and blogger Jean Zimmerman shares her experience at a Tree Wonder gathering in Washington Square Park. All photos by Jean Zimmerman Would you like [...]
At an event today in New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than $1 billion in grants to increase equitable access to trees and green spaces in urban and community forests where more than 84% of Americans live, work and play. The grant funding is [...]
Folks from Tree Campus Higher Education, Tree Line Utilities, and Tree City USA communities networked and shared ideas at the DEC Urban Forestry awards at the Fireside Inn in Baldwinsville (Onondaga County) earlier this month. DEC UCF Partnerships Coordinator Christina McLaughlin gave attendees the prompt, “What [...]
The Legacy of Tree Advocate Hattie Carthan, Landscape Architect Margot Chiuten, Urban Forestry Awards at Vassar, Tree Preservation in NYC, New Issue of City Trees, 2023 NY ReLeaf Conference, more Read this month's TAKING ROOT news here and subscribe here.
Writing for the Trees: Tree Preservation in NYC In this second installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author and blogger Jean Zimmerman shares her experience on one work site in Queens. All photos by Jean Zimmerman The tale of a root in danger is [...]
Margot Chiuten (second from left) with (from left) her wife Shawna Black and their kids Keane, Graem, and Emerson. Dreaming and Building: Margot Chiuten and Chiuten Trowbridge Landscape Architects Margot Chiuten recently founded her own landscape architecture firm with longtime collaborator Peter Trowbridge. In this [...]
Hattie Carthan in 1978; photo from the New York Public Library. An African American Tree Activist Lived in Brooklyn Washington Square Park Eco Projects Director Georgia Silvera Seamans posted this story on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden blog about Hattie Carthan (1900-1984). Silvera Seamans writes, "[Carthan] [...]