December TAKING ROOT News
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12, 2019
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12, 2019
Callery Pear Tree Buy-Back Event: A Template from Missouri
Like so many regions in New York, nearly every corner of Missouri has been hit hard with the invasive spread of Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana spp.). Callery pears are self-sterile, but it turns out they readily cross-pollinate with other cultivars. Also, the rootstock upon which a Bradford [...]
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12, 2019
SMA Announces Hackberry as 2020 Urban Tree of the Year
Young hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) used in extended road median in Poughkeepsie. Photo by Michelle Sutton Each fall, members of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) nominate and vote for the SMA Urban Tree of the Year. You can see a list of winners going back [...]
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11, 2019
Watertown’s Fall Tree Planting Attracts >60 Volunteers
Photo by Sam Booth Watertown’s 2019 Annual Fall Volunteer Tree Planting Project attracted more than 60 volunteers (many from Tree Watertown) to plant 28 bare root trees. The volunteer tree planting project was paid for in part by a $3000 grant from the Northern New [...]
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11, 2019
Capital Region ReLeaf Hosts Chainsaw Safety Workshop
This GIF is from the recent Capital Region ReLeaf Chainsaw Safety Workshop in Schenectady, taught by Consulting Forester Mike Burns. Mike demonstrated the effect of chainsaws on “flesh” (ham) and then showed how chaps stop the saw. The workshop had 37 attendees across two sessions from around [...]
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11, 2019
2020 Quick Start Grants Info & Application
The New York State Urban Forestry Council is pleased to announce available funding for communities to hold a 2020 Arbor Day tree planting event and to establish a community-based forestry program. Many blog posts have appeared here about past recipients of this grant and how they used [...]
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November TAKING ROOT News
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10, 2019
USDA Declares NYC Free of the Asian Longhorned Beetle
On October 10, 2019, NYC Parks replanted a katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) in McCarren Park in Brooklyn as part of the commemoration of the eradication of ALB in Brooklyn and Queens. Photo by NYC Parks Tree Preservation Senior Program Manager Danielle Gift On October 10, [...]
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10, 2019
Sprout Lands: Book Review
Pollarded willows, Pixabay Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Review by Michelle Sutton, NYSUFC Editor “Coppice and pollard … we should know these words again, for by means of them, people built their world out of wood for ten thousand years.” —William [...]
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10, 2019
Underutilized Trees for Urban Use: Carolina Silverbell
Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina) flowers. Photo from MOBOT Plant Finder (missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder) Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina) produces fruits that look more like winged footballs than bells. Thus, one taxonomic synonym for this tree is Halesia tetraptera, where tetraptera means “four wings.” Carolina silverbell falls in that [...]