NYSDEC is now using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones) for a variety of monitoring purposes around the State. This terrific video, followed by the official NYSDEC press release, shows you the projects undertaken thus far. The ones that will perhaps interest the NYS urban [...]
Volunteers powered 2017 fall bare root tree planting in municipalities across Onondaga County. Photos Courtesy CCE Onondaga County From Clare Carney, Natural Resource Educator for CCE Onondaga County: This year, as part of an Onondaga County Community Development Block Grant, CCE Onondaga worked with multiple [...]
photo by Steve Cothrel The 2018 SMA Urban Tree of the Year is native to much of the Eastern United States and is cold hardy to Zone 4 and heat hardy to Zone 8b or 9. You may associate it with forests, but not so [...]
Up with Trees headquarters in Tulsa. Photo: upwithtrees.org Recently, Council members such as Past President Andy Hillman, Secretary Steve Harris, Board Member James Kaechele, and myself (Blog Editor Michelle Sutton) attended the Annual Conference of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA). It was held November [...]
Cornell Cooperative Extension just came out with a helpful bulletin about Amynthas worms. It includes images showing how to tell apart invasive European worms and the more damaging Amynthas worms, and advice on how to prevent their spread. Limited research on potential predators to hope control this pest shows that [...]
NYSDEC Senior Forester Greg Owens facilitated native tree planting and other activities in the All About Trees workshop. Photo by Diana Pedi The 22nd New York City Green Horizons middle school careers event was held October 19, 2017 in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. [...]
Numbers represent the respective US Congressional Districts. Twelve federal congressmen and women cover the five boroughs of NYC. Thank you to NYC ReLeaf Planning Committee Member Nancy Wolf and NYC ReLeaf Committee Co-chair and NYSUFC Board Member Andrew Newman for sharing this account with us. Along with [...]
Funding Will Help Support Tree Planting and Other Urban Forestry Projects Statewide Read on to find out about the awardees and their projects Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea). Photo by Rick Harper Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced grant awards totaling $2.3 million for urban forestry [...]
Planting a ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) in Millbrook. Photo by Karen Emmerich On Thursday, October 12, 2017 Hudson Valley ReLeaf and NYSDEC held a workshop called “Back to Basics” hosted at CCE Dutchess County in Millbrook. Sessions were given on tree biology, tree planting specifications, young [...]
Thanks to Danielle Watson, Assistant Director of Government Affairs & External Relations for the Society of American Foresters, for this legislative update (10/24/17) on the federal Urban and Community Forestry budget for FY 2018. In his budget proposal earlier this year, the President had zeroed out funding for UCF. [...]