Navé Strauss has been director of street tree planting for NYC Parks since April 2016. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? Navé Strauss: I grew up in suburban Long Island with a father who is an [...]
NYSUFC Board Member Rachel Holmes is the coordinator of The Nature Conservancy’s urban forestry program called Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities. She is also a Flamenco dancer and a wildland firefighter (read on!). Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? [...]
Council Board Member Art Traver. Photo by Paul Maurer Landscape architect and longtime Council Board Member Art Traver works for Wendel Companies out of their Buffalo office. Were there childhood influences foreshadowing your career? Art Traver: I think I first noticed the “environment” [...]
Council Board Member Mike DeMarco attended the 2017 Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) on scholarship from the Council and NYSDEC. MFI is an immersive, weeklong leadership training for urban forestry professionals. Here, we learn about DeMarco’s takeaways from MFI, his current position, and his work and educational background. [...]
Story and images by Mark McPherson, Executive Director of the Urban Forest Carbon Registry The urban forests of the U.S. are long overdue to earn certified carbon credits. Carbon buyers purchased $700 million in carbon credits in the U.S. over the last decade ($4.5 billion worldwide). Yet [...]
Brenda’s at center, wearing sunglasses, with other members of the proud Red Hook Village Green Committee. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in conservation, trees, and urban forestry? Brenda Cagle: Growing up in West Virginia in the Ohio Valley [...]
Volunteers gathering for the fall, 2016 Save the Rain tree planting event. Photos Courtesy Save the Rain Save the Rain is Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s comprehensive program to improve the environment and clean Onondaga Lake by reducing the stormwater runoff that enters the sewer [...]
In this post, NYSDEC Division of Lands and Forests-Forest Health Oak Wilt Operations Coordinator Jennifer Kotary shares a simple way to prevent the spread of oak wilt. The connection between forest health and urban forestry is apparent in the management of oak wilt, a serious disease [...]
Ed and Betsy Gilman, married 37 years, overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge on a visit to NYC. Dr. Ed Gilman is a popular presenter among NY arborists and members of our state’s U&CF community, giving talks based on his decades of applied research at the University [...]
The BBC reports hilariously on a well-intentioned move by biodiversity advocates on the Aberdeenshire, Scotland Council. You have to watch an ad first, but it is very much worth it. The Aberdeenshire Council spokeswoman said of the site: "Anecdotally [the playing field] was rarely used. However it [...]