Courtney Bradt of Amsterdam, NY captured the winning photograph for the DEC’s 2024 NYS Arbor Day poster! DEC Urban and Community Forestry received more than one hundred submissions for this year’s contest, making the selection process pleasantly challenging for the Arbor Day Poster Committee. Posters, as [...]
When you can’t do the rock walk or find logs to use as stepping stones to navigate through muddy areas, the next best option is to embrace the mud! With spring seeming to come earlier this year, so is mud season. Trying to avoid a mud puddle [...]
Cornus kousa 'Satomi'Planted With Diameter Size of a Pencil in 1999/Photo Christine Banigan “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther [...]
ReLeaf Workshop: EHAT and First Aid/CPR (In-person Training) Electrical hazard awareness training will be held again this year May 1 and 2, 2024 at the Italian American Community Center of Rochester. If you attended in previous years, you will receive a link to register when registration opens. [...]
Contributing Writer: Leanna Nugent, Community Forestry & Natural Resources Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County The Town of Geddes and the Village of Camillus were each designated as a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. The Arbor Day Foundation annually awards [...]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has launched a new podcast, “DEC Does What?!” to spotlight the important work of DEC experts working to protect New Yorkers and the state’s environment. Hosted by Executive Deputy Commissioner Sean Mahar and Chief of Staff Erica Ringewald, [...]
For the second consecutive Thursday, representatives of New York State Tree Lines, Tree Campuses and Tree Cities gathered to celebrate their accomplishments in 2023, this week at SUNY New Paltz. State Forester Fiona Watt kicked off the morning with some remarks on the achievements [...]
This in-person climate-stewardship-focused workshop will allow participants to learn about a variety of topics, including beech leaf disease, urban trees and carbon, NYC Housing Authority tree projects, youth involvement in green careers, and the Woodlawn Arboretum. Hosted by ReLeaf Region 2, the event will take place [...]
Sixty people from twenty-nine Tree City communities, one Tree Line and six Tree Campuses gathered at the SKY Armory in Syracuse on March 21, 2024 for the annual NYSDEC Recognition Event to honor Arbor Day Foundation awardees. The weather was [...]
Great Elm, Crotona Park/Matthew Lopez-Jensen “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary [...]