Kicking off at 8:00am on Monday 16 October, plan to pick up your name badge at the Renaissance Washington on Sunday, October 15th from 2pm-7pm. Every badge picked up on Sunday will plant a tree in Madagascar to restore critical lemur habitat. Learn more about this important [...]
New York State Association of Conservation Commissions President Simon Skolnik shared his perspective on the goals of the organization. This is a fortuitous time for the group, according to Skolnik. NYSACC was founded by NY Department of Environmental Conservation in 1972 as an independent organization representing conservation [...]
Contributing Writer: Chris Olson BCMA/TRAQ All photos courtesy of Chris Olson. Fact or fiction: Do trees make home values fall? It’s no secret that trees have benefits. Front-line warriors in climate change, they accomplish more than we oft-times remember: oxygen creation, [...]
Elm and Sycamore, Clinch River Valley, Virginia/Photo Nancy Wolf “…whatever comes One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed.” -Ezra Pound
Is there a fantastic book about trees that you love, that furnishes terrific information, that you’re always pressing upon friends and colleagues? Consider recommending that great book with Taking Root’s new occasional feature, Sylvan Bookshelf! Here’s all you need to do. Select the book. Briefly answer [...]
Syracuse was the hub for important education, thoughtful discussion and good networking at NYSA’s Fall Conference. Outside the DoubleTree Hilton, late summer hydrangeas ran riot. Inside, the meeting got underway. New York State Urban Forestry Council offered cookies and information on grants [...]
Taking Root conducted an informal survey at the New York State Arborists Conference in Syracuse September 17-18. We said: Under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Federal government has just allocated over one billion dollars for 400 projects involving trees and green spaces in all [...]
Guest contributor: Alexander Senauke, Blog at www.setting-roots.com All photographs courtesy of Alexander Senauke. Like many people I’ve met who work in arboriculture, my path into the industry was fairly circuitous. More unusual is the fact that my interest in trees was stirred [...]
Storm Response: Before, During and After Western NY (R8/R9) ReLeaf Workshop November 2, 2023 8:30 am to 2:30 pm. One-hundred-year storms are occurring more frequently now than ever before. The impacts of storms on urban trees can be dramatic, and storm response is an expensive and dangerous [...]
In the September/October edition of City Trees Magazine: SMA Member Survey Results Can Urban Forestry be the Ideal Profession? Exploring Inclusive Alternatives to "Citizen Science" Engage Your Community with the New OurTrees Tool from i-Tree NYC Urban Bird Explorers Guide: Tree-Focused and Beautiful Live Oak with Brittany [...]