Guest Contributor: Georgia Silvera Seamans, Founder, Local Nature Lab; Director, Washington Square Park Eco Projects All photos courtesy Georgia Silvera Seamans The word sprummer is making the rounds on social media. Sprummer describes the time between spring and summer; spring weather is still here and [...]
Contributing Writers: Lillian Jackson and Saturn Rothblatt, 8th grade members of the Liverpool Middle Green Warriors Environmental Club It all started at the beginning of the year when our club, the Liverpool Middle Green Warriors Environmental Club, was trying to think [...]
Aesculus x hippocastanum ‘Fort McNair’. Photo Ulysses Tree Planter “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” —Gustave Flaubert
The New York State Tree Climbing Championship is a gathering of the top tree workers in New York State to display their tree climbing skills and abilities in a series of competitive events. Join them at Washington Park in Albany, NY on Saturday, [...]
This year’s conference features three tracts: equity and engagement, research and technology, and planning and funding. Join your fellow tree people from across the state for talks from: Leslie Berckes– Executive Director, Urban and Community Forestry Society; Deborah Hilbert, Ph.D– Many Trees Consulting; Josh Behounek– Davey [...]
Contributing Writer: Ashley Ely, Class of 2024, North Rockland High School UAccessLife The first thing the assembled audience heard was the North Rockland Symphony Orchestra playing music to commemorate the planting of the Inclusion Tree. For an early celebration of Arbor Day, [...]
Project Learning Tree is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers, educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12. It uses the forest as a window to create awareness and knowledge of the natural world and address environmental issues. PLT [...]
Grant funding is now available for municipalities across the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced $22.5 million is now available for the Climate Smart Communities Grant Program. Eligible projects can include reducing flood risk and emissions from food waste, [...]
The most “tree-tacular” conference in New York is about two months away! Visit the ReLeaf Conference page to register and view the agenda for the ReLeaf Conference and book your hotel room now in the block. This year’s conference features three tracts: equity and engagement, research and technology, [...]
Bronx Community College (BCC) was selected as one of fifty sites nationwide to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: an American sycamore seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission [...]