Trees, Please!
Tree Hugger/Photo Ariel Farber “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being." — Victor Hugo
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02, 2024
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02, 2024
Save the Date! ReLeaf Conference 2024
The annual ReLeaf Conference will be held July 24-26, 2024 at the Hilton Albany hotel in downtown Albany. Mark your calendars—registration will open in May!
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02, 2024
Free Webinar on April 4, 2024, Noon-1p.m.: SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard promotes sustainable urban and community forests based on sixteen objectives. This standard is appropriate for organizations that own, manage, or are responsible for urban and/or community forests. These organizations can come from all facets of the urban [...]
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02, 2024
Upcoming Tree Recognition Events!
Mark your calendars to attend these two Tree City USA Recognition Events: March 21, 2024: Syracuse March 28 2024: New Paltz More information to follow!
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02, 2024
Planting Trees in Riparian Areas: Some Questions and Answers
Guest Contributor: Nick May, Senior Project Manager, Ecosulis, U.K. The role of trees in riparian areas is an important topic, particularly in an ever-changing world where the scale of impacts from climate change seems to be worsening by the day. Having been [...]
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02, 2024
Could Your K-12 School Qualify for a 2024 NYSUFC Tree Campus Grant?
New York State Urban Forestry Council (NYSUFC) invites your school to participate in an exciting new program: the TREE TEAM! The TREE TEAM is a collaboration between K-12 schools and tree professionals, with the goal of moving schools toward recognition as an Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus [...]
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01, 2024
In the Latest Issue of City Trees
In the January-February edition of City Trees Magazine: Lorax in Training: Cesar Garcia's Summer Adventure with the City of Berkeley The Resilient Canopy: Claudia Alzate on Trialing Trees in Cul-de-Sacs and Success with Native Evergreens in Coral Springs, Florida U.S. Forest Service: Street Tree Diversity Reveals [...]
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01, 2024
Winter Tree ID: Bark, Buds, and Needle Leaves
Guest Contributor: Georgia Silvera Seamans, Founder, Local Nature Lab; Director, Washington Square Park Eco Projects All photos courtesy Georgia Silvera Seamans Winter is the most wonderful time of the year to notice some of the features of deciduous trees that are overshadowed [...]
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01, 2024
Trees, Please!
Tulip Tree/Photo Noreen Riordan, birdsong landscape design “I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like [...]
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01, 2024
Not Yet a Tree City USA? Apply by March 7, 2024 for Quick Start Grant
The New York State Urban Forestry Council is pleased to announce available funding for communities to hold a tree planting event in the spring of 2024 celebrating Arbor Day and to establish a community-based forestry program. Communities can apply for up to $1,000. Funding has been provided [...]