The MA Tree Wardens’ meeting on January 9-10, 2024 offered opportunities for learning, networking and fun. The state is different, some of the terminology is different, but New York and Massachusetts share most of the same concerns and have much to teach each other. [...]
Contributing Writer: Doug Still, Consulting Arborist; Host and Producer, This Old Tree radio show and podcast; Providence, R.I. City Forester (2005 to 2022); Past President, Society of Municipal Arborists. Good trees don’t always make good neighbors. We’d like to think so, but “boundary trees” [...]
Join DEC's Hudson River Estuary Program for a virtual Women in Science Winter Speaker Series, four free webinars which take place January 10th, 17th, February 7th and 21st, 2024. Meet and learn from scientists, researchers and environmental educators who work at the intersection of conservation and environmental [...]
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman reflects upon the diversity of specimens that might earn the status of a favorite. What's your favorite tree? It’s a simple question. One I [...]
Yellow Birch-A Real Live ENT!/Photo Steve Harris “Land really is the best art.” — Andy Warhol
Would you like to make a difference in helping kids to grow up appreciating, valuing, and knowing something about trees? NYSUFC is currently enrolling mentors for a pilot grant program called the TREE TEAM, which has been initiated to help winning New York State schools move [...]
Contributing writer: Matthew López-Jensen, Bronx-based Interdisciplinary Environmental Artist. All photos courtesy Matthew López-Jensen. The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry is a fifteen-foot-long community embroidered work of art — and it is also a map of the neighborhoods and commercial buildings in the Northwest Bronx, built on former marshland. [...]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has announced the 2024 Catskills Fire Tower Challenge to highlight the world-class tourism destinations and recreational opportunities in the Catskill Park. Launched in 2019, the Challenge draws participants from every region of New York, as well as 11 other [...]
Fall Near Hemlock Lake/Photo Noreen Riordan, birdsong landscape design “You inherit the autumns, folded like festive clothing in the memories of poets; and all the winters, like abandoned fields, bequeath you their quietness.” — Rainier Maria Rilke
Contributing Writer: Marc Ferris, author of Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem (Johns Hopkins University Press); contributor, River Journal, Highlands Current, Chronogram and Albany Times Union. Reprinted from River Journal. Irvington Woods Park is a special place. Beyond being the [...]