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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Contributing Writer: Kristopher Williams, Invasive Species Coordinator, Capital Region Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management The Village of Ballston Spa Park and Tree Board sponsored an informative and fun Arbor Day Tree Planting and Maintenance Demonstration at Kelly Park on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Two American [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Be a part of the 2023 Tree City USA community in New York. Apply for Tree City USA status by December 1st, 2023. Last year, New York State had 174 approved Tree Cities, one of the best showings in the country! Want to learn more about the Tree [...]
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 [...]