In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman considers the fantastic plants of New York City’s urban forest. Forests and New York City is not a pairing that would make sense [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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. [...]
Contributing writer: Karen Emmerich, Town of Warwick Tree Commissioner and NYSUFC Board Member Running a Christmas tree farm is probably one of the happiest jobs you could ever have. Don’t get me wrong, the work can be hard, frustrating and demanding, but [...]
The 2nd World Forum offered some fantastic field trips. A tour of Smithsonian Gardens was one. The property encompasses fourteen major spaces and some smaller ones as well. We took the two-and-a-half-mile loop to see only a fraction of what they have to offer. It [...]
Guest contributor: Nathan Davila, Arborist, Utility and Urban Forester in San Diego County with Davey Resource Group and the SDG&E Sustainable Tree Program. All photos courtesy Nathan Davila. As time goes on and the seasons change, the landscape evokes memories in the [...]
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman takes a personal view of going on a garden tour with a savvy guide. Purple and gold season is how Cornell Botanic Gardens’s docent [...]