Guest Contributor: Cecil Konijnendijk, Nature Based Solutions Institute With a growing demand for more trees and green spaces in our cities, there is a call for clear guidelines and tools that can help planners and other decisionmakers. Ideally these strategies use the best available scientific [...]
Contributing Writer: Chris Olson BCMA/TRAQ All photos courtesy of Chris Olson. Fact or fiction: Do trees make home values fall? It’s no secret that trees have benefits. Front-line warriors in climate change, they accomplish more than we oft-times remember: oxygen creation, [...]
Guest contributor: Alexander Senauke, Blog at www.setting-roots.com All photographs courtesy of Alexander Senauke. Like many people I’ve met who work in arboriculture, my path into the industry was fairly circuitous. More unusual is the fact that my interest in trees was stirred [...]
Guest Contributor: Georgia Silvera Seamans, Founder, Local Nature Lab; Director, Washington Square Park Eco Projects All photos courtesy of Georgia Silvera Seamans One of my favorite botanical quotes is “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower,” [...]
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman takes a personal view of tree ID. After a cue from John Muir, who preferred the word saunter to hike, I dipped into the largest old-growth tract in Dutchess County New York, [...]
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman takes a look at how female arborists are changing the tree business, from the ground up. Photos courtesy of Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop; American Forests; ISA [...]
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman shares her visit to New York’s High Line Park. The Timber Bridge is a towering anachronism in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of [...]
Fiona Watt joined DEC on February 21, 2023, after more than 25 years at NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. Photo Courtesy NYSDEC We at the NYSUFC are pleased to reprint this piece, with permission, from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Lands [...]
All Ears: Four Noteworthy Podcasts from SMA Members and Friends This feature is an in-depth look at the Your Bird Story, This Old Tree, Plant a Trillion Trees, and The Municipal Arborist podcasts in the May/June City Trees, the magazine produced by the Society of Municipal Arborists [...]
Writing for the Trees: Drawing an Iconic New York City Tree In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author and blogger Jean Zimmerman shares her experience at a Tree Wonder gathering in Washington Square Park. All photos by Jean Zimmerman Would you like [...]