When you can’t do the rock walk or find logs to use as stepping stones to navigate through muddy areas, the next best option is to embrace the mud! With spring seeming to come earlier this year, so is mud season. Trying to avoid a mud puddle [...]
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 [...]
Contributing Writer: Haven Colgate, Chair, Hastings-on-Hudson Conservation Commission I arrived in Hastings-on-Hudson in 2002. Hillside Park & Woods was a marvel to me: twenty minutes from Manhattan and there’s this sylvan oasis: a peaceful one hundred acres of trees and trails, streams and even a pond. [...]
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 [...]
Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) in the Lowville Forestry Demonstration Area Arboretum. Council Board Member and Longtime Region 6 Senior Forester Glen Roberts retired earlier this year after 31 years with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Roberts had the good fortune to work [...]
Interpretive signage for the native trees volunteers planted in the new Native Plant Garden in the Manorhaven Nature Preserve. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” Kahil Gebran Nassau County’s location on Long Island and Port Washington’s location in Nassau County. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rcsprinter123 [...]
In his capacity as Arborist for the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, James Kaechele demonstrated how to properly plant a limón sutil tree (Citrus aurantifolia) to a community in the Peruvian Amazon. All Photos Courtesy James Kaechele & Fruit Tree Planting Foundation What skills does an [...]
(Above) Sergey Jivetin creates elaborate engravings on the shells of seeds, including a series carved on American chestnut seeds depicting The American Chestnut Foundation’s restoration efforts. One nut (enlarged) illustrates the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project’s insertion of the oxalate oxidase gene into the American chestnut [...]
Open-grown (full sun) American chestnut trees can flower in just three years. Photo by Allen Nichols “We need people all over NY and in other states to plant pure wild American chestnuts so they have ‘mother trees’ to cross with our blight-resistant tree, when it [...]
Council member and horticulturist Laura Wyeth, with Japanese knotweed. Photo by Larry Decker Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum; Latin synonym Fallopia japonica) is indisputably a major nuisance in the urban forest. NYC Parks Natural Resources Group has documented extensive research and control methods they’ve used, in [...]