Funding

28 04, 2018

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Announces $2.2 Million in UCF Grants

By |2018-04-28T22:38:52-04:00April 28th, 2018|Categories: Arbor Day, Awards, Funding, Tree City USA|Tags: , |0 Comments

Also in this update from the Governor’s office: DEC Honored with 10-Year Achievement in Sustainable Forest Management Status for Forest Certification Student and State Arbor Day Poster Contest Winners Announced Highlighting Albany’s 16th Year as a Tree City USA Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced $2.2 million [...]

27 04, 2018

Federal Urban Forestry Policy & Funding Update

By |2018-04-27T05:30:51-04:00April 27th, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Courtesy Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition (SUFC) Testimony Submitted for FY 19 Budget The SUFC Policy Working Group recently submitted testimony to the House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittees urging support and funding for U.S. Forest Service, EPA, and National Park Service programs related to urban forests. The Working Group also submitted testimony to [...]

27 03, 2018

2018 Omnibus Bill Contains Good News for our Urban Forests

By |2018-03-27T05:42:16-04:00March 27th, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding|Tags: |0 Comments

Calls, emails, letters, and in-person visits to federal legislators by advocates for Urban and Community Forestry have paid off! You'll recall President Trump's proposed FY 18 Budget zeroed out funding for UCF. Citizens and UCF advocacy groups sprung into action to educate our representatives in Congress about [...]

21 03, 2018

Manuel Alarcon is 2018 Recipient of Helen Sternberg Cutler Memorial Scholarship in Urban Forestry

By |2018-03-21T22:24:43-04:00March 21st, 2018|Categories: Funding|Tags: , , |0 Comments

By Lewis Cutler I am pleased to announce that Manuel A. Alarcon, a senior at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), was awarded the Helen Sternberg Cutler Memorial Scholarship in Urban Forestry for 2018. He will be graduating with a BS in Forest [...]

15 03, 2018

City Forest Credits (Formerly Urban Forest Carbon Registry) Update

By |2018-03-15T21:32:55-04:00March 15th, 2018|Categories: Funding, Innovative Projects and Programs, Nonprofits|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

  By Mark McPherson, Director, City Forest Credits A year ago, I wrote for the Council blog about the Urban Forest Carbon Registry, a non-profit organization based in Seattle. The Registry developed the first-ever Tree Preservation Carbon Protocol that enables urban forest preservation projects to earn carbon [...]

17 02, 2018

An Important Book for this Challenging Moment

By |2018-02-17T12:27:33-05:00February 17th, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding, History|Tags: , , |0 Comments

As mentioned in the previous post, Jill Jonnes’s heralded 2016 book, Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape, is a key resource for educating and inspiring ourselves, our fellow citizens, and our legislators as we seek to protect our urban forests. Here’s a review. [...]

17 02, 2018

President Trump’s FY19 Federal Budget Cuts UCF to Zero

By |2018-02-17T10:11:10-05:00February 17th, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding|0 Comments

Even as the FY18 federal budget picture for UCF is unclear, President Trump's FY19 proposed budget zeroes out urban and community forestry. We who treasure this world of endeavor--urban forestry--are charged with communicating its value (economic and intangible) to our legislators, and to do so year-round. We can [...]

31 01, 2018

Impact of State Forestry Agencies & UCF Reaffirmed by NASF Survey

By |2018-01-31T22:47:45-05:00January 31st, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

The 2016 National Association of State Foresters (NASF) Survey, “State Foresters by the Numbers,” shows that even as the funding for Urban and Community Forestry through state agencies has declined, the number of communities served has gone up. In 2016, overall funding support for state forestry agency [...]

23 01, 2018

NYC Parks’ Liam Kavanagh Brings Big-Picture Discussion to Council Board

By |2018-01-23T21:52:06-05:00January 23rd, 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Funding, Grants, Innovative Projects and Programs, Nonprofits, NYC, Organizational News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

NYC Parks Commissioner Liam Kavanagh. Photo by Michelle Sutton, from 2016 SMA Conference 2016 Last month, NYC Parks First Deputy Commissioner  Liam Kavanagh came and spoke with the Council Board at their meeting at the NYSDEC Region 2 office on Long Island. Commissioner Kavanagh discussed three [...]

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