Baldcypress grove in Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery. Photo by Michelle Sutton Round 13 of the NYSDEC Urban Forestry Grants Program was announced on December 22, 2016. NYSDEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced the availability of $2.3 million for Round 13. Applications are due by March 1, [...]
Volunteers prep to plant a weeping larch in Perry’s Village Park on Arbor Day 2016. Photos by Steve Townes The Village of Perry is another community that received Arbor Day 2016 funding through our Council in partnership with the [...]
Carolynn Sears (Conservation and Tree Board) , Michael Kagan (Pound Ridge Land Conservancy), Susan Lee (Pound Ridge Garden Club), Bonnie Schwartz (Town Board), Gail Jankus (Planning), and Richard Lyman (Town Supervisor) admire one of the twin American Beeches planted near the Pound Ridge Town House on [...]
Otisville, NY Garden Club members planted this red maple and other trees as part of the Village's 2016 Arbor Day celebration, which was supported by an Arbor Day grant from the New York State Urban Forestry Council. Communities that are just getting their urban [...]
Author Jenny Gulick by Jennifer Gulick, Senior Consulting Community Forester, Davey Resource Group, [email protected] This article originally appeared to broad acclaim in City Trees, the magazine of the Society of Municipal Arborists. It has comprehensive advice on funding for urban and community forestry programs of all [...]
St. Rose students and employees, TD Bank staff, and City of Albany employees planted trees around Albany’s Hoffman Park in October 2015. Photo by Lisa Thomson Savvy community forestry programs are always on the lookout for funding opportunities. One avenue is through two urban forestry [...]
(this post was updated May 11, 2021) Who would think that the massive grey clouds that settled over upstate New York in the winter and summer of 1998 could possibly have silver linings? The 10,000 TREES program was developed in 1999 to assist upstate New York communities within the [...]
In 2011, the Town of Red Hook Tree Commission successfully applied for a Round 10 NYS DEC Urban and Community Forestry Cost-Share grant that they used for a tree inventory and tree planting. Victoria Rolfe (standing) and Nancy Guski working on the Town of Red Hook’s [...]
Shantung maple (Acer truncatum) on Canisius College campus in Buffalo. Photo by Michelle Sutton QUICK START GRANTS! “The New York State Urban Forestry Council has taken another major step forward in its mission to support the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Urban and [...]