Natural Areas in the Urban Forest

5 02, 2024

Planting Trees in Riparian Areas: Some Questions and Answers

By |2024-02-05T12:35:31-05:00February 5th, 2024|Categories: Essays and Reflections, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest|Comments Off on Planting Trees in Riparian Areas: Some Questions and Answers

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 [...]

27 12, 2023

Stitching a Future: The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry

By |2023-12-23T15:23:47-05:00December 27th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections, History, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Stitching a Future: The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry

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. [...]

20 12, 2023

Students Join Harvard in Effort to Preserve Irvington Woods

By |2023-12-19T18:47:00-05:00December 20th, 2023|Categories: Forest Restoration, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Volunteers, Youth|Comments Off on Students Join Harvard in Effort to Preserve Irvington Woods

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 [...]

5 12, 2023

Reclaiming an Atlantic White Cedar Bog

By |2023-12-04T16:49:22-05:00December 5th, 2023|Categories: Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Urban Forest Ecology|Comments Off on Reclaiming an Atlantic White Cedar Bog

Contributing Writer: Ricker Magder, Community-based Environmental Writer, Nonprofit Consultant and Founding Executive Director of Groundwork Hudson Valley and Groundwork USA In the far northwest corner of New Jersey, along the Walkill River, stands a very special national wildlife refuge. Nestled in [...]

28 11, 2023

Oak Regeneration Project in Hillside Woods

By |2023-12-01T18:28:04-05:00November 28th, 2023|Categories: Forest Restoration, Innovative Projects and Programs, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest|Comments Off on Oak Regeneration Project in Hillside Woods

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. [...]

17 05, 2023

Meet Fiona Watt, NYSDEC Lands & Forests New Director and New York State Forester

By |2023-05-17T13:22:44-04:00May 17th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections, Forest Restoration, Innovative Projects and Programs, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, NY ReLeaf, NYSDEC, Organizational News, Urban Forest Ecology|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Meet Fiona Watt, NYSDEC Lands & Forests New Director and New York State Forester

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 [...]

2 05, 2023

Urban Forestry/Birds Podcasts Featured in May/June City Trees

By |2023-05-02T10:19:40-04:00May 2nd, 2023|Categories: City Trees Magazine, Essays and Reflections, History, Innovative Projects and Programs, Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Nonprofits, NYC, Society of Municipal Arborists, Urban Forest Ecology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Urban Forestry/Birds Podcasts Featured in May/June City Trees

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 [...]

22 06, 2020

NY ReLeaf Webinar: Ecological Assessment of New York City’s Natural Areas

By |2021-02-27T23:07:24-05:00June 22nd, 2020|Categories: Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, ReLeaf Workshops, Research, Webinars & Online Workshops|Tags: |0 Comments

Join NY ReLeaf for an urban forestry webinar on July 21st at 10 AM! The Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) exists to restore and conserve the green and blue spaces of New York City in order to enhance the lives of all New Yorkers. In this webinar, NAC [...]

2 06, 2020

Managing Forests in Cities

By |2021-02-27T23:07:25-05:00June 2nd, 2020|Categories: Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, USFS, Webinars & Online Workshops|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

The past few months have highlighted the importance of parks and nature in cities. Urban natural areas are critical as refugia, protecting biodiversity and mitigating the impacts of climate change all while contributing to the health and wellbeing of nearby residents. However, natural areas are threatened by [...]

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