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1 08, 2016

Bronx River Alliance & Partners to Restore Bronx River Forest

By |2016-08-01T07:55:42-04:00August 1st, 2016|Categories: Forest Restoration, Innovative Projects and Programs, Nonprofits, NYC|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The beautiful 23-mile Bronx River. Photo Courtesy Natural Areas Conservancy This story comes to us from Bronx River Alliance Deputy Director Maggie Greenfield and Natural Areas Conservancy Communications and Public Outreach Manager Nicole Brownstein.  The Bronx River has seen its fair share of history. It [...]

21 06, 2016

NYC Arbor Day Project, with Youth Growing & Planting 234 Trees

By |2016-06-21T23:27:26-04:00June 21st, 2016|Categories: Arbor Day, Innovative Projects and Programs, NYC, Tree Planting|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

  Students from the High School of American Studies at Lehman College in the Bronx plant an evergreen on campus. The students are left to right: Magella Sheehan, Owen McFadzean, and Rajesh Persad. Photo by Anthony Thoman Due to spring holidays, schools in New York [...]

3 06, 2016

Flood Damage to Trees after Hurricane Sandy: Lessons and Surprises

By |2016-06-05T19:35:45-04:00June 3rd, 2016|Categories: History, NYC|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Section of Long Island following Hurricane Sandy photographed by U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Rob Simpson. Photo in the public domain. by Michelle Sutton The 2016 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season officially began June 1, with meteorologists offering varying opinions about how much activity [...]

26 04, 2016

TreesCount! 2015: NYC’s Third Street-Tree Census

By |2016-06-29T15:43:02-04:00April 26th, 2016|Categories: Community Science, Innovative Projects and Programs, NYC, Tree Inventory|Tags: , , |0 Comments

  At TreesCount! 2015 orientation events, NYC Parks staff and their partners met with volunteer citizen scientists to talk about how the ongoing census helps the City, how citizen scientists can participate in the data collection, and how the census methodology works in the field. [...]

20 01, 2016

Kristy King and NYC Forest Restoration: Dreaming Big for the City’s Natural Areas

By |2017-10-01T22:50:41-04:00January 20th, 2016|Categories: Forest Restoration, Member Profiles, NYC|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Kristy King on a trip to India. Kristy King is the Director of Forest Restoration for the Natural Resources Group of NYC Parks. Here we get to know Kristy and the work that her department does to bring degraded land back to life in the [...]

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