DEC U&CF Intern and Council Board Member Jennifer Kotary (left) served on the planning committee for the conference and she and Filomena Riganti, senior project manager for the New York Restoration Project, registered and welcomed attendees. Right this way! The conference at Skidmore in [...]
From NYSUFC President David Moore: The Council’s 2015 Annual Report has been finalized and is ready for your review and distribution! Our annual report serves many functions including: Defining the Council’s mission and goals; Illustrating how those mission and goals are pursued; Measuring progress and quantifying accomplishments; [...]
Karen Emmerich Environmental consultant Karen Emmerich serves on the NYSUFC Board, on the Region 3 ReLeaf Committee, and as Tree Commission Chair for the Town of Warwick. Last February, the Council provided a partial scholarship for Karen to attend the Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI), a [...]
CCE-Nassau County Horticulture Assistant K.C. Alvey (left) helped with the distribution of free trees to PSEG customers and with giving them planting advice. On April 30, 2016, PSEG Long Island, in partnership with New York State Urban Forestry Council and the Arbor Day Foundation, provided [...]
***Save the Dates for the 24th Annual ReLeaf Conference!*** July 14-16, 2016 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York Preliminary Program for 2016 ReLeaf Saratoga Springs: Lantern Lead Tour at Skidmore Campus Forest Health Update City Woods A Grove of Grants: UCF Community Grants and Arbor [...]
Our Council blog was viewed more than 14,000 times in 2015! Here are the top five posts: Sumana Serchan: Get to Know Her! Sumana Serchan is an urban forester with NYC Parks and Recreation. Sumana has a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the Yale School of [...]
Consulting Forester Jeff Kehoe NYSUFC Board Member Jeff Kehoe is an ISA Certified Arborist and consulting forester based out of Schenectady, NY. He has a lifelong appreciation for trees, and advanced degrees in forest management and urban planning. Jeff participated in recent Urban Forest Strike [...]
Barb Neal (right) with UFST training teammate, NYSDEC Forester Garrett Koplun Urban Forest Strike Teams (UFSTs) are a means for city foresters, state foresters, commercial arborists, and others to quickly come to the aid of a region whose urban forest has been impacted by a natural [...]
Laura Grant NYS DEC Urban Forestry Program Manager Mary Kramarchyk says, “Summer 2015 was the first time our program hosted an intern. Having several projects in mind and not having enough time to do them myself, I set our new student guest on the quest of [...]
At the 2015 ReLeaf Conference at SUNY ESF, it was fitting that ESF grad David Moore should be elected our new president. You can learn more about David from his profile last year on the blog. Here is David's acceptance speech. Thank you for the opportunity to serve [...]