New NYSUFC Board Member Joseph Charap is the Director of Horticulture and Curator for Green-Wood in Brooklyn. He’s also a new dad—his son Benjamin was born on September 3rd. Charap and his Green-Wood colleagues are transforming the historic landscape of this cemetery into an urban arboretum/public garden [...]
NYC's Natural Areas Conservancy welcomed nine summer field interns from the City University of New York (CUNY). Over the course of eight weeks, the CUNY teams are studying NYC’s ecological health in 12 parks in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Led by Conservancy ecologists, the students are collecting data on [...]
https://youtu.be/iDEPH7uBxlA?list=PLHPXm2Es8aQC-A4BA87YhFLPvxKK76qpm In their recent paper in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, “Long-Term Remediation of Compacted Urban Soils by Physical Fracturing and Incorporation of Compost,” study authors Miles Sax, Nina Bassuk, Harold van Es, and Don Rakow published their findings after twelve years of applied research. The technique, [...]
Ed and Betsy Gilman, married 37 years, overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge on a visit to NYC. Dr. Ed Gilman is a popular presenter among NY arborists and members of our state’s U&CF community, giving talks based on his decades of applied research at the University [...]
Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute Director Nina Bassuk and Dept of Horticulture Post-doctoral Associate Fred Cowett recently published a paper called "Street Tree Diversity in Three Northeastern U.S. States" in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry, the scientific journal of the International Society of Arboriculture. What follows is the abstract, [...]
Our Council's blog was viewed more than 19,500 times in 2016! Here are the year's seven most-viewed posts. Blight-resistant chestnut seedlings. Photo by Allen Nichols Over a thousand people read Participate in the Reintroduction of the American Chestnut … by Simply Planting a Few Nuts. "Now [...]
This site is a good candidate for Soil Profile Rebuilding (SPR) because soil is compacted and has an impermeable layer that can likely be broken up by the backhoe subsoiling process. Note limestone gravel mixed in soil indicates pH will be high, which will not be [...]
Lori Brockelbank (second from left) with fellow NYS riders. Photo by R. Jeanette Martin October 9-15, 2016, cyclists will experience a week of unforgettable scenery, cycling and camaraderie as the Tour des Trees rolls through the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, starting and [...]
By Allen Nichols, President of The American Chestnut Foundation, New York Chapter Above: Allen Nichols doing a chestnut planting demonstration with home schoolers in Plattsburgh, NY. I became aware of the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) when my father pointed out the remains of dead trees to me when [...]
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 [...]