Guest Contributor: Emily Nobel Maxwell, Founder and Principal, Nobel Cause Consulting, Senior Advisor, Urban Forestry, City Parks Foundation Part One of a two-part post. Article adapted courtesy of Vital City. In Fall 2023, two important laws related to the urban forest went into [...]
Tree Talk attended the 31st Annual New York ReLeaf Conference (July 24-26, 2024) and asked attendees: What draws you to this ReLeaf Conference? Here are some of their responses. Abraham Watkins: “I would like to explore how other people plant trees [...]
Guest Contributor: Rebecca Hargrave, Associate Professor at SUNY Morrisville and Ph.D. candidate, UMass Amherst Part 4 of a Series Focusing on Urban Forest Management in New York State This article is the fourth in a series presenting the results of a 2021 [...]
Guest Contributor: Rebecca Hargrave, Associate Professor at SUNY Morrisville and Ph.D. candidate, UMass Amherst Part 3 of a Series Focusing on Urban Forest Management in New York State In 2021, researchers at UMass Amherst in conjunction with the NYSDEC Urban and [...]
This webinar, produced by Alliance for Community Trees, is scheduled to take place Wednesday, August 21 from 1-2:00pm (Central Time). How do you ensure your vital mission gets the attention it deserves? This educational webinar is dedicated to helping nonprofits shine in the local and national [...]
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the recipients of the Urban and Community Forestry Grants funded by the U.S. Forest Service through the historic Inflation Reduction Act. Grants totaling more than $7.1 million will support 23 urban forestry projects, particularly in disadvantaged communities most burdened by environmental [...]
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County will offer a free webinar Thursday, Sep 5, 2024 at 7:00pm for consumers and the commercial industry. The spotted lanternfly arrived in New York City in 2020 and is now established around the State. This invasive planthopper can become [...]
New York State DEC Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced nearly $2 million awarded to SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to help identify, model and map urban heat islands, to assess extreme heat impacts and responses and to support climate actions to address urban [...]
Guest Contributor: Rebecca Hargrave, Associate Professor at SUNY Morrisville and a Ph.D. candidate, UMass Amherst Part Two of a Series Focusing on Urban Forest Management in New York State In 2021, researchers at UMass Amherst in conjunction with the NYSDEC Urban [...]
The Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) is a recipient of grant funding from the USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program under the Inflation Reduction Act (Funding Opportunity #: USDA-FS-2023-UCF-IRA-01). The Foundation will serve as a national pass-through partner of the Forest Service, providing funding [...]