Navé Strauss has been director of street tree planting for NYC Parks since April 2016. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? Navé Strauss: I grew up in suburban Long Island with a father who is an [...]
Brenda’s at center, wearing sunglasses, with other members of the proud Red Hook Village Green Committee. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in conservation, trees, and urban forestry? Brenda Cagle: Growing up in West Virginia in the Ohio Valley [...]
Volunteers gathering for the fall, 2016 Save the Rain tree planting event. Photos Courtesy Save the Rain Save the Rain is Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s comprehensive program to improve the environment and clean Onondaga Lake by reducing the stormwater runoff that enters the sewer [...]
Pine trees are among the Saratoga Tree Nursery’s offerings. Photo by Larry Decker DEC’s Tree Nursery Offers Variety of Seedlings to Create Effective Windbreaks and Snow Fences More than 50 species of trees and shrubs from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) [...]
Photo by Pat Evens Schools Can Complete Conservation Planting for Free Schools across New York are eligible to receive free seedlings for spring planting through the DEC School Seedling Program, which provides 50 tree seedlings or a mixed packet of 30 wildlife shrubs to any [...]
2017 Arbor Day Grant Information Packet The NYS Urban Forestry Council is pleased to announce available funding for small communities to have an Arbor Day tree planting event and to establish a community based forestry program. This funding has been provided by the USDA Forest Service and [...]
Baldcypress grove in Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery. Photo by Michelle Sutton Round 13 of the NYSDEC Urban Forestry Grants Program was announced on December 22, 2016. NYSDEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced the availability of $2.3 million for Round 13. Applications are due by March 1, [...]
… with Trees for Tribs Coordinator Sarah Walsh Trees for Tribs, as in tributaries, is a Department of Environmental Conservation program replanting New York’s streams. The program began in 2007 in the Hudson River Estuary and has since expanded statewide, working with partners across the [...]
Planting the final tree on TREES ON LIBERTY celebration day, October 15th, 2016. Children planted with Dwight Gillins, assistant vice president of TD Bank, Market Street Poughkeepsie branch (right) and George Profous, DEC senior forester (left). Last spring, the City of Newburgh received a $20,000 [...]
DEC Forester Jeff Brockelbank taught Ellington families proper tree planting techniques. Former Town of Ellington Councilwoman Tamara Miles led the Town’s Recreation Committee efforts to secure an Arbor Day grant from the NYSUFC and to host a lively Arbor Day celebration on April 30, [...]