Town of DeWitt Naturalist, Sustainability Coordinator, and Certified Arborist Christine Manchester is pleased to share this post about her Town’s new Urban Forest Management Plan. In 2014, the Town of DeWitt received notification from the NYSDEC that our grant application to fund the creation of an urban [...]
Calling all Master Plans! Rochester City Forester and NYSUFC Executive Committee Member Brian Liberti shares the following intro from the most recent Rochester Urban Forest Master Plan. You can also see Ithaca’s Urban Forest Master Plan here. We’d like to collect as many UF Master Plans from [...]
In “Can Hungry Goats Restore Urban Forests?” writer Jessica Leigh Hester describes how officials are using a herd of goats in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to browse invasive plants that took hold after Hurricane Sandy blew down trees, leaving open earth exposed to sunlight. The herd is on [...]
Tour des Trees riders started out in Orlando and ended in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Flu-stricken Lori is among them! Photo by R. Jeanette Martin Last fall, our esteemed Council Treasurer Lori Brockelbank participated for her third year in a row in the STIHL Tour des Trees [...]
By Lewis M. Cutler, MS Forest Botany and Ecology, SUNY ESF, 1975 There’s now an urban forestry scholarship for students at SUNY ESF. I’ve created the Helen Sternberg Cutler Memorial Scholarship in urban forestry in my mother’s memory. Helen Sternberg Cutler The urban landscape needs [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwojMOCyTo My friend Jinghua Tu made a two-minute short film of MillionTreesNYC stewardship day in Van Cortland Park, in which she interviewed some volunteers and staff. The MillionTreesNYC campaign is now over 954,399 trees strong and as we get closer to reaching a million, our need is [...]
Forestry Awareness Day (FAD) 2015 is coming up on February 2 in Albany. Please join us! Participation/Registration is free for NYSUFC members. FAD is sponsored by The Council of Forest Resource Organizations (CFRO), of which our NYS Urban Forestry Council is a member. (Among the other 14 [...]
"In a Queens Forest, Compiling a Picture of Urban Ecology," New York Times, December 2, 2014. Urban Forest as canary in the coalmine for environmental health; using high-tech sensors to monitor microclimate. Includes quotes from NYC Chief of Forestry, Horticulture and Natural Resources Bram Gunther. "Roundtable: Climate [...]