Contributing Writer: Ricker Magder, Community-based Environmental Writer, Nonprofit Consultant and Founding Executive Director of Groundwork Hudson Valley and Groundwork USA In the far northwest corner of New Jersey, along the Walkill River, stands a very special national wildlife refuge. Nestled in [...]
Guest Contributor: George Profous, Senior Forester, Division of Lands & Forests, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. What was once dubbed the Urban Heat Island (UHI), is now ominously termed Extreme Heat. But whatever the terminology, trees can help to reduce this warming. The increase [...]
Guest Contributor: Alec Phoenix, Butternut Tree Enthusiast Tucked away between a red oak and a black cherry on a sloping five-acre tract in Arcadia, New York, the lone butternut had been there the whole time but I had somehow missed it. I had mowed under the [...]
A symposium on the critical topic of extreme urban heat organized by ReLeaf Region 3 Hudson Valley on Friday, June 9 in Yonkers proved a rousing success. Groundwork Hudson Valley cosponsored the event, hosted by the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak [...]
Look Up! Look Down! Look all around these NYC neighborhood parks and find the birds and trees highlighted in this Urban Bird Explorers Guide. This beautiful brochure with illustrations of birds and trees was developed in partnership with Washington Square Park Eco Projects, Natural Areas Conservancy, Van [...]
Fiona Watt joined DEC on February 21, 2023, after more than 25 years at NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. Photo Courtesy NYSDEC We at the NYSUFC are pleased to reprint this piece, with permission, from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Lands [...]
Michael Warren Thomas visiting the 2023 Dutch Connection at the Eastman Museum in Rochester. Horticulturist Michael Warren Thomas is beloved in the Finger Lakes of New York and beyond for his award-winning, long-running radio shows and podcasts about this glorious region, its gardens and agriculture, [...]
All Ears: Four Noteworthy Podcasts from SMA Members and Friends This feature is an in-depth look at the Your Bird Story, This Old Tree, Plant a Trillion Trees, and The Municipal Arborist podcasts in the May/June City Trees, the magazine produced by the Society of Municipal Arborists [...]
In the September/October 2022 issue of City Trees, the magazine produced by the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), Washington Square Park Eco Projects Director Georgia Silvera Seamans published a superb story, "Tulip Tree among the Oaks: Notes on My Favorite Forest Tree." And in the May/June 2022 [...]
Along with all community members, medical providers and staff from Rahma Free Health Clinic in Syracuse can enjoy picking fresh fruit like apples, Asian pears, medlar, paw paw fruit, and more. With Frank Cetera, written by Michelle Sutton Photos Courtesy The Alchemical Nursery The Rahma [...]