Conference Resources

2022

• The Giving Tree Was Right: All the Ways we Benefit from Urban Trees Dr. Donald Rackhow, Cornell University
• Successful Volunteer Tree Planting Projects Betsy Henry, ReTree Schenectady, and Phil Sprague, Watertown Rotary
• Biophilic School Sites for Syracuse, NY Emmanuel Carter, SUNY College of Environment Science & Forestry, and Justin Kwiatkowski, Enviromental Design & Research, PC
• The Urban Tree Canopy in a Community-Academia-Media Collaboration Justin Murphy, Democrat and Chronicle
• Adopt-a-Park: Project C Kym Spaeth, National Grid
• Syracuse Urban Food Forest Project for Green Infrastructure Kat Korba, Garden Cycle
• Challenges and Opportunities to Increase Canopy in Syracuse, NY Cimone Jordan, City of Syracuse and Stephen Harris, Syracuse Parks Department
• Improving and Beautifying Saranac Lake since 1910 Randall Swanson, Village Improvement Society of Saranac Lake
• Response and Adaptation to the Ecological Impacts of EAB on the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory Normand Genier, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
• Black Ash Basketry: a Link to the Past Angello Johnson, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
• Enhancing Urban Forest Resiliency Robert Smith, and Megan Pistolese-Shaw, SELEO PRISM

• • Urban Forest Sustainability Initiative • UFSI Brochure • UFSI Guide
  • Pledge to Protect
  • Adopt a Tree Pilot Program • (Watertown’s Tree Arboretum Story-map)
• The Enjoyment of Scenery: The Origins and History of the “Utica Parks and Parkway Historic District” L.D. Terry Hawkridge, Central New York Conservancy

2018

• Plan-It Geo: Tree Plotter Inventory Management Software and Best Practices Chris Peiffer, Director of Urban Forestry Consulting
• New York Tree Law Laura Ayers, Esq.
• Legal Liability for Trees Laura Ayers, Esq.
• Right Tree, Right Place Jim Maloney, National Grid
• Underutilized Trees and Large Shrubs for the Landscape Tom Draves, Certified Arborist, Draves Tree Service
• Biological Control of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges tsugae, in the Eastern United States Mark Whitmore, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
• Oak Wilt Jerry Carlson, Research Scientist, NYS DEC