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Winning 2018 Fifth Grade NY Arbor Day Poster Contest Artist
Congratulations to 5th grader Sydney Starkey from Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, who won the 5th Grade 2018 NY Arbor Day poster contest! This year’s theme was “Trees for Bees.” She is seen here with her parents, Catherine and David, at the DEC Urban Forestry Awards ceremony in [...]
DEC ANNOUNCES $350,000 HUDSON RIVER IN ESTUARY GRANTS
Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park Estuary. Photo by Robert Rodriguez, Jr. for scenichudson.org Healthy urban forests protect the health of watersheds by slowing down stormwater runoff and sediment transport. Note that one category of the projects funding by these Hudson River Estuary grants is: Using green infrastructure practices [...]
Chestnut Tree Restoration: Help by Planting Nuts for “Mother Trees”
Open-grown (full sun) American chestnut trees can flower in just three years. Photo by Allen Nichols “We need people all over NY and in other states to plant pure wild American chestnuts so they have ‘mother trees’ to cross with our blight-resistant tree, when it is approved for [...]
Town of Plattsburgh Arbor Day 2018
Thank you to Town of Plattsburgh Planning Technician Malana Tamer for providing this report. The Town of Plattsburgh (population app 12,000) is located in Clinton County in the northeastern part of New York State, approximately 65 miles south of Montreal, Canada and on the western shore of Lake Champlain. [...]
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