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Save the Rain’s Fall 2017 Tree Planting in Syracuse
Volunteers planting in the Brighton Neighborhood of Syracuse. Photos Courtesy Save the Rain From Clare Evelyn Carney, CCE Onondaga Urban Forestry Educator: The Save the Rain (STR) Tree Planting Program had a wonderful year of planting street trees throughout the City of Syracuse. In 2017, over 1,000 trees were [...]
A Happy Tale from the Community Benefit Tree Program of the ALB Reforestation Project
Photo by Pete Cheswick by Addie Cappello, Horticulture Assistant, CCE Nassau County As part of the ongoing Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) Reforestation Grant, we ALB project staff (Nick Bates, Rob Calamia, and Addie Cappello) entered the fall 2107 planting season excited to be out of the office and [...]
Memorial Park as Urban Arboretum: White Haven in Pittsford
The oldest and largest tree at White Haven, a majestic red oak (Quercus rubra). The tree collections of cemeteries and memorial parks make a significant contribution to urban forests. Recently we learned more about the Certified Level 2 urban arboretum that is Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn as part of the [...]
Urban Forest Ecology: Earthworms Implicated in Sugar Maple Decline
Dr. Tara Bal examining earthworm activity in leaf litter. Whoa. Worms can cause a lot of problems, as we've been exploring on the blog with regard to the organic matter over-consumer, Asian jumping worm. A Michigan Tech study entitled "Evidence of damage from exotic invasive earthworm activity was highly [...]
Drones in the Urban Forest, Part 2: The Potential
Drone making visual tree inspection. Photo by Dan Staley In Remote Sensing and Assessment of Urban Forests with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of City Trees, author and UAVs (drones) expert Dan Staley defines terms and lays out the potential uses of this rapidly evolving technology for urban [...]
Drones in the Urban Forest, Part 1: NYSDEC’s Drone Program Takes Off
NYSDEC is now using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones) for a variety of monitoring purposes around the State. This terrific video, followed by the official NYSDEC press release, shows you the projects undertaken thus far. The ones that will perhaps interest the NYS urban forestry community most [...]
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