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Onondaga Tree Planting Includes ROW Sites in Dewitt
Volunteers powered 2017 fall bare root tree planting in municipalities across Onondaga County. Photos Courtesy CCE Onondaga County From Clare Carney, Natural Resource Educator for CCE Onondaga County: This year, as part of an Onondaga County Community Development Block Grant, CCE Onondaga worked with multiple municipalities to coordinate [...]
SMA 2018 Urban Tree of the Year is…
photo by Steve Cothrel The 2018 SMA Urban Tree of the Year is native to much of the Eastern United States and is cold hardy to Zone 4 and heat hardy to Zone 8b or 9. You may associate it with forests, but not so much with urban [...]
Up With Trees! SMA Tulsa Conference Highlights
Up with Trees headquarters in Tulsa. Photo: upwithtrees.org Recently, Council members such as Past President Andy Hillman, Secretary Steve Harris, Board Member James Kaechele, and myself (Blog Editor Michelle Sutton) attended the Annual Conference of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA). It was held November 13-14, 2017 in [...]
Amynthas Worms Addendum
Cornell Cooperative Extension just came out with a helpful bulletin about Amynthas worms. It includes images showing how to tell apart invasive European worms and the more damaging Amynthas worms, and advice on how to prevent their spread. Limited research on potential predators to hope control this pest shows that Eastern red centipedes [...]
Green Horizons: NYC Middle School Careers Event in its 22nd Year
NYSDEC Senior Forester Greg Owens facilitated native tree planting and other activities in the All About Trees workshop. Photo by Diana Pedi The 22nd New York City Green Horizons middle school careers event was held October 19, 2017 in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. It attracted almost [...]
How NYC ReLeaf Gets it Done: Effective Advocacy for the Federal UCF Budget
Numbers represent the respective US Congressional Districts. Twelve federal congressmen and women cover the five boroughs of NYC. Thank you to NYC ReLeaf Planning Committee Member Nancy Wolf and NYC ReLeaf Committee Co-chair and NYSUFC Board Member Andrew Newman for sharing this account with us. Along with ReLeaf groups and [...]
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