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Getting to Know the Multifaceted Rachel Holmes
NYSUFC Board Member Rachel Holmes is the coordinator of The Nature Conservancy’s urban forestry program called Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities. She is also a Flamenco dancer and a wildland firefighter (read on!). Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? Rachel Holmes: I [...]
Get to Know Him! Art Traver Edition
Council Board Member Art Traver. Photo by Paul Maurer Landscape architect and longtime Council Board Member Art Traver works for Wendel Companies out of their Buffalo office. Were there childhood influences foreshadowing your career? Art Traver: I think I first noticed the “environment” when I was [...]
Council Board Member & New MFI Grad Mike DeMarco
Council Board Member Mike DeMarco attended the 2017 Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) on scholarship from the Council and NYSDEC. MFI is an immersive, weeklong leadership training for urban forestry professionals. Here, we learn about DeMarco’s takeaways from MFI, his current position, and his work and educational background. DeMarco says, “I [...]
New Urban Forest Carbon Registry Will Create Revenue for City Trees
Story and images by Mark McPherson, Executive Director of the Urban Forest Carbon Registry The urban forests of the U.S. are long overdue to earn certified carbon credits. Carbon buyers purchased $700 million in carbon credits in the U.S. over the last decade ($4.5 billion worldwide). Yet not a single [...]
Getting to Know Brenda Cagle
Brenda’s at center, wearing sunglasses, with other members of the proud Red Hook Village Green Committee. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in conservation, trees, and urban forestry? Brenda Cagle: Growing up in West Virginia in the Ohio Valley surrounded by those [...]
Another Successful Save the Rain Tree Planting Event
Volunteers gathering for the fall, 2016 Save the Rain tree planting event. Photos Courtesy Save the Rain Save the Rain is Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s comprehensive program to improve the environment and clean Onondaga Lake by reducing the stormwater runoff that enters the sewer system. There is [...]
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