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Writing for the Trees: What’s Your Favorite Tree?
In this installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author, blogger and Taking Root editor Jean Zimmerman reflects upon the diversity of specimens that might earn the status of a favorite. What's your favorite tree? It’s a simple question. One I get asked a [...]
Trees, Please!
Yellow Birch-A Real Live ENT!/Photo Steve Harris “Land really is the best art.” — Andy Warhol
Calling All Mentors!
Would you like to make a difference in helping kids to grow up appreciating, valuing, and knowing something about trees? NYSUFC is currently enrolling mentors for a pilot grant program called the TREE TEAM, which has been initiated to help winning New York State schools move toward recognition as [...]
Stitching a Future: The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry
Contributing writer: Matthew López-Jensen, Bronx-based Interdisciplinary Environmental Artist. All photos courtesy Matthew López-Jensen. The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry is a fifteen-foot-long community embroidered work of art — and it is also a map of the neighborhoods and commercial buildings in the Northwest Bronx, built on former marshland. The work was [...]
DEC Announces 2024 Catskills Fire Tower Challenge: Annual Hiking Challenge
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has announced the 2024 Catskills Fire Tower Challenge to highlight the world-class tourism destinations and recreational opportunities in the Catskill Park. Launched in 2019, the Challenge draws participants from every region of New York, as well as 11 other states and countries, [...]
Trees, Please!
Fall Near Hemlock Lake/Photo Noreen Riordan, birdsong landscape design “You inherit the autumns, folded like festive clothing in the memories of poets; and all the winters, like abandoned fields, bequeath you their quietness.” — Rainier Maria Rilke
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