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Tim Chick: Get to Know Him!
On Arbor Day in Lake Placid, Tim Chick teaches Girl Scouts and other groups about how to plant tree seedlings. Tim is semi-retired and a NYSUFC Board member. He works part-time as an adjunct forestry professor at Paul Smith’s College and consulting forester and is co-chair of the [...]
Town of DeWitt Rolls Out Urban Forest Management Plan
Town of DeWitt Naturalist, Sustainability Coordinator, and Certified Arborist Christine Manchester is pleased to share this post about her Town’s new Urban Forest Management Plan. In 2014, the Town of DeWitt received notification from the NYSDEC that our grant application to fund the creation of an urban forest management plan [...]
NYSUFC VP Brian Skinner on Retirement, with a Twist
So … to the surprise of many (including myself), I really did finally retire from National Grid at the end of October. After 45 years of enjoying the care of trees, service to innumerable individuals, mutual and professional associations with many industry friends, and decades of sharing knowledge and expertise [...]
Round 13 Cost-Share Grants! Application Period,Webinar,Case Studies
Baldcypress grove in Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery. Photo by Michelle Sutton Round 13 of the NYSDEC Urban Forestry Grants Program was announced on December 22, 2016. NYSDEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced the availability of $2.3 million for Round 13. Applications are due by March 1, 2017. These are [...]
Top Seven Blog Posts of 2016
Our Council's blog was viewed more than 19,500 times in 2016! Here are the year's seven most-viewed posts. Blight-resistant chestnut seedlings. Photo by Allen Nichols Over a thousand people read Participate in the Reintroduction of the American Chestnut … by Simply Planting a Few Nuts. "Now comes the part [...]
SMA Announces 2017 Urban Tree of the Year
Photo (c) 2002 Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/13676.htm The 2017 Society of Municipal Arborists Urban Tree of the Year is native to much of the Eastern United States. Hikers from New York to Tennessee who ascend to dry ridges will often see the deeply furrowed, blocky barked trunks of [...]
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