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Fifth Grader Maheen Naqvi Creates “Un-Fir-Gettable” Arbor Day Poster
Maheen Naqvi and family at last March's DEC-hosted awards ceremony. The DEC's Arbor Day celebration recognized the artwork of DEC’s children’s poster contest winner, Maheen Naqvi, 5th Grader from Dutch Lane Elementary School, Hicksville, Nassau County. The theme of this year’s children’s artwork was "New York’s Un-Fir-Gettable Forests." [...]
TreesCount! 2015: NYC’s Third Street-Tree Census
At TreesCount! 2015 orientation events, NYC Parks staff and their partners met with volunteer citizen scientists to talk about how the ongoing census helps the City, how citizen scientists can participate in the data collection, and how the census methodology works in the field. by Charles Cochran, Street [...]
2016 Tree City/Campus/Line USA Awards Ceremony
NYSUFC Founder Nancy Wolf received an Urban Forestry Award in honor of her many contributions to our field. Current NYS Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator Mary Kramarchyk (left) was joined by two former Program Coordinators–Peter Innes and Peter Frank (to Nancy’s left)–who turned out to support their colleague [...]
Funding Your Urban Forest Program: A Guide for City Foresters and their Allies
Author Jenny Gulick by Jennifer Gulick, Senior Consulting Community Forester, Davey Resource Group, [email protected] This article originally appeared to broad acclaim in City Trees, the magazine of the Society of Municipal Arborists. It has comprehensive advice on funding for urban and community forestry programs of all sizes–from the seasoned [...]
2016 NYS ReLeaf Conference Preview!
***Save the Dates for the 24th Annual ReLeaf Conference!*** July 14-16, 2016 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York Preliminary Program for 2016 ReLeaf Saratoga Springs: Lantern Lead Tour at Skidmore Campus Forest Health Update City Woods A Grove of Grants: UCF Community Grants and Arbor Day Grants DEC [...]
WNY CommuniTREE Stewards, Part 2: Using Social Media to Connect Participants
By Gregory Badger, CommuniTREE Stewards Volunteer I grew up hiking the woods of Honeoye in Western NY and learning about trees from my father and when I moved to Philadelphia after college, I began volunteering for some of their TreePhilly programs. Yard tree giveaways, street tree plantings, pruning days, and [...]
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