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Students Join Harvard in Effort to Preserve Irvington Woods
Contributing Writer: Marc Ferris, author of Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem (Johns Hopkins University Press); contributor, River Journal, Highlands Current, Chronogram and Albany Times Union. Reprinted from River Journal. Irvington Woods Park is a special place. Beyond being the largest nature preserve [...]
Alliance for Community Trees Environmental Justice Training
ACT’s first environmental justice training of 2024 will be held on Tuesday, January 16 from 10:30am to 12:00pm Central Time. Next month's session is titled Metrics of Success for Increasing Career Pathways in Urban Forestry and will be facilitated by Dr. Christine Carmichael of Fair Forests Consulting. In this 1.5 hour training, Alliance for [...]
Green-Wood Environmental Research Fellowship Award 2024 Applications Now Open
The Green-Wood Research Fellowship Award in Urban Environmental Science provides support for emerging investigators to conduct original research that utilizes the landscape and collections of The Green-Wood Cemetery and Historic Fund to advance the study of urban ecology and/or climate resilience. The grant award is $5,000. Proposals are due on [...]
Planting Specs: “Good” to “Great”
Contributing Writer: Rebecca Johnson, Certified Arborist at Arborholic, LLC All photos courtesy Rebecca Johnson We all recognize that trees are a big part of the solution to global climate change. Organizations around the globe are launching ambitious and aggressive tree planting campaigns. To meet these goals, they [...]
Changes in the Pesticide Reporting Law: DEC Releases New Videos
Environmental Conservation Law Article 33, Title 12 is also known as the Pesticide Reporting Law (PRL). Enacted in 1996, the PRL requires Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicators, Certified Commercial Pesticide Technicians, Aquatic Anti-Fouling Paint Applicators and Commercial Permittees (including Importers, Manufacturers, and Compounders) to submit annual reports detailing pesticide activities [...]
Reclaiming an Atlantic White Cedar Bog
Contributing Writer: Ricker Magder, Community-based Environmental Writer, Nonprofit Consultant and Founding Executive Director of Groundwork Hudson Valley and Groundwork USA In the far northwest corner of New Jersey, along the Walkill River, stands a very special national wildlife refuge. Nestled in a low-lying area, [...]
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