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Taking Down the Beloved Balmville Tree
NYS DEC Urban Forestry Program Assistant Sally Kellogg provides perspective on the size of the Balmville tree trunk. Photo by Mary Kramarchyk On August 5, 2015 the people of Balmville in the Town of Newburgh in Orange County said goodbye to a storied old-growth eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) revered [...]
Albany Tree Planting & Urban Forestry Funding from TD Bank
St. Rose students and employees, TD Bank staff, and City of Albany employees planted trees around Albany’s Hoffman Park in October 2015. Photo by Lisa Thomson Savvy community forestry programs are always on the lookout for funding opportunities. One avenue is through two urban forestry related programs of [...]
New CommuniTREE Stewards Program Launches in Erie County
Sister Johnice of St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center in Buffalo joined the community around the Broadway Fillmore area to help plant trees. Here, a priest from St. Adalbert’s blesses the new plantings. Photo by Paul Maurer This is the first in a series of real-time reporting by [...]
ReTree the District is Taking Root in Buffalo’s University District
Hundreds of students from the University at Buffalo have participated in ReTree the District. For many, this is an opportunity to meet neighbors and learn more about the community surrounding campus. Photos by Darren Cotton by Darren Cotton, Board Vice President, University Heights Collaborative What started as a [...]
Saratoga Tree Nursery Kicks Off Annual Low-Cost Tree and Shrub Seedling Sale and School Seedling Program
Spruce seedlings in the Saratoga Tree Nursery Landowners Can Take Advantage of Low-Cost Native Plants; Available to Schools for Free More than 45 species of trees and shrubs from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Saratoga Tree Nursery are now available to public and private [...]
Nyack’s Tree Inventory Propels Nursery and Planting Program
Nyack’s Tree Inventory began in the Village’s Memorial Park Here, Nyack Tree Committee Chair Marcy Denker discusses the tree inventory recently completed in her Village. You can see the full tree inventory report here, and the key findings from the inventory can be seen after Marcy’s narrative. [...]
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