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Longtime Council Stalwart Marty Mullarkey, in His Own Words
Marty Mullarkey: I grew up in the Bronx in an apartment house. I remember looking out the window across the street to a vacant lot where the only tree in the vicinity grew. Later, when I was 11 or 12, my friends and I found a lot further away with [...]
Buffalo’s Cost-Share Grant Story and Advice
Measuring Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) during the in-house, grant-funded inventory. In 2011, the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) successfully applied for a Round 10 Urban and Community Forestry Cost-Share Grant from NYS DEC. Among other things, the funds went toward updates to the City of Buffalo’s tree inventory, [...]
Ten Ways to Make Arbor Day a True Community Event
Thoughts turn to Arbor Day as the NYSUFC recently awarded Quick Start Grants of up to $1000 each to 12 New York communities or non-profits that want to work in partnership with municipalities to celebrate Arbor Day 2015 and form a shade tree committee. The recipients of the grants are [...]
Getting to Know Terry Hawkridge
Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? Terry Hawkridge: I was always very comfortable in the forests of New Hampshire where I spent time growing up. I went to a forestry camp for a month where we opened up a ten-year-old stand [...]
A New Method for Streamlining Tree Selection in New York City
Read on for the full story behind this biotopes flow chart (and a bigger version of the chart). We can count on our NYC urban forestry colleagues to be constantly innovating. This article by NYC Urban Forester and NYSUFC Executive Committee Member David Moore first appeared in City [...]
Buffalo City Forester Ross Hassinger: Get to Know Him!
Ross and Mandy Hassinger with twin daughters Emily and Josephine at the Eternal Flame Falls in Chestnut Ridge Park, Orchard Park, NY, summer of 2014. Were there childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in urban forestry? Ross Hassinger: I knew at an early age that I had a [...]
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