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Urban Forestry in the News
"In a Queens Forest, Compiling a Picture of Urban Ecology," New York Times, December 2, 2014. Urban Forest as canary in the coalmine for environmental health; using high-tech sensors to monitor microclimate. Includes quotes from NYC Chief of Forestry, Horticulture and Natural Resources Bram Gunther. "Roundtable: Climate Change Impacts on [...]
SMA Announces 2015 Urban Tree of the Year
… and it’s one that’s close to our hearts, in the sense that the Tree of the Year (TOY) is none other than the one featured in bloom in our blog’s banner up top, yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea). What serendipity! Surrey, BC Urban Forester Emily Hamilton, who attended NY ReLeaf last [...]
Essential and Updated: The Cornell Woody Plants Database
Like me, you may have a dog-eared, well-worn copy of the Urban Horticulture Institute’s (UHI) Recommended Urban Trees: Site Assessment and Tree Selection for Stress Tolerance. Another fantastic resource for urban foresters and UF volunteers that has just been updated is the Cornell Woody Plants Database. Nina Bassuk says, “What [...]
Reflections from the SMA Conference in Charlotte
by Michelle Sutton, TAKING ROOT Editor Two posts ago, Mike Duran-Mitchell shared reflections from the 2014 Partners in Community Forestry Conference that took place Nov 5-6 in Charlotte, NC. Just prior to Partners were professional meetings and conferences like that of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA). I edit SMA’s [...]
Cost-Share Grant Stories: Village of Scottsville Forestry Board
Trees on Main Street in Scottsville NY that were planted in the mid-80s thanks to a citizen-driven planting initiative. Photo by Elizabeth Murray Elizabeth Murray is a former Village of Scottsville Trustee and a past chairperson of the Village’s Forestry Board, and now serves as the Forestry Board’s [...]
Mike Duran-Mitchell on the Charlotte PCF Conference
You can count on Mike Duran-Mitchell to live-tweet important events in urban forestry, like our own NY ReLeaf Conference at Hofstra on Long Island last July and the recent Partners in Community Forestry (PCF) Conference in Charlotte. Mike is the Director of Tree Giveaways for the New York Restoration Project. [...]
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