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Steve Harris: Urban Tree Champion
There’s a lot to know about Steve Harris. Steve is the outgoing President of New York State Urban Forestry Council. He has acted as Syracuse City Forester for twenty years. He’s a great guy, and an impassioned advocate for urban trees. Something less well known [...]
The Urban Heat Island and Extreme Heat: Eight Guidelines for Trees in the Urban Landscape
Guest Contributor: George Profous, Senior Forester, Division of Lands & Forests, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. What was once dubbed the Urban Heat Island (UHI), is now ominously termed Extreme Heat. But whatever the terminology, trees can help to reduce this warming. The increase in urban temperatures [...]
Equity and Climate Justice Roundtable on Cap-and-Invest Program Live-Streamed and Recorded
NYSDEC and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has announced an Equity and Climate Justice stakeholder roundtable on the development of the State's Cap-and-Invest Program to reduce the emissions driving climate change. The Cap-and-Invest Program was recommended in the Climate Action Council's Scoping Plan and proposed in Governor Kathy Hochul's [...]
MFI 2024 Applications for February 25-March 1, 2024 Being Accepted
The Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) is a high-level training opportunity that guides professionals in the leadership and managerial aspects of urban forestry. This week-long intensive educational program delivers a challenging, yet rewarding, opportunity to learn how to grow more successful community tree programs. Attendees will master leadership and management tools of program administration, [...]
Trees, Please!
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Brooklynium’/Photo: Neil White. “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone.” -Herman Hesse
Under the Butternut Tree
Guest Contributor: Alec Phoenix, Butternut Tree Enthusiast Tucked away between a red oak and a black cherry on a sloping five-acre tract in Arcadia, New York, the lone butternut had been there the whole time but I had somehow missed it. I had mowed under the tree a couple [...]
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