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Recommended Reading: An African American Tree Activist Lived in Brooklyn
Hattie Carthan in 1978; photo from the New York Public Library. An African American Tree Activist Lived in Brooklyn Washington Square Park Eco Projects Director Georgia Silvera Seamans posted this story on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden blog about Hattie Carthan (1900-1984). Silvera Seamans writes, "[Carthan] is credited with starting [...]
Recap of the NYSDEC 2023 Urban Forestry Awards Celebration at Vassar College
Celebrating the Village of Rhinebeck's 13 years as a Tree City USA! From left to right: NYSDEC Urban Forestry Partnerships Coordinator Christina McLaughlin; Joyce Meisinger and Connie Lown from the Village of Rhinebeck Tree Commission; and NYSDEC Urban and Community Forestry Coordinator Gloria Van Duyne. Reporting and Photos [...]
March April 2023 Edition of City Trees Features Rural Urban Forestry, SMA Conference in Seattle pics, New Horizon Elm, and New Role for Community Arboreta
City Trees is the magazine of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) and is freely available to everyone. Here’s how you can access City Trees, an international, bimonthly online magazine about all things urban forestry: The March/April 2023 City Trees is here From the Jan/Feb 2023 link (or any other issue link) you can [...]
Schenectady’s Dynamic Tree Planting Collaboration: 2022 Update
The excellent e-flyer that went out to Schenectady community members in advance of the summer 2022 tree planting. See also the earlier blog post: Schenectady Plants 50 Trees with New Collaborative Initiative In the summer of 2021, ReTree Schenectady, the City of Schenectady, Schenectady County, Community Fathers, and the [...]
Starting 2/28, online Certified Arborist training hosted by CCE Putnam and Dutchess Counties
See the full brochure here
Writing for the Trees: How Arborists Can Communicate With the World and Have Fun Doing It
Writing for the Trees In this first installment of a somewhat regular feature, NYSUFC Board Member, author and blogger Jean Zimmerman shares ideas about How Arborists Can Communicate With the World and Have Fun Doing it Michelle Sutton wrote a great post recently about getting an article published as an [...]
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