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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 [...]

By |March 21st, 2023|Categories: History, NYC|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Recommended Reading: An African American Tree Activist Lived in Brooklyn

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 [...]

By |March 17th, 2023|Categories: Awards, NYSDEC, Tree Campus Higher Education, Tree City USA, Tree Line USA|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Recap of the NYSDEC 2023 Urban Forestry Awards Celebration at Vassar College

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 [...]

By |March 1st, 2023|Categories: City Trees Magazine, Society of Municipal Arborists, Uncategorized, Underutilized Urban Trees|Tags: , , |Comments Off on 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

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 [...]

By |February 28th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Justice, Funding, Grants, Innovative Projects and Programs, Nonprofits, Training, Tree Planting, Youth|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on Schenectady’s Dynamic Tree Planting Collaboration: 2022 Update

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 [...]

By |February 20th, 2023|Categories: Essays and Reflections|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Writing for the Trees: How Arborists Can Communicate With the World and Have Fun Doing It
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