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Project Learning Tree Educator Training! August 16, 2024, 9:00am – 1:00pm
Project Learning Tree is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers, educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12. It uses the forest as a window to create awareness and knowledge of the natural world and address environmental issues. PLT helps students acquire [...]
$22.5 Million Available for Climate Smart Communities Projects
Grant funding is now available for municipalities across the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced $22.5 million is now available for the Climate Smart Communities Grant Program. Eligible projects can include reducing flood risk and emissions from food waste, relocating or retrofitting [...]
Registration Now Open! Annual ReLeaf Conference – July 24-26 in Albany, NY
The most “tree-tacular” conference in New York is about two months away! Visit the ReLeaf Conference page to register and view the agenda for the ReLeaf Conference and book your hotel room now in the block. This year’s conference features three tracts: equity and engagement, research and technology, and planning and [...]
An Arbor Day Space Tree at Bronx Community College
Bronx Community College (BCC) was selected as one of fifty sites nationwide to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: an American sycamore seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission in late 2022. [...]
Trees, Please!
Washington Hawthorn from Arbor Day Seedling, Food Source for Cedar Waxwings/Photo Jim DeLellis “Is the tree as it rises delighted with its many branches, each one like a poem?” — Mary Oliver
In the Latest Issue of City Trees
In the May-June edition of City Trees Magazine: Fresh for Everyone: A Look Back at the 2024 Municipal Forestry Institute (and an Interest Form for 2025!) Johan Östberg and Gustav Nässlander on their Arborist Exchange adventure from Sweden to Washington DC, Baltimore, and NYC USFS and Partners on Why Stewardship Matters: Reflections [...]
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