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Municipal Forestry Institute 2022 – Deadline Aug 7 to Apply – Diversity Scholarships Available
Apply now for MFI 2022! Diversity Scholarships Available Sept 25-30 2022 at Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio The Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) is an intensive, high-level week-long training that provides personal and professional development opportunities for key urban forestry decision makers. This unique leadership training was developed by [...]
The Nina Bassuk Retirement Interview
by Michelle Sutton The Council’s beloved Dr. Nina Bassuk (who prefers to go by “Nina”) will formally retire from Cornell at the end of this August (2022). When the world’s foremost authority on street trees and urban forestry retires after 42 years, there’s significant anxiety among those of us who [...]
July 2022 TAKING ROOT News
ReLeaf Conference; Rahma Food Forest in Syracuse; Tree City USA Reward Grants; more. Read this month's TAKING ROOT news here and subscribe here.
American Chestnut Restoration Updates
The New York State Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) produces a terrific newsletter, The Bur. Here's the Spring 2022 Edition. It includes information about SUNY-ESF's latest research breakthrough, the ‘DarWin’ new line of transgenic blight-tolerant American chestnut trees. 'DarWin' is the first new line since 2015, when the [...]
Rahma Food Forest: Permaculture in Practice on Syracuse’s South Side
Along with all community members, medical providers and staff from Rahma Free Health Clinic in Syracuse can enjoy picking fresh fruit like apples, Asian pears, medlar, paw paw fruit, and more. With Frank Cetera, written by Michelle Sutton Photos Courtesy The Alchemical Nursery The Rahma Food Forest on [...]
First-Ever Arbor Day Celebrations in Bombay, Oyster Bay, Penn Yan, and South Glens Falls
On May 2, 2022 the Town of Bombay (Franklin County; pop. ~ 1357) held its first-ever Arbor Day planting and celebration with 35 folks in attendance. The community planted red maples (Acer rubrum) and Japanese tree lilacs (Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk') and gave away tree seedlings, purchased from the Arbor [...]
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