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“Fall Planting and a Deeper Look at ‘Fall Transplanting Hazards'” is Blog’s Most-Viewed Post

Dr. Nina Bassuk, at left, with students of her Creating the Urban Eden class in fall of 2019. Nina contributes the seminal "Five Branches of Transplanting Success" section of the "Fall Planting and A Deeper Look at 'Fall Hazards'" post. Fall planting season is underway, and many NY [...]

Artist, Arborist, and Horticulturist Noreen Riordan

Noreen at the Friday picnic of the 2018 NY ReLeaf Conference in Rochester. Photo by Michelle Sutton Noreen Riordan attended the Rochester ReLeaf Conference in 2018. She lives in Henrietta and serves a greater Rochester territory as an Arborist Representative for Bartlett Tree Experts. Her territory includes Greece, [...]

Building & Maintaining Your Healthy Community Forest Webinar

This webinar is hosted by Southern Adirondack ReLeaf and is free and open to all. 10/28 9 AM Southern Adirondack ReLeaf – Building and maintaining your healthy community forest Registration Link: https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecb9b4b40ae24efe4267132ebeea8cbce Join NY ReLeaf for a webinar on building and maintaining your healthy community forest! Starting a new program or maintaining [...]

Watertown’s Black River Trail Expansion Capped by Fall Tree Planting

Thank you to Council Board Member and City of Watertown Planner Mike DeMarco for sharing this background and pics.   The third and final segment of the Black River Trail was completed in a joint effort between NYS Parks, City of Watertown, and NYS DOT. This project, 15 years in the [...]

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Public Comment Sought on American Chestnut Restoration Project

American chestnut project researcher Linda McGuigan checks on American chestnut seedlings. esf.edu After decades of innovative research, researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) are working with regulatory agencies to receive permission to distribute the blight-tolerant American chestnut trees developed at ESF to the [...]

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