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Chestnut Chats from The American Chestnut Foundation
From The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) Chestnut Chat: American Chestnut Restoration and Reintroduction Plantings Friday, August 7 at 11:30AM (EDT) [Watch videos from the full archives of Chestnut Chats, from a Virtual Pollination Workshop to Using Drones to Benefit Chestnut Restoration to a Conversation with Chuck Leavell, Keyboardist and Chestnut [...]
Urban Forestry & COVID Forums
Urban Forestry and Covid in 2020 Forum from Chicago Region Trees Initiative August 17, 1-3 p.m. Learn how other community forestry programs are being affected by and overcoming challenges of Covid-19. You'll hear about resources and opportunites to make the best of a tough year, inlcuding information of advocacy, grants, [...]
Council Offers New “Tree City USA Reward Grant”
Michelle Sutton Deadline to Apply is 09/14/20 The NYS Urban Forestry Council is pleased to announce grants for communities to plant large specimen trees or a grove of trees in a prominent location within the community. Full Details, Application, and Contact Info Communities in New York State that [...]
Urban Canopy Can Be a Matter of Life or Death
An article by USDA Forest Service research scientists Michelle Kondo and colleagues in the journal Lancet Planetary Health created a global buzz in reporting results of a new citywide health impact assessment of achieving a 30% canopy cover goal in the City of Philadelphia. If done at a neighborhood scale it would cut [...]
Nafisa’s Onondaga Earth Corps Chronicles: Chapter 3
The Rain Garden in James Pass Arboretum, in the Tipperary Hill neighborhood of Syracuse. Photo by Nafisa Tabassum Nafisa Tabbasum: As a Crew Leader for Onondaga Earth Corps (OEC), my responsibilities include directly supervising a small crew of young adults in either pruning or green infrastructure. In that [...]
Research: Which NYC Urban Green Spaces Support More Bird Species and Why?
Excerpted from a July 21, 2020 eBird article by Kathi Borgmann, "Larger urban green spaces support more bird species in New York City" In a study out this week in Landscape and Urban Planning, Frank La Sorte, a research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and colleagues wanted to [...]
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