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January 2020 TAKING ROOT News
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i-Tree Planting Calculator Analysis of Buffalo’s Fall 2018 Tree Plantings
The planting sites used in Buffalo’s i-Tree Planting Analysis project as part of City Forester Ross Hassinger’s participation in the first-ever i-Tree Online Academy. As part of the first i-Tree Online Academy, participants were asked to complete a comprehensive final capstone project that demonstrated their ability to [...]
Congress Passes FY20 Spending Bill with Increase for UCF
The Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition (SUFC) keeps us posted on the federal funding for UCF. There’s good news in this year’s update. They say, “These gains (and level funds) don’t happen in a vacuum. Thank you all for your work this year to help us spread awareness about the importance [...]
Top Five NYSUFC Blog Posts of 2019
#1 Transplanting and a Deeper Look at “Fall Hazards” Encore! Encore! Originally published on the blog in 2015, this post continues to be highly relevant to our blog readers; in the lifetime of the post, it’s been viewed more than 5300 times. Former NYC Director of Street Tree Planting Matt [...]
Underutilized Trees for Urban Use: Japanese Snowbell
Drupes of Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonica) Photo by Michelle Sutton Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonica) is often confused with its Styracaceae family cousin, Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina). While their flowers are similarly white, pendulous, and bearing yellow stamens, their foliage and fruit are very different. Japanese snowbell foliage is [...]
Green Teens Club Produces Phenomenal Tree ID Guide
The Council received an email from Tyler of Green Teens Club, a national club creating online green resources and doing acts of service in communities. “We are made up of high school student volunteers, but parents and siblings often join in to help out on our projects,” Tyler says. “Teens [...]
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