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Freeville Fall Follow-Up: Arbor Day Planting Part II
Thank you to Tom Cavataio, Member of the Freeville Village Planning Board and Tree Committee, for this excellent report. Another successful tree planting in the Village of Freeville took place on Saturday, November 10th, 2018. You may have read in a previous blog post that we hosted a limited planting [...]
DEC Announces $2.24 Million in Urban Forestry Grants Awarded to Projects Statewide
DEC ANNOUNCES $2.24 MILLION IN URBAN FORESTRY GRANTS AWARDED TO PROJECTS STATEWIDE Funding Supports Tree Plantings and Projects to Protect Air Quality, Water Quality and Natural Resources New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently announced $2.24 million in grants for urban forestry projects to protect [...]
Services for Our Friend, Brian Skinner
Our longtime Council friend and champion Brian Skinner has passed away. RIP to a kind and generous man, devoted to family, his profession, and the Council. The details for services, and a link to Brian's obituary, are below. If you have a story of a time spent with Brian, or [...]
MFI National Diversity Leadership Opportunity
Update 12/04/18: MFI 2019 is full. […]
Save the Date! ReLeaf 2019: July 18-20 in the Hudson Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=jbkxXlM96-I NY ReLeaf 2019 will be July 18-20 at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh. "What a beautiful campus!" says Council President Karen Emmerich. "It has wonderful views of the Hudson, both north and south, and a view across to Beacon and the Hudson Highlands." Details of the program will come [...]
Watertown’s 17th Annual Fall Planting Event
Volunteers and Watertown City Planner Michael DeMarco (holding stakes) plant a bare root dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in Cosgrove-Sherman St. Park. Reported by Michael DeMarco, Planner for the City of Watertown and ISA Certified Arborist October 20, 2018 marked the City of Watertown’s 17th Annual Fall Tree Planting event [...]
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