Dana O'Malley grew up in Hoosick Falls, New York, a small rural town northeast of Albany. She attended St. Lawrence University from 2014-2018 for environmental studies and geology. In 2017, Dana interned with the Student Conservation Association which led to getting involved in trail work and various [...]
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) honors ten "Frederick Law Olmsted Award" recipients who stepped up after the October 12-13, 2006 freak snowstorm in which more than 12,000 trees in the City's Olmsted-designed park system were damaged by nearly 2 feet of snow. Here's an excellent video [...]
Sister Johnice of St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center in Buffalo joined the community around the Broadway Fillmore area to help plant trees. Here, a priest from St. Adalbert’s blesses the new plantings. Photo by Paul Maurer This is the first in a series of [...]
Measuring Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) during the in-house, grant-funded inventory. In 2011, the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) successfully applied for a Round 10 Urban and Community Forestry Cost-Share Grant from NYS DEC. Among other things, the funds went toward updates to the City of [...]