COMING SOON! THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL NEW YORK RELEAF STATE CONFERENCE FOR 2012 PRELIMINARY Brochure, Workshop/Tour/Event Outline, and Registration Form Now Available! July 19th - 21st at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY
The New York State Urban and Community Forestry Council is a
volunteer group, organized formally in 1999, to advise and
assist the NYS Department of Conservation (DEC) in executing
its Urban and Community Forestry policies.The Council's major
funding, supplied through the USDA Forest Service,is supplemented
by membership dues and independent contributions...
CommuniTree Stewards: Getting Urban Forestry Work Done With Volunteers
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. That certainly is the case with the
CommuniTree Steward Program in Syracuse, run by Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Onondaga County (CCE). Syracuse's urban tree canopy had been on the decline
since the onslaught of Dutch elm disease of the 1950's and was further decimated
by the 1998 Labor Day Storm. These two events drove home two very salient lessons
for urban forestry: 1) diversify your tree species and 2) prune away weak branch
unions while trees are still young.
Preaching to the choir is an American idiom that conjures up images of activities that are a waste of time. In this way, it is usually thought of in a negative sense. A similar saying is "kicking at an open door". Preaching to the choir has been defined as, "The pointlessness of a preacher trying to convert those who, by their presence, have already demonstrated their faith". The saying seems to have first appeared fairly recently, in 1973. It is now ubiquitous in our lexicon and there was even a Hollywood movie with that title released in 2006.
