The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation, will present its next monthly UF webinar, entitled: “Selecting Tough Trees for Tough Urban Sites” on Thursday, May 4th at 5:00 PM, British Daylight Time and 6:00 PM for the rest of Europe. Additional information as well as registration procedures can be found at the following link:
http://www.urbanforestrytoday.org
This resource, a collaboration between i-Tree and Davey Institute, offers sustainable strategies for Urban Forest management.
http://www.itreetools.org/resources/content/Sustainable_Urban_Forest_Guide_14Nov2016.pdf
Noteworthy Requirements for Conifer and Hardwood Selection
Tree Shopping Guide – selecting quality in the nursery
Dear Colleagues:
Authored for a NYC Root Zone seminar entitled The Art of Woody Plant Selection, the two resources, noted above, were both developed as informative evaluation tools for landscape professionals who specify, inspect and tag woody plant material. They have been incorporated into the efuf.org library (under Media) as open source and can be accessed using the following links:
Tree Shopping Guide – selecting quality at the nursery
noteworthy requirements for conifer and hardwood selection
.Any suggestions, comments, etc are encouraged in order to expand the knowledge base.
Exploring Urban Forestry’s Reduction of Health Care Expenditures. Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the next webinar of the 2016-2017 season of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services.
Date: 12 April 2017
Time: 11:45 AM US Eastern Standard Times (16:45 GBT, 17:45 European continent)
To register, please use the following link:
https://yalesom.zoom.us/webinar/register/ba7a401cc051ff2ad746f627e8486654
An article in the Guardian (23 March 2017) has stated that the EC is poised to pass regulations that would ban the use of Neonicotinoid pesticides throughout Europe. The only exclusion would be greenhouse production.
As a Consulting Arborist, I have witnessed the devastating results of Neonic use on pollinator and beneficial insect populations. While many professionals who use these chemicals are conscientious and follow label instructions to the letter, Neonics are systemics that have a multi-month field life and so even being true to the label does not prevent pollinator mortality.
Here’s the link to the article, announcing this important step forward in increasing quality of life for all things that co-exist with us, within the Urban Forest and beyond:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/23/europe-poised-for-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides