by Rik De Vreese | Jun 14, 2017 | EFUF2017
The EFUF awards panel is delighted to announce that the award of Young European Urban Forester of the Year Award 2017 has gone to John Parker who works for Transport for London as Senior Technical Specialist – Arboriculture & Landscape, and who is chair of the London Tree Officers Association (LTOA).
The award committee were very impressed by John’s commitment to bring together those involved with management of individual trees with those engaged in land use based urban forestry, governance and planning as well as his skills and activity in promoting urban forestry. The awards panel were faced with a significant task given the high standard and number of applications received in 2017.
The award is now in its fifth year and is supported by Green Infrastructure and Urban Forestry Consultancy, MD² Consulting Ltd and the scientific journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Background information on the Young Urban Forester Award can be found on this page.
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by Naomi Zürcher | Jun 5, 2017 | Events
Dear Colleagues
There are several upcoming webinars that offer excellent Urban Forestry-related discussions:
Title: Citizen Science and Open Data in Urban Forestry – Opportunities and Challenges.
Date & Time: Wednesday, 14th June; 7:00PM BST, 8:00PM CEST, 9:00PM EEST.
Citizen Science and open data are currently being used by Urban Forest managers to engage the public and stakeholders. There is concern about the need for data coordination, quality control, resource commitment, etc. This USDA Forest Service offered webinar will present findings from a study of volunteer urban tree inventory data quality as well as other Citizen Science projects.
Please register using the following link:
https://usfs.adobeconnect.com/ucf/
Title: Diversity Now!! – Increasing Resilience of Urban Forests by Expanding Species Diversity.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 20 June; 5:00PM BST, 6:00PM CEST, 7:00PM EEST.
This Penn State Extension webinar will discuss the potential for increasing UF resilience by expanding species diversity. Subjects such as assisted migration, phenotypic plasticity, monotypic species, urban microclimates and hardy cultivars will be discussed in the context of a changing climate and increased threats from pathogens.
Please register as a guest, 15 minutes before webinar starts, using the following link:
https://meeting.psu.edu/pacommunityforestry
Title: Soil Profile Rebuilding – Rehabilitating Compacted Soils.
Date & Time: Wednesday, 21 June; 7:00PM BST. 8:00PM CEST, 9:00PM EEST.
This upcoming webinar from the Tree Fund Webinar Series will explore recent research projects evaluating a soil rehabilitation technique known as Soil Profile Rebuilding – a technique which can be used to remediate soils on site. Dr. Susan Day will present an overview of this technique which is also available in the form of a written specification to allow for easy adoption.
Please pre-register using the following link:
http://www.treefund.org/webinars
by Rik De Vreese | Jun 4, 2017 | EFUF2017
While some of the EFUF delegates are still enjoing Barcelona, I arrived home this morning after a 16 hour stressless train trip to Brussels (shared with a Swiss delegate up to Paris). The Forum has always been a special event for me, and arriving home is always connected with mixed feelings. Being happy to be at home again, feeling re-energised and full of new ideas, being thankfull for seeing old friends and making new contacts, but feeling a bit lonely without the EFUF family around myself.
The 20th European Forum on Urban Forestry was not only special as it was a jubilee edition, but also for being organised in such a wonderfull city. I didn’t expect Barcelona to be so leafy and was very surprised by vastness and quality of the Collserola park.
We were hosted by Area Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) and the Centro Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya, and I was happily surprised by the active contribution and participation of members of all the co-organizing institutions. Your contribution greatly facilitated the Forum to achieve its aim to be a science-policy-practice interface. This has always been a challenge, and I think this year’s Forum was very successfull in this sense.
The EFUF Steering Group will closely cooperate with the staff at AMB to make the presentations available online in the coming weeks. We also invite you all to write a post for www.efuf.org on your presentation, or on your work in general.
Thanks again to all who contributed, before and behind the curtains. It has been a wonderfull experience, once more.
by Rik De Vreese | May 29, 2017 | Articles
Trees can make a city sidewalk prettier, sure. But that’s not even their best trick. A growing pile of research suggests that planting more urban trees, if done right, could save tens of thousands of lives around the world each year — by soaking up pollution and cooling down deadly heat waves.
In fact, as a
fascinating new report from the Nature Conservancy details, a well-targeted tree campaign could be of the smartest investments a hot, polluted city can make. Which seems important, given that the world’s cities will add about 2 billion people this century, and they’re only getting hotter.
“A lot of cities still think of trees as just ornamentation,” says Rob McDonald, the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy’s Global Cities program and a co-author of the report. “But they really do so much more than that. And the evidence suggests that we should start thinking of trees as a crucial part of our public-health infrastructure.”
Read the full story on https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/11/4/13510352/planting-trees-pollution-heat-waves.
by Naomi Zürcher | May 23, 2017 | EFUF2017
The deadline for emailing the completed European Young Urban Forester of the Year 2017 application has been extended until Monday, May 29th. All completed applications must be received no later than 18:00 GBT.
For more information: see Application for European Young Urban Forester of the Year 2017 open.
by Naomi Zürcher | May 19, 2017 | Events
Join Dr. David Nowak, USDA Forest Service Researcher and i-Tree Project leader, in this one-hour, interactive session discussing the importance and value of the science that is powering i-Tree. This Informational Web Workshop will look at upcoming developments and science-based future features that the i-Tree suite will offer to users.
Date: Wednesday, 24th May 2017
Time: 6:00 PM GBT, 7:00 PM for the rest of Europe
Pre-registration is required. Please use the following link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-tree-online-workshop-state-of-the-science-tickets-34662723138
by Rik De Vreese | May 6, 2017 | EFUF2017
Applications are now welcomed for the prestigious European Young Urban Forester of the Year (YUFA) 2017. The closing date for applications is the 29th May 2017. The award, which includes a year’s subscription to Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, a certificate and a cash prize of €200, will be announced at the European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) in Barcelona on the 2nd June 2017.
For Eligibilty and Conditions, consult the dedicated page on the YUFA-award.
Applications are to be made using the European Young Urban Forester of the Year 2017 application form. Please download the form and mail it to the mentioned address.
The winner of the YUFA award will be announced during the closing session of EFUF 2017 in Barcelona.
The award is sponsored by MD² Consulting Ltd and the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
by Naomi Zürcher | May 1, 2017 | Events
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
by Naomi Zürcher | May 1, 2017 | Articles
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
by Naomi Zürcher | Apr 16, 2017 | Articles
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.
