TREE TOGA 2016: The biggest and best Tree Toga yet!
TREE TOGA 2016
The biggest and best Tree Toga yet!
The Tree Toga 2016 volunteer team last Saturday, just before lift-off
Photo courtesy of David Aimone
Urban Forestry program update – Three things on our radar
Three things on our radar as we look forward to 2016.
And YOU can help to make all three a success.
April 30 – Save The Date – Annual Arbor Day Planting
More details later, but we can’t do this without the energy and commitment of planting volunteers and tree hosts who
New trees planted with help of volunteers and Rotary Club donation
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| Left to Right, Sustainable Saratoga Board Member Bill Boehmke, Saratoga County Supervisor Peter Martin, Board Member Lin Whittle, Board Chair Harry Moran, and volunteer forestry specialist Rick Fenton. |
Saratoga Springs, NY – October 6, 2015 – Nearly 40
Thanks to our volunteers, Tree Toga 2015 was a great success
THANKS to all who made our second annual Tree Toga planting a success. Especially to all the volunteer planters and tree hosts. The weather was spectacular, if a bit cool. About 70 volunteers gathered at High Rock for training and then
Tree hosts: how to care for your new “baby”
Sustainable Saratoga’s Urban Forestry Project released the following guidelines for tree hosts that received trees as part of our Tree Toga plantings on April 26. We thought we would share these tree care tips with everyone. For questions on care, please contact trees@sustainablesaratoga.org.
Volunteer for TREE TOGA
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Save Saratoga’s elms
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Our first defense is to remove and dispose of sick and dead elms, including those on City and private property.
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Best to do that by mid-April 2014, before the elm bark beetles emerge and spread the fungus to healthy elms.
Urban forest master plan goes public
Saratoga’s first-ever Urban Forest Master Plan (draft) now available to public on City’s website
Sustainable Saratoga inventory provides the foundation for City’s planning efforts.
Public hearing at City Council meeting on May 21, 6:30 PM, in the council chambers.
City Council received the draft Urban Forest Master Plan last week
Reader’s View: West Side project needs improvement
The planned development of the former Ellsworth Ice Cream Co. factory site on the west side of Saratoga Springs is a good urban infill project that Sustainable Saratoga can support, although we wish it would contain some affordable units.
The project will bring more residents to the downtown