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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 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
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.
Saratoga’s first-ever Urban Forest Master Plan (draft) now available to public on City’s websiteSustainable 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
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
Spring has sprung, and people in some neighborhoods in and around Saratoga Springs are noticing dark, hairy caterpillars chewing on the leaves of their trees. What we are seeing locally is part of a
New date and time!