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 New York Times - Walking in New York this season, I stumble into a time warp. The smell of fir from sidewalk Christmas tree vendors plunges me into memories: sparkling red and silver lights on childhood holiday boughs, the judder of a saw in my hand as I built spruce bookshelves, and the songs of wrens and hermit thrushes along a forested trail in Canada. This portal into the past is opened by odor alone, by the fir needles perfuming whole city blocks.
No other sense is as direct as smell. No other sense is as ancient. Smell bypasses the neural processing centers that mediate all other senses. The aroma of fir trees flies me directly into specific wordless memories: childhood holidays, hand-sawn woodwork and my feet tramping through wet forests... Read more...
 Urban areas have a bad rep when it comes to their relationship the environment. So much so that people generally consider cities to be the opposite of nature. This isn’t without good reasoning. Since the Industrial Revolution, cities have been a place of concrete, glass, factories and office buildings. The first step in creating a new urban area was (and often still is) to remove all the natural environment’s features to make way for our rigid lines of zoning.
But our perception of urban life is changing. By embracing urban ecology in the form of green infrastructure and biophilic design, we allow ourselves to work with nature, not against it. Read more...
 Understanding urban tree growth is an important tool not only for managers of urban forests, but also for designers of urban infrastructure as the built environment often contains highly variable sites. The ability to anticipate the growth response of trees over time in different sites can assist urban foresters and natural resource managers to select and manage trees more effectively to meet objectives. A growing number of studies investigating urban tree performance based on site characteristics using different tree performance metrics indicate the value in urban site assessments and highlight a need for a standardized tree performance metric. Read more...
Webinar: Managing Emerald Ash Borer - Jan 3, 12pm www.joinwebinar.com & enter: 252-290-115
Webinar: More Than Good Looks: How trees influence urban stormwater management in green infrastructure practices - Jan 9, 12pm http://www.fs.fed.us/research/urban-webinars/
Maine Ag Show - Jan 15-17, Augusta https://www.maine.gov/dacf/ard/market_promotion/ag_trade_show.shtml
ISA New England Annual Meeting - Jan 17 https://www.newenglandisa.org/events/97th-annual-meeting-ctpa
Grow Maine Green Expo - Jan 23, Augusta https://plantsomethingmaine.org/events/grow-maine-green-expo-2019/
Webinar: The Salt Dilemma: Growing Better Urban Trees in Northern Climates - Feb 5, 2pm https://treefund.org/webinars
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