Project Canopy
This Halloween may be pretty scary - so get out in your urban forest and find a tree spirit or two. I promise you'll feel better. Keep reading to find out how your city can protect its trees, through drought, climate change, and wildfires. But maybe a hands-off approach in reforestation of our bigger forests is something to look at? And don't forget to keep learning - we have a slew of upcoming CEU opportunities in our calendar.
See you in November!
Kim - Outreach Director for Project Canopy, Maine Forest Service
 CSM - There are roughly 300 billion trees in the United States, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The breadth and intensity of wildfires this summer mainly across the Western states – 45,195 fires, 7,928,100 acres burned as of Oct. 8 – provide a stark measure of the increasing impact of climate change.
But there is another, more hopeful effect of climate change recorded in trees: a new vigor in civic engagement and concern for the well-being of communities, especially cities. Read more...
UNH - This year’s drought could affect the future health of red oak and white pine trees in the state, according to a researcher at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.
Heidi Asbjornsen, associate professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire, said the most noticeable thing to an outside observer is that both species will likely see a reduction in overall growth in 2021, based on the results of previous drought experiments. Read more...
 YALE E360 - When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a post-doc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland seven years ago, she says she helped plant 20,000 trees along Chesapeake Bay. It was a salutary lesson. “The ones that grew best were mostly ones we didn’t plant,” she remembers. “They just grew naturally on the ground we had set aside for planting. Lots popped up all around. It was a good reminder that nature knows what it is doing.”
What is true for Chesapeake Bay is probably true in many other places, says Cook-Patton, now at The Nature Conservancy. Sometimes, we just need to give nature room to grow back naturally. Her conclusion follows a new global study that finds the potential for natural forest regrowth to absorb atmospheric carbon and fight climate change has been seriously underestimated. Read more...
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Oct 29 SAF National Convention
Nov 5 Webinar: Tree Biomechanics: Responses to Wind and Gravity 12PM
Nov 2- Dec 14 Urban Trees in Your Backyard Series: Urban Forestry Education Webinars for Homeowners, Tree Professionals, and Community Leaders
Nov 18 Partners in Community Forestry Conference
Dec 1 Webinar: Invasive Woody Plant Management 2PM
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