The New York Tree Trust
The
New York Tree Trust, a program of the City of New
York/Parks & Recreation and the City Parks Foundation,
was established in 1994 to protect, preserve, and
enhance New York City's street, park and forest trees.
The goals of the Tree Trust are to foster public-private
partnerships in urban forestry, raise public awareness
of the importance of urban forestry conservation and
stewardship, promote new technologies to enhance tree
survival and advance innovative management tools,
and revitalize historically and arboreally significant
municipal trees.
- Commemorative
Trees, planted through the
New York Tree Trust are documented in the Tree Trust's
book, Commemorative
Trees, housed in the Arsenal
in Central Park and on-line.
- Teens
for Neighborhood Trees, in partnership with
United Neighborhood Houses
and Trees New York,
and funded by the Levitt Foundation, works with
inner city youth in settlement houses in a program
devoted to neighborhood action to enhance communities
through the planting and stewardship of street and
park trees.
- Stewardship
for Young Trees fosters citizen participation
in the maintenance of young street trees and greenstreets
(Greenstreets is the city program to replace concrete
medians and triangles with trees and shrubs).
- Block
and Neighborhood Grants re-greens neighborhoods
by matching donors to communities bereft of trees,
but with active community volunteer networks.
- Tree
Rescue focuses on the care of mature
trees by removing potential health threats and mitigating
damages such as strangling metal fencing, canopy
debris, and growth-restrictive tree pits.
- Street
Tree Labeling provides tree labels identifying
street trees by species, using common and botanical
names, to enrich our observations of the natural
world.
- Sidewalk
Arboreta has planted nearly 100 new trees
at nine sites. Displaying a diverse collection of
street tree species, a Sidewalk Arboretum is a living
laboratory for the public, providing a window on
nature in an urban setting.
- Great
Tree Preservation
has published Great Trees of New York City: A Guide.
The program was established in 1995 to manage, preserve
and protect the great trees of New York City.
Related
Information
City
Parks Foundation website