Trees of Carl Schurz Park
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Additional Resources
Videos & Films
‘Beneficial and Beautiful Native Trees and Shrubs’ with Tim Kennelty.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County. 2/19/21. 1:15:43
‘How trees talk to each other’ by Suzanne Simard.
TED Summit. 7/22/16. 18:10
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other?
Apps
Picture This App
Botanist in your pocket. Online plant encyclopedia and plant identifier
https://www.picturethisai.com/app?
Organizations & Websites
Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Arboretum. Step Into Our Tree Museum
https://madisonsquarepark.org/horticulture/arboretum/
National Wildlife Federation.
How Trees Make a Difference.
https://www.nwf.org/Trees-for-Wildlife/About/Trees-Make-a-Difference
Trees New York.
Evergreening Our City.
Site includes ‘Sam’s Tree Tips’, a short video on street tree care
https://treesny.org/community-tree-plantings/evergreening-the-city/
Educational Resources
NYC Trees, an interactive map of NYC street trees bringing NYC’s urban forest to you. Also includes useful statistics on environmental benefits of trees.
City of New York Parks & Recreation
https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org
NYC Parks Tree Time.
City of New York Parks & Recreation
https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/tree-care/nyc-parks-tree-time
Planting and Caring for Your Seedlings.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/tftplantmaint.pdf
6 Ways Trees Benefit All of Us.
The Nature Conservancy. 10/9/2020
Includes short video, ‘Trees are more than just trees’
Street Tree Activity Book. Designed for children.
Trees New York
https://treesny.org/street-tree-activity-book/
Urban Trees Make a Difference.
US Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Articles & Reports
New York City’s Surprising Wealth of Native Trees, Sarah DeWeerdt.
Anthropocene Magazine. December 2018.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/12/new-york-citys-surprising-wealth-of-native-trees/
6 Ways Trees Benefit All of Us.
The Nature Conservancy. 10/9/2020
Includes short video, ‘Trees are more than just trees’
The State of the Urban Forest in New York City.
The Nature Conservancy. 2021.
https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/State-of-the-Urban-Forest-NYC.pdf
Books
Barnard, Edward Sibley. New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area.
City of New York Parks & Recreation. Columbia University Press. 2002
National Audubon Society. Trees of North America.
Knopf. 2021
Nelson, Gil, Christopher J. Earle, Richard Spellenberg. Trees of Eastern North America.
Princeton Field Guides. Princeton University Press. 2014
Powers, Richard. The Overstory: A Novel.
W.W. Norton & Company. 2018
Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
DK Publishing/Knopf. 2021
Tallamy, Douglas W. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees.
Timber Press. 2021
Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate.
Greystone Books Ltd. 2016