Trees of Carl Schurz Park
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Additional Resources
Updated April 2025
Apps
iNaturalist App – share your observations with the wider community.
A joint project of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society
Look for look projects. https://www.inaturalist.org/
PictureThis
Botanist in your pocket. Online plant encyclopedia and plant identifier
https://www.picturethisai.com/app?
PlantNet, a free plant identification tool and a citizen science project, drawing on a large scale database of images and information.
Articles & Reports
Hewitt, Elizabeth. Why ‘Tiny Forests’ are Cropping up in Big Cities. National Geographic Magazine. June 22, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/why-tiny-forests-are-popping-up-in-big-cities
Morales, Roberto. How Trees Can Help Urban Communities Thrive. Sierra Club Website Article. January 2022.
https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2022/01/how-trees-can-help-urban-communities-thrive
DeWeerdt, Sarah. New York City’s Surprising Wealth of Native Trees. Anthropocene Magazine. December 2018.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/12/new-york-citys-surprising-wealth-of-native-trees/
Finley, Melissa. The Great Tree Search . New York Botanical Garden’s ‘Inside our Collections’ Blog. September 13, 2023.
https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/the-great-tree-search/
See Criteria for city-wide nomination of “Great Trees.”
Pool, john-Robb, Gibbs, Alexander, Sadof and Harris, Nancy. 5 Reasons Cities Should Include Trees in Climate Action. Pool, John-Robb, Gibbs, Alexander, Sadof and Harris, Nancy. World Resources Institute Website Article. July 28, 2022.
https://www.wri.org/insights/urban-trees-city-climate-action
6 Ways Trees Benefit All of Us.
The Nature Conservancy. 2/3/25
The Nature Conservancy. The State of the Urban Forest in New York City. The Nature Conservancy Report 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
Cook, Diane, Jenshel, Len and Klinkenborg, Verlyn (Forward). Wise Trees.
Supported by Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society
Harry N. Abrams. 2017.
Day, Leslie and Smoke,Trudy (Ill.) Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2021.
Dove, Tony and Woolridge, Ginger. Essential Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States: The Guide to Creating a Sustainable Landscape. Imagine. 2018
Garmey, Jane and Hales, Mick. City Green: Public Gardens of New York. Monicelli Press. 2018.
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
Oudolf, Piet and Gerritsen, Henk. Planting the Natural Garden. Timber Press. 2019.
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
Educational Resources
The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-Ups by Gina Ingoglia
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 2013.
North American Forests. A permanent exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC).
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/north-american-forests
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
Organizations & Websites
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. This “Museum of Trees Teaching the World about Plants” offers extensive information on its Collections.
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/
Madison Square Park Conservancy Arboretum.
Step Into Our Tree Museum
https://madisonsquarepark.org/horticulture/arboretum/
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
National Wildlife Federation.
How Trees Benefit Communities.
https://www.nwf.org/Trees-for-Wildlife/About/Trees-Make-a-Difference
New York Botanical Garden
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/
Videos & Films
‘Beneficial and Beautiful Native Trees and Shrubs’ with Tim Kennelty.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County. 2/19/21. 1:15:43
‘Forests and Climate’. See Produced by Sierra Club. See Forests and Climate section of Website.
https://www.sierraclub.org/forests
‘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?
‘Intelligent Trees – The Documentary’, featuring Suzanne Simard and Peter Wohlleben.
2017
https://www.intelligent-trees.com/
Available via Amazon Prime or Vimeo.
‘The Importance of Urban Trees’ featuing Bill Toomey, Director for Forest Health Protection. The Nature Conservancy. April, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhuiP43Ip0
‘Nature of Oaks’ with Douglas Tallamy, co-founder, Homegrown National Park.
New York Botanical Garden Lecture. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYgQcAXm7xY