I had a great time Friday night at the 17th Annual Treasure the Chesapeake Celebration in Annapolis. The event is a fundraiser to support the work of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. The Chesapeake Bay Trust is a nonprofit grant-making organization dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers through environmental education, community…
DetailsLast week the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) had its spring meeting. Discussion focused on the theory of urban heterogeneity. If that sounds like it may be confusing, we got a great example (shown below) of how the patchy distribution of ash trees in Baltimore and the patchy invasion of emerald ash borer may cause unequally…
DetailsThe Chesapeake Stormwater Network is a network of nearly 7,000 stormwater professionals, primarily, but not exclusively, within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. They do a lot of great things – one of them is helping to clean up urban stormwater with BUBBA. No, BUBBA is not my fun-loving uncle. It is an acronym for Best Urban BMP in…
DetailsThere are Urban Waters Federal Partnerships in 19 U.S. cities. These partnerships convene 14 agencies of the federal family and connect them to state, local, and NGO partners to develop place-based solutions to urban water quality problems. Last year the national network of partnerships reached out to a variety of NGOs to sign…
DetailsI’ve been fortunate to help care for some very special trees. When I worked for Maryland DNR, I helped care for the Wye Oak in Wye Mills, MD, which stood for decades as the National Champion white oak (the largest known white oak in the US). I was also around when that grand tree came…
DetailsI drive, walk, or run by this tree just about every day. It has no bark most of the way around the base, and the wood beneath is significantly decayed. It looks like it could fall down any minute – right? I took the picture of the tree from the roadway. It is a divided…
DetailsLast fall, we talked about a paper we collaborated on with Michael Battaglia of Michigan Tech Research Institute, Geoff Buckley of Ohio University, and Morgan Grove of U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station Baltimore Urban Field Station. The paper considered two East Baltimore neighborhoods that have potential for enhanced tree canopy but have social barriers…
DetailsThe Reception and Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Urban Forests Coaliton were great successes. Wednesday night we had our reception at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. SUFC Chair Don Winsett addresses attendees at the Reception We are grateful to our host, the U.S. Botanic Garden and to our Sponsor, Congressman…
DetailsLast week we had a great time at TreeBaltimore’s winter gathering at Cylburn Arboretum’s Vollmer Center. A packed house broke bread and heard about what’s been happening and what’s on the horizon for TreeBaltimore. The effort provides technical and resource assistance in a variety of ways, from free trees to how to plant a tree…
DetailsThe Los Angeles River is about to undergo a major change. A huge investment is being made to transform the river to enhance water quality, provide green infrastructure, and improve access and environmental equity by way of the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration project. Rendering from the USACE LA River Study It is a massive,…
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