Students to inventory Long Island street trees

Nina BassukFrom an article Learning to inventory East Rockaway trees in the July 28 Long Island Herald.

“Cornell University has chosen East Rockaway in Nassau County to train students in doing a village-wide street tree inventory. On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday August 8, five teams, headed by Professor Nina Bassuk (right) of the Cornell University Urban Horticulture Institute, will be collecting data on village street trees. Other members of the teams will be local high school and Girl Scout youth and members of the Village Tree Advisory Board.”

The article goes on to point out the importance of street trees and how inventorying them can help identify species that are adaptable to climate change and hotter, drier conditions.

Read the whole article.

Find out more about street tree inventories at the Community Forestry website.

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