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May 7, 2025 erickaoconnell

Your Voice Can Plant the Next Million Trees By Erika, Roosevelt Island Daily Beat Reporter If you have ever lingered beneath the gingko grove next to Blackwell House on a humid summer afternoon, you know how a…

Jun 18, 2024 Life as a City Tree: Observations from a Hackberry In a bustling city, a hackberry tree observes human habits and muses on their peculiar contradictions. From frantic busyness to tech addiction…

May 19, 2024 A Tree Scar Now Marks the Ghost of a Red Maple RIOC Killed in 2022 Sometimes, it’s not easy to see the mark left by a tree cut down, but for the maple tree destroyed on November…

Feb 13, 2024 Why Urban Forests Are Just Right for Roosevelt Island IDig2Learn‘s Christina Delfico asked for RIOC‘s partnership in developing urban forests on Roosevelt Island, but one is already underway. A small nest…

Oct 24, 2023 The De-Greening of Roosevelt Island 2023, and Now the Hunt for Cornel West No matter how RIOC phrases the annual de-greening of Roosevelt Island – this year, it’s remediation – it always raises questions, ones…

Dec 27, 2022 RIOC Killed a Healthy Red Maple – But Left the Remains Behind A healthy red maple caught the full assault of RIOC‘s war on trees in early November. The power-saw-wielding state agency cooked up…

Nov 17, 2022 Haynes’s Apologia for Harming Trees Fails, Raises New Questions RIOC President/CEO Shelton J. Haynes’s apologia came after numerous Roosevelt Islanders protested another incident in the local war on trees. Cheers to…

Nov 16, 2022 The RIOC War on Trees Claims a Century-Old Beauty on Main Street The continuing war on trees that RIOC started two decades ago, wiping out innumerable, often healthy trees, hit the community again. Already…

Nov 11, 2022 Brace Yourselves for RIOC Tree Pruning, Out of Season Again Tree pruning is best done, for the sake of the trees, in winter. That’s because the trees are dormant then, their leaves…

Jul 27, 2022 Shut Up. Listen Hard. Because Most of the Talk Is Silent The vast majority of conversations in the world, we discovered from Suzanne Simard’s brilliant Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of…

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