Urban Forestry News and Views

New York times  article on increasing the urban tree canopy:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tree-Canopies.html?scp=3&sq=trees&st=nyt#

The february Partnership meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 20th, at 5:30 in the Juneau Watershed Partnership Conference Room which is behind their office in room 424 of the Senate Building. 

Here is some information on the new second edition of Viereck and Little’s Alaska Trees and Shrubs :

treeshrub-review.doc

A link to a Guide to Birch Trees, from the University of Saskatchewan Extension Service:

http://www.gardenline.usask.ca/trees/birch2.html

Here is a link to the Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia, an online guide to forest tree disease from the Canadian Forest Service:

http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/diseases/ctd/index_e.html

Here are  articles on tree fertilization from Michigan State  and Cornell University Extension Services:

http://web1.msue.msu.edu/imp/modft/fte78601.html

http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/tree-shrub-maintenance/treefert.html