Support the 2023 Tour des Trees!
Support the 2023 Tour des Trees!
The New York State Arborists are longtime supporters of the TREE Fund and the Tour des Trees.
This year, the 2023 Tour des Trees will take place from Tuesday, September 26 thru Monday, October 2 starting in Reno, NV, passing Lake Tahoe, and ending in Half Moon Bay, CA. Registration closes on July 31, but there are only about 30 rider slots still available.
What is the Tour des Trees?
The Tour des Trees is an annual long-distance cycling adventure which serves as the primary public outreach and community engagement event for Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund). Since 1992, Tour des Trees riders have cycled through communities in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., planting trees, educating children and shining a light on the work done by arboriculture professionals and the importance of science-based tree care.
Are You an Incidental Line Clearance Arborist?
Are You an Incidental Line Clearance Arborist?
By Jim Maloney, National Grid
Are you an Incidental Line Clearance Arborist? Have you discovered the utilities’ long-held secret to determining what voltage you’re working nearby? Is it counting how many discs make up the insulator? Nope. Pssst. Peek at the transformer. You’ll find a label on most of our newer ones stating what voltage its designed for. Can’t find a transformer, the line is crackling overhead and the hair on your arms are standing up? You might want to ask your local utility for I’m positive that you’re not where you should be!
But how about configuration? Do you know how that distribution was designed? Is it Delta or Wye? And why does that matter? Your safety is why.
President's 2023 NYSA Annual Association Report
President's 2023 NYSA Annual Association Report
By John Wickes, President
More than 330 people joined us at the 2023 NYSA Annual Conference this year in Suffern, NY. I want to share more broadly some of the remarks I shared as part of the Annual Association Report given typically given by the president. As we launch our new Shade Tree Notes blog, we thought this would be the best place to do so.
We started our Annual Conference with a new theme, “Growing Together Through Collaboration,” and we have been doing just that. Our leaders, speakers, staff and so many of you, connected with one another, even before the conference to make the event a successful one. Many of our speakers, including our keynote, Phillip Van Wassenaer, came to us from collaborative relationships, formed over years, and even decades.
