With only days left before the end of one year, and the start of a new one fast upon us – we started to get sentimental. This has been a big year for us – not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of growth and change. We’ve expanded our boundaries, taken new directions, celebrated [...]
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Lauren’s Holiday Tree Memory
When we read Lauren’s submission, we were so moved, we had to share it last. Her father’s original intent, and eventual realization, about trees and nature in the holidays is exactly what we wanted to capture with our campaign. We’re very happy to share with you a holiday story with “extraordinary beauty:” I was born [...]
Read full postStephanie’s Holiday Tree Memory
Stephanie Juchs, our Community Education Coordinator, sharing her holiday story: Growing up I’ll never forget what always started off as an idyllic search for our family’s Christmas tree and every year ended more like a scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Each year the week after Thanksgiving my family would head to a tree farm in rural [...]
Read full postWinter Almanac 2012
The Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year, the official start of winter, and, special to 2012 — not the end of the world! In fact, it is time to start preparing your trees for the cold months ahead. Doing so will help to prevent them from falling victim to the cold, dry conditions [...]
Read full postJessica’s Holiday Tree Memory
Jessica Sanders, our Technical Services & Research Director, has an extensive educational and research background in urban forestry. But that’s hardly where her love for and connection to trees starts. She has several incredible memories to share with us – and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did: Measuring a tree: I [...]
Read full postMark D.’s Holiday Tree Memory
Development Associate Mark DeSantis is a spark-plug in our office – creativity, imagination, energy – but when we asked him to use these skills for our “Holiday Tree Memories” campaign, he went above and beyond. We asked him to think of a memory of his that would inspire our constituents to submit their own stories [...]
Read full postJabbari Brew on ISA Arborist Certification
As the latest edition of the Leaflet mentioned in the “Casey Trees News in Brief” section, another one of our staff officially received his arborist certification: Jabbari Brew! With more and more of our staff reaching for higher certifications, we thought Jabbari deserved a bit of spotlight for all of his hard work. “Sara, our Urban Forestry Manager, was [...]
Read full postTree Talk Replay – December 13, 2012
This session was originally held live online on December 13, 2012. Check out the most current Tree Talk session. Tree Talk is an online chat series held every fourth Thursday of the month at noon to discuss urban forestry and tree care topics. Participation is free. Suggest a topic to cover. Email your suggestion to treedc@caseytrees.org.
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