Press

• Bloomberg CityLab: "Can Planting Trees Make a City More Equitable?" August 28, 2020
• Bloomberg CityLab: "Can Planting Trees Make a City More Equitable?" August 28, 2020
• The New York Times: "Stir-Crazy New Yorkers Discovered an Idyllic Spot. Will They Trample It?" July 28, 2020
• The New York Times: "Stir-Crazy New Yorkers Discovered an Idyllic Spot. Will They Trample It?" July 28, 2020
• Next City: "How COVID-19 Is Inspiring Houston Officials to Preserve Natural Areas." September 22, 2020
• Next City: "How COVID-19 Is Inspiring Houston Officials to Preserve Natural Areas." September 22, 2020
• Gotham Gazette: "CUNY Students Branch Out for Internship Mapping City Park Greenery." August 21, 2020
• Gotham Gazette: "CUNY Students Branch Out for Internship Mapping City Park Greenery." August 21, 2020
• Yale School of the Environment: "The new forestry is urban." July 1, 2020
• Yale School of the Environment: "The new forestry is urban." July 1, 2020
• Time Out New York: "This interactive NYC map shows the closest bit of nature to your apartment." June 4, 2020
• City Limits: "Opinion: Now More Than Ever, NYC Needs Nature, and NYC’s Nature Needs Funding." June 2, 2020
• The Nature of Cities: "What is the status and outlook for forested natural areas in your city? What actions are needed to help them thrive?" June 1, 2020
• The Architect's Newspaper: "A hidden victim of the coronavirus pandemic? NYC’s parks." May 12, 2020
• Green Seattle Partnership: "Seattle Joins 11 American Cities to Discuss Care of City Forests." April 7, 2020
• Cities and the Environment: "The Science and Practice of Managing Forests in Cities." March 2020
• Testimony From Sarah Charlop-Powers to the New York City Council on the NYC Parks Preliminary Budget. March 13, 2020
• City Limits: "Climate Change Poses Serious Challenges for City’s Natural Areas." September 13, 2019
• America Adapts - The Climate Change Podcast: "Resilient New York: Urban Forestry, Shared Stewardship and Climate Adaptation." August 5, 2019
• Curbed: "Explore NYC’s urban wilderness with this handy map." June 27, 2019
• AM New York: "NYC battling invasive plants, bugs to save green spaces" July 16, 2019
• CBS New York: "NYC Battling Invasive Species Creeping Across City’s Parks" July 11, 2019
• Meeting of the Minds: "The Care of Forested Natural Areas in American Cities." July 2, 2019
• CBC News: "'We're losing these': Man campaigns to save native species in Toronto's ravines." June 24, 2019
• Brooklyn Paper: "Civic gurus show off renovated Marine Park hiking trail." May 21, 2019
• Brooklyn Eagle: "A new trail shows off Marine Park’s wild side." May 20, 2019
• News 12 Brooklyn: "New trail unveiled in Marine Park." May 19, 2019
• Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation: "The Forests in our Urban Backyards." April 24, 2019
• New York Daily News: "A new commitment to protect New York City’s natural spaces and resources." April 22, 2019
• News 12 The Bronx: Interview with Helen Forgione and Maggie Geenfield. April 17, 2019
• New York State Urban Forestry Council: "Report on Forested Natural Areas in American Cities." April 13, 2019
• Norwood News: "News Briefs: Bronx Parks Preservation Grant." April 11, 2019
• West Side Spirit: "Checking in on Riverside Park." April 9, 2019
• Spectrum NY1: "Why Invasive Plants are Putting the City's Forests at Risk." April 3, 2019
• Patch: "Conservancy Partnership To Benefit Riverside Park's Forest Areas." April 3, 2019
• Mother Jones: "America Has Forgotten About Its Urban Trees." April 1, 2019
• New York Times: "Defending New York City’s Forests Against Invaders." March 29, 2019
• CityLab: "America’s Management of Urban Forests Has Room for Improvement." March 25, 2019
• Canarsie Courier: "Abandoned Cars Removed from Marine Park." December 24, 2018
• The Daily Mail: "The 'Urban Forests' of New York Revealed: New Study Finds the City has Five Million Trees in 'Forested Natural Areas.'" December 7, 2018
• Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science: "Missing the Forest for the Trees: NYC Forest Inventory Paints Unexpected Picture." December 6, 2018
• New York League of Conservation Voters: "Eighteen Groups Testify for Greater Investment in Urban Forests at Council Parks Committee Hearing." November 15, 2018
• Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science: "Alum Introduces New Yorkers to Forest in Their Own Backyard." October 3, 2018
• The Brooklyn Daily: "Walk on the Wild Side." August 10, 2018.
• Next City: "What Cities Are Doing About the ‘Shocking’ Loss of Urban Forests." May 23, 2018
• Environmental News Network: "Fortifying the Resiliency of NYC’s Urban Forests." May 14, 2018
• WNYC: "Protecting NYC's Forests Against Climate Change" on The Brian Lehrer Show. May 11, 2018
• Metro Focus: "The Urban Jungle." May 10, 2018
• Spectrum NY 1: "Preservation Plan for NY Forests." April 20, 2018
• Forest Hills Post: "Forest Park Trust to Receive Training to Protect Park from Climate Change." April 20, 2018
• Queens Courier: "Queens’ Forest Park Trust Will Receive Innovative Resources in Ground-breaking Forest Management Plan." April 18, 2018
• Metro: "NYC Has 25-Year Plan to Protect Its forests From Climate Change." April 16, 2018
• The New York Times: "A Plan for New York City’s Forests. Yes, Forests." April 15, 2018
• The New Yorker: "Tracing (and Erasing) New York's Lines of Desire." February 20, 2017
• The New York Times: "Getting New Yorkers Into the City’s Wilderness. All 10,000 Acres of It." August 11, 2016
• NY1: "New Online Map Makes It Easier to Learn About City Green Spaces." June 24, 2016
• NY1: "Visiting a Park? Interactive Map Offers Help." June 17, 2016
• WNYC Hypothesis: "A Very Different Kind of New York City Map." June 16, 2016
• Curbed: "In a Queens Park, Reclaiming an Urban Wetland." June 9, 2016
• QNS: "Queens is home to the largest tree in a city park and some of the most diverse plant life." June 8, 2016
• DNAinfo: "MAP: Find the Wilderness in New York City." June 6, 2016
• WNYC: "The Rockaway Peninsula Isn't as Old as You Think." June 20, 2016
• Metro: "Nature in NYC is just as diverse as New Yorkers: Report." June 6, 2016
• 6sqft: "Explore Over 10,000 Acres of NYC Parkland With This Interactive Map." June 7, 2016
• Untapped Cities: "Fun Maps: Discover the Natural Parklands in all 5 Boroughs of NYC." June 6, 2016
• Newsday: "Natural Areas Conservancy puts NYC wildlife oasis on the map." June 6, 2016
• AMNY: "Nature conservancy puts NYC wildlife oasis on the map." June 6, 2016
• City Limits: "The Bronx Reclaims its River and Now a Forest, Too." April 2016
• The Observer: “Surprise, New York Turned Into One of the World’s Greenest Cities." April 2016
• Landscape Architecture Magazine: "Where the Parks Have No Names"
• Urban Omnibus: “New Yorkers of the Urban Wild." September 2015
• NY1: “Local College Students Studying Trees Impacted by Hurricane Sandy." August 2015
• Times Ledger: “Salt marsh at Alley Pond gets rehabilitation work.” June 2015
• Queens Courier: “Volunteers restore salt marshes of Alley Pond Park." June 2015
• Pipe Dream: “To keep urban space healthy, alumna stresses going green.” February 2015
• OutdoorFest: “Signs of Wildlife in New York City.” January 2015
• Columbia Spectator: “Where the Wild Things Are: Urban Ecology and the Changing Landscape of New York City.” September 2014
• USDA: “Young Scientists Network, Share Urban Research in New York City.” August 2014
• CUNY: “Biodiversity in Urban Parks: Learning from the 2013 Central Park BioBlitz.” February 2013
• Broadway World: “NYC Parks Celebrates First Year of Partnership with Natural Areas Conservancy in Tour of Pelham Bay.” October 2013

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Research and Publications

• Untapped Common Ground: The Care of Forested Natural Areas in American Cities
• Untapped Common Ground: The Care of Forested Natural Areas in American Cities
• Forest Management Framework for New York City
• Forest Management Framework for New York City
• Invasive Lianas Are Drivers of and Passengers to Altered Soil Nutrient Availability in Urban Forests.
• Invasive Lianas Are Drivers of and Passengers to Altered Soil Nutrient Availability in Urban Forests.
• Defining and Assessing Urban Forests to Inform Management and Policy.
• Defining and Assessing Urban Forests to Inform Management and Policy.
• Urban Park Soil Microbiomes Are a Rich Reservoir of Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity.
• Urban Park Soil Microbiomes Are a Rich Reservoir of Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity.
• A Cityscale Assessment Reveals that Native Forest Types and Overstory Species Dominate New York City Forests
• Nitrogen Regulation by Natural Systems in “Unnatural” Landscapes: Denitrification in Ultraurban Coastal Ecosystems.
• Social-Ecological Research in Urban Natural Areas: An Emergent Process for Integration
• New York City Nature Goals 2050
• Natural Areas Conservancy and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: Encouraging Robust Urban Forests Through Restoration with Climate Change-Adapted Species Palettes
• Urban ecological land-cover mapping for New York City. Final report to the Natural Areas Conservancy. Spatial Informatics Group
• Classification of Natural Areas Conservancy’s Ecological Assessment plots
• Natural Areas Conservancy Inventory of Coastal Wetland Restoration Opportunities in NYC
• Advancing urban ecosystem governance in New York City: Shifting towards a unified perspective for conservation management
• NYC Urban Field Station: Reading the Landscape : A Social Assessment of Parks and their Natural Areas in Jamaica Bay Communities. White Paper, Part I: Social Assessment Overview
• NYC Urban Field Station: Reading the Landscape: Citywide Social Assessment of New York City Parks and Natural Areas in 2013-2014 Paper No. 2
• NYC Urban Field Station 2014 Annual Progress Report
• Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks
• Gardening with New York City's Native Plants
• Biodiversity Handbook for NYC
• Urban Evolutionary Biology
• The Nature of Cities
• Reading the Landscape: Park Profiles 2013 - 2014. Social Assessment Paper No. 3.

More research

Partner Publications

USDA Forest Service: "Fear and fascination: Use and perceptions of New York City’s forests, wetlands, and landscaped park areas," February 2020

USDA Forest Service: "The Written Park: Reading Multiple Urban Park Subjectivities Through Signage, Writing, and Graffiti," January 2019

[Webinar] USDA Forest Service : "Rekindling the Forest in Our City: A story of research, responsibility, and care," December, 2018

NYC Parks: "Salt Marsh Restoration Monitoring Guidelines," October 2018

USDA Forest Service: "The Urban Forest of New York City," September 2018

NYC Parks: "Salt Marsh Restoration Design Guidelines," September 2018

NYC Parks: "Research Permits Report: 2017 Annual Report," July 2018

NYC Parks: "Towards a Salt Marsh Management Plan for NYC: Recommendations for Restoration and Protection," May 2017

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