With opportunities for free muscle-building forestry work to relaxing sunset kayak cruises, New York City is practically begging you to play outside!
Also, please absorb urban ecology smarts from the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities summer lecture series, which is another wonderful reason to visit Governors Island now that it’s truly becoming a central public space! [...]
Archive for July, 2008
WildWire: July 11 and July 12…More Coming
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, Tree of Heaven! Oh, Ghetto Palm!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Flowers, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, volunteer, tagged Ailanthus, ambonese, andrew blechman, conference house, edible, erik baard, folk medicine, forest, forestry, ghetoo palm, herbal, invasive, nature calendar, new york, new york city, pigeon, plant, poverty tree, Queens, species, Staten Island, sunnyside, tree of heaven, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, volunteer, wildman steven brill on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard
As I walked past the Sunnyside Railyards yesterday I spotted a tree with a crown that each year is generously laden with green-gold pods. It’s rising up from beside the tracks, reaching eye level for strollers on the south side of the overpass. It occurred to me that while I’ve seen this kind [...]
Pigeon Netter Netted!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Vertebrates, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged andrew blechman, department of environmental conservation, doe fund, erik baard, extinction, in defense of animals, martha, nature calendar, new york, new york bird club, new york city, new york city pigeon rescue central, passenger, pigeon, pigeon day, rock dove, shooting, tony avella, uft, united federation of teachers, urban ecology, urban environment on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
One of the stupider “sports” people have come up with is pigeon shooting, where the birds are released from boxes into the line of yahoos’ ready fire. In a 1902 debate over a bill banning the sport from New York, a state senator compared that lack of humanity and sportsman-like behavior to shutting a [...]
