Volunteer with NYC Parks for Trees Count 2025! At each event you will receive a tote bag with all the materials needed to count trees. Next, we’ll provide a 30-minute training session that includes the basics of tree identification and how to measure and assess each tree. Using our Tree Census app, you’ll split up into different zones within the park to start counting trees! After completing your first training event, you are welcome to continue counting trees on your own in smaller parks across the city.
Registration is required. Registration begins on July 26.
Join the Urban Park Rangers on an exploration of the forest from fungal networks that live out of sight in the soil to towering canopies that are hundreds of years old. Learn how wildlife, plants, and all the micro ecosystems of the forest collaborate to persevere through major climactic change and join in on a discussion considering the wisdom that these woodlands hold in the future of New York City’s green spaces.
Registration not required.
Join the Urban Park Rangers for a monthly hike exploring Inwood Hill Park. The hike will begin at the Inwood Hill Nature Center. This month’s hike will focus on trees.
Registration not required.
Join the Urban Park Rangers for a monthly discussion of a nature-themed book. This month’s book will be Inheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas. Please have the book read before the meeting! Registration not required. Program will be at Nature Center.
Mark your calendars and start propogating those cuttings, we are hosting our second ever plant swap! After the success of last month’s swap, we wanted to keep momentum going! Join us once again (or for the first time!) on Billings Lawn in Fort Tryon Park
Stop and chat with us about all things plant and community or just drop off and pick up the plants of your choosing! Swap plants, cuttings, supplies, and your best plant tips & tricks. We will be coming with cuttings, potting soil, and plastic pots (while supplies last) so even if you have nothing to swap yourself, feel free to stop by regardless! We’ll also have some starter plant supplies and plant related crafts if you’d like to stay a while and get your hands dirty. As much as this event is about growing our green families, it is also about growing our community!
