[Urban Forests]

Hey everyone, happy Bike to Work Day! Hope you all enjoyed your ride in, and if that ride took you through a local park or natural area, lucky for you!! Be safe out there. Shout out to the ever-amazing Green Seattle Partnership restoration project along the Burke Gilman Trail. Keep up the good work! Filed [...]

We in the European arboricultural and forestry world are as guilty of the disenfranchisement of people with their trees as anybody else. Places where there is little interference from the ‘state’, for good intention or more often not, can still … Continue reading →

Every night the noise of wildlife outside is enough to drown out a passing car, from the crickets and frogs in the background through to numerous birds seemingly in mid distance to the mumbling of large hedgehogs and scratching from … Continue reading →

Saima Wahab was born in Afghanistan but only lived there until she was six years old. By then, her father had been taken away by the KGB, so she and her family had to leave. They ended up in Pakistan, living with family, until she, her brother Khalid and her sister Najiba, in their teens, [...]

Non woodland trees (NWT) are finally starting to be much more widely noticed; daily news flow regarding trees in the landscape from across the UK highlights the growth of a much more positive perception of trees; and there is increasing … Continue reading →

The Green Cities Network wishes all of the mothers out there a happy Mother’s Day, and encourages everyone to honor your Mother Earth by getting outside on this beautiful weekend and volunteering to help her become even more beautiful. Find opportunities near you to get involved in Seattle, Tacoma, Kirkland, Redmond, and Kent. Have a [...]

We just heard from Project UP partners ACTrees that the second site has been selected to develop a new urban park, on the heels of their first collaboration last year in Indianapolis. Project UP, a partnership between ACTrees and the Boise ASPEN brand of recycled papers, works to “unlock the potential” of urban places by [...]

Timothy J. Lavallee | Destination Wake Forest Hugh Grant lends his voice in the latest animated film from the people who brought you Wallace & Gromit. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a story about a relatively tame and wildly unsuccessful pirate named Pirate Captain, and his crew who are equally inept. Every year the Pirate King who is dressed [...]

Students from Heritage High School in Wake Forest recently learned valuable life lessons about energy conservation through an AP Environmental Science project in which their local electric cooperative, Wake Electric, took on an unexpected role. Their teacher, Molly Bostic, assigned a personal home energy audit requiring students to monitor their electric usage for a 10 day-period [...]

LYNCHBURG, VA – Jesus Aguilar launched a pair of home runs, and Mike Rayl tossed six scoreless innings as the Carolina Mudcats blanked the Lynchburg Hillcats 3-0 in front of 3,704 on Thursday afternoon at Calvin Falwell Field. Aguilar extends his hitting streak to five games with a 2-for-4 showing. The first baseman has four [...]

Englands’ landscape heritage is at huge risk of disappearing due to a decline of those with the skills to maintain and build dry stone walls, hedgerows, wells, swales etc., which have also declined due to ill conceived modern land management … Continue reading →

The Friends of the Wake Forest Community Library are having their annual fund-raising book sale, and they are in need of volunteers starting this week. The Friends are seeking volunteers to help us set up, organize, assist during the sale and pack up unsold books for return to storage. They can use help on any [...]

Wake Forest residents are now free to water whenever they want. The Raleigh City Council voted on May 1 to end the lawn watering restrictions that have been in place since the 2007 drought, which saw Falls Lake – Raleigh’s main water source – dip to its lowest levels since the lake was created by [...]

LYNCHBURG, VA – The Carolina Mudcats and Lynchburg Hillcats completed their suspended game on Tuesday evening with the Mudcats winning 5-2. The Hillcats took the originally scheduled game, played in seven innings, 5-2 at night’s end. Carolina (11-13) left the field last night with a 4-1 lead over Lynchburg (14-9) when heavy fog reduced visibility [...]

The fact that the acronym of Not in My Back Yard has entered mainstream politics and the discussion of land management planning as a far too easy to use term of abuse is frankly bizarre. The not so subtle meaning … Continue reading →

High-school juniors Megan Izzo of Raleigh and Jeremy Boudah of Wake Forest have been selected by Wake Electric to attend an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. in June through the 2012 Rural Electric Youth Tour. Both students also won a $1,000 scholarship for college. Izzo, 16, is a student at Cardinal Gibbons High School and [...]

The Town of Wake Forest is currently accepting applications from area high school students who are interested in serving on the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) for the 2012-2013 school year. Applications are available in the town clerk’s office at town hall and on the Town’s website. Completed applications must be received no later than 5 [...]

On the 1 year anniversary of the day they met Tom and Violet get engaged. They don’t originally intend to have a super long engagement but life sometimes has other plans. That’s the premise of The Five-Year Engagement. The movie stars Jason Segel of How I Met Your Mother fame, and Emily Blunt who was in The Adjustment Bureau. This movie [...]

SALEM, VA – The Salem Red Sox once again raced to a big lead, and swept the three game series with the Carolina Mudcats at LewisGale Field on Sunday. Salem (12-9) won 8-3 in front of 2,106 for their fifth straight. The Mudcats fall to 10-12. Salem got a quality start from Keith Couch (3-1) [...]

SALEM, VA – The Salem Red Sox got a strong start from Ryan Pressly to beat the Carolina Mudcats 3-2 in front of 2,515 on Saturday night at Lewis Gale Field. The Red Sox (11-9) are winners of four straight, while Carolina drops to 10-11. [media-credit name="MiLB" align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit]Pressly (1-0), who entered tonight’s game giving [...]