$75,000 FROM THE NYS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT THE CONSERVANCY’S ASH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The City of Buffalo and the Olmsted Parks Conservancy will get some help in removing some of the large dead trees in the parks system that have fallen victim to the Emerald Ash Borer.
The NYSDEC Urban and Community Forestry Program has awarded a $75,000 grant to support the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s ongoing Ash Management Program.
The new Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy is an important step toward assuring its park’s potential, and the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) applauds the City and Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
NATIONAL SEARCHES HAVE RESULTED IN NONPROFIT EXECUTIVES COMING TO BUFFALO FOR POSITIONS AT COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WNY AND THE BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY.
Olmsted Parks hired Margaret Lapp as its first curator for the South Park Arboretum. Lapp holds a master’s in landscape architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and a master’s in public health from SUNY Upstate Medical University. Read More
