Central Park faces unprecedented use, along with changing climatic conditions and an onslaught of severe weather events.
A daylong conference will be held in New York on October 5, 2012, titled Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide II - Stewardship of Central Park's Woodlands, that features stewards of some of the nation's leading urban forests including Michael Boland of the Presidio in San Francisco, Central Park's Chris Nolan, Prospect Park's Christian Zimmerman, NYBG's Todd Forrest, along with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Eric Sanderson, author of Mannahatta, and others.
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