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People for Parks
Part One: Marielle Anzelone
Plans a PopUP Forest
By Sonia Myrick

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f you ever have the opportunity to talk to Urban Ecologist Marielle Anzelone, her passion for nature, particularly in the urban environment, quickly becomes evident. A tireless advocate for nature and rare plants in New
York City, Anzelone runs an organization called NYC Wildflower Week
that gets people connected to nature in the city. Why? Because, she says, " There's
value in having stakeholders in urban natural places. If we don't have stakeholders in these places, we end up losing them. " This desire to connect people with
nature is the inspiration for her audacious goal of bringing nature to people by
creating a PopUP Forest in one of New York City's iconic landmarks - Times
Square. Following is a snippet from part one of a two-part conversation Parks &
Recreation had with Anzelone about this project, a temporary exhibit that, if all
goes as planned, would be in place for spring 2017. To read part one of the conversation in its entirety, visit www.parksandrecreation.org/2016/January/PartOne-Marielle-Anzelone-Plans-a-PopUP-Forest-ini-Times-Square.
Parks & Recreation magazine: Why
do you feel public parks and/or
spaces like this are important?
Marielle Anzelone: To me, they're
just important and it seems obvious.
I guess they're important to people
for different reasons. Different people
bring different values sets to them. I

think natural areas are important, personally, because my background is in
conservation biology. I was trained as
a botanist, so I'm concerned with the
rare plants of New York City, and we
do have them. We have a lot of plants
that grow wild. In some ways people
have lost a sense of what nature is and

An artist's rendering of Marielle Anzelone's PopUP Forest that would be
installed in Times Square.

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that nature can exist in cities. It's not
this mind-blowing concept...it's actually kind of obvious. New York City
was all nature at some point in time
and not all of it has been lost to development. Pockets of that nature have
existed for thousands of years, but
will they continue to exist? Well, that's
where people come in. So, as much as
people have been the driving force for
demolishing this nature people are
now critical to its survival. I want to
connect people to nature. Nature is
good for people for lots of reasons,
not the least of which is that there is
this emerging body of research that
shows it's important physically, physiologically, psychologically. People
have biochemical reactions to being in
nature. It's just something that we take
for granted and some people who I've
known through the years feel like [nature is] this thing that's far from here,



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