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April 2020
Webinar – Changing Hydrology. #5 in the Forest Adaptation Webinar Series
Forest Adaptation Webinar Series (#5) Changing Hydrology featuring John Campbell from US Forest Service Northern Research Station, and Erin Rodgers of Trout Unlimited. April 16, Noon - 1:00 p.m. ET Register now! NIACS and the Forest Stewards Guild have teamed up to offer a webinar series focused on forests and climate change adaptation. The series brings together scientists and managers to learn about and discuss emerging topics related to the effects of climate change on forest management, with a focus…
Find out more »Virtual Guild Gathering – questions and stories of adaptation and resilience
Members register today! Connecting our community: share your questions and your stories of effects, adaptation, and resilience. Webinar April 21, 2:00 - 3:00 pm CT The Covid-19 pandemic is a true crisis and is a time for our community to pull together and reinforce our connection. We are finding ways the Guild can help during this pandemic and one of the best is to start with our members. We are collecting emails from you that share the effects or “silver…
Find out more »Communicating with Landowners About Oak Forest Resiliency
Register today! Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time Presenter: Dr. Purnima Chawla Director, Center for Nonprofit Strategies Targeted Marketing Consultant, Sustaining Family Forests Initiative The Forest Stewards Guild is working with partners to increase oak forest resiliency in southern New England and elsewhere. To be successful, foresters and allied professionals need to be able to communicate with landowners in a way that speaks to their motivations and helps them take specific actions. As we practice social distancing,…
Find out more »Women’s Chainsaw Safety Fundamentals: A two-part, interactive webinar
Register today! Saturday, April 25 AND Saturday, May 2 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. ET each day $25 suggested donation for the pair of sessions, if you are currently able. Link to participate will be shared after registration and closer to the event date Event flyer to download We continue to adapt during our world's "new normal" for the time being. We are offering two, 2-hour virtual chainsaw safety workshops as optional supplements to the upcoming in-person workshop that has been rescheduled…
Find out more »Unlocking Carbon Markets for Family Forest Owners in the Pacific Northwest – webinar
Register today! Apr 28, 2020 2pm EDT / 11am PDT Carbon markets can provide new income streams to forest owners and may help keep forest as forest. The Pinchot Institute for Conservation and partners ran a NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program aimed at helping forest owners in the Pacific Northwest learn more about forest carbon sequestration and carbon market opportunities. The program also piloted the use of traditional Farm Bill funding to help develop carbon projects on small family forests.…
Find out more »May 2020
SCGIS Webinar: Lessons learned from the front lines of climate change
Register today May 7, 10 - 11 a.m. PT Presenter: Dr. Tosha Comendant, Conservation Science Manager, Pepperwood Description: This webinar will take you to the front lines of climate change and will highlight lessons learned, resilience strategies, and geospatial tools we are using at Pepperwood to adapt to changing conditions and respond to community needs. The Dwight Center for Conservation Science and the Pepperwood Preserve encompasses 3,117± acres, situated 8± miles northeast of Santa Rosa in the Southern Mayacamas Mountains, in Sonoma…
Find out more »Symposium on Climate Change in Maine’s Mountains – happenings and updates
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the Maine Mountain Collaborative is postponing the Symposium originally scheduled for May 14-15 in Rangeley, Maine to October 26-27, 2020. Although we are disappointed about the postponement of the Symposium, we are pleased to announce that the Editors of Northeastern Naturalist have approved a special issue to be published based on Symposium topics and presentations. We will move forward with the special issue despite the postponement; specifically, draft papers will be due to issue…
Find out more »Foresters for the Birds Training
Register today! Space is limited. Contact Christopher Riely at christopher@sweetbirchconsulting.com or (401) 225-6135. Agenda and flyer to download What? Foresters for the Birds is a Massachusetts DCR program providing cost‐share assistance to landowners to hire a qualified consulting forester to conduct a Bird Habitat Assessment on their land. The assessment will provide information about the existing or potential habitat for target bird species and silvicultural recommendations for enhancing habitat through forest management. To become certified to provide this service to…
Find out more »Loving the Land Through Working Forests Conference
Register today! Full conference information is available at the website linked above. The Foundation for Sustainable Forests invites you to attend this 9th annual event! A spotlight on Keynote Presenter Doug Tallamy's presentation, "Nature's Best Hope": Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such…
Find out more »Webinar – Forest Birds. #6 in the Forest Adaptation Webinar Series
Forest Adaptation Webinar Series (#6) Forest Birds featuring Steve Matthews of Ohio State University, and Tom Lautzenheiser from Mass Audubon. May 21, Noon - 1:00 p.m. ET Register now! NIACS and the Forest Stewards Guild have teamed up to offer a webinar series focused on forests and climate change adaptation. The series brings together scientists and managers to learn about and discuss emerging topics related to the effects of climate change on forest management, with a focus on forests in…
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