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SUMMARY:Webinar - Carbon Storage at the Building Scale - Univ. of WA
DESCRIPTION:Register today! \nForest Climate Working Group Learning Exchange Series \nMay 6\, Noon PT\, 1:oo p.m MT\, 2:00 CT\, 3:00 ET \nSimilar to standing trees in the forests\, wood products play an important role in enhancing the global sequestered carbon pool\, by retaining the atmospheric carbon in a sequestered form for the duration of the functional life of the wood products. Dr. Indroneil Ganguly will explain the how we have used temporal radiative forcing analysis along with the functional half-life of different wood products to evaluate the impacts of wood products on global warming\, including carbon storage and life cycle greenhouse gas production/extraction emissions. He will also discuss how the model can be applied at a landscape level (WA State) and to innovative products like Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). \n 
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/webinar-carbon-storage-at-the-building-scale-univ-of-wa/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20200507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20200507T110000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
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SUMMARY:SCGIS Webinar: Lessons learned from the front lines of climate change
DESCRIPTION:Register today \nMay 7\, 10 – 11 a.m. PT \nPresenter: Dr. Tosha Comendant\, Conservation Science Manager\, Pepperwood \nDescription: 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 County. The Center serves as a climate-ecosystem field station for California’s Coast Ranges and as a conduit of science-based information sharing and collaboration across disciplines and between scientists and land and water managers. During our first decade as an organization\, our community experienced a historic multi-year drought\, flooding\, and catastrophic wildfires. The 2017 Tubbs Fire burned down Pepperwood’s housing\, barn and equipment\, disrupted our community education program and destroyed the majority of our environmental sensors and communication network. In October of 2019\, the Kincade Fire burned 60% of the preserve and necessitated 15 miles of bulldozer lines to stop the spread of the fire into more populated  areas.Conservation Science Manager\, Dr. Tosha Comendant\, will share how Pepperwood has pulled together as an organization to inform resilience strategies at scales ranging from the parcel\, to watersheds\, to the region as a whole. \nCBI presents this webinar in partnership with the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS). To learn more about this organization\, please visit https://www.scgis.org/.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/scgis-webinar-lessons-learned-from-the-front-lines-of-climate-change/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200514T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
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SUMMARY:Career Call - webinar
DESCRIPTION:Call recording \nSupplemental call notes with webinar time bookmarks \nThursday\, May 14\n1:00 p.m. PT\, 2:00 MT\, 3:00 CT\, 4:00 ET \nStudents\, if you haven’t already\, please renew your membership or consider joining the Guild\, if you are still in school or within a year of graduation and still looking for work. Student membership is free. \nWe invite student members and friends to join Affiliate and Professional Guild members for a virtual Guild Gathering focused specifically on career information! If you have questions\, please bring them to this forum. Guild members might have an answer\, idea\, or resources to share. And\, you’ll likely hear about what other students are grappling with right now too. \nStudents: If you know you have a career question you want to ask\, include it in your registration or email it to colleen@forestguild.org and it might be a prompting question to kick things off! \nOther members: In your registration\, please let us know your profession and any areas of expertise you have that may relate to this discussion. \nThis webinar will be recorded. Please join us!
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/career-call-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Guild Gathering,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200515T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200514T032124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T033354Z
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SUMMARY:Confronting Changing Winters in the Northeast and Maine (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Full webinar title: Confronting Changing Winters in the Northeast and Maine; and an update on Special Issue of Northeastern Naturalist–Climate change in Maine’s Mountains \nRegister today! (After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar)\nMay 15\, 2020\n1:00 p.m. ET \nThis webinar is hosted by the Maine Mountain Collaborative as part of a series of webinars leading up to their Symposium in autumn. \nMay 15 Webinar Speaker bio: Dr. Sarah Nelson (Director of Research @Appalachian Mountain Club). “My research focuses on understanding the effects of atmospheric pollution and climate change on forests\, foodwebs\, and freshwaters in remote and protected ecosystems. Current research includes acid-base and carbon chemistry in lakes\, climate change with a focus on changing winters\, and mercury biogeochemistry\, using approaches including long-term monitoring\, bio-sentinels\, and citizen science.”
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/confronting-changing-winters-in-the-northeast-and-maine/
CATEGORIES:Northeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200518T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200506T205601Z
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Habitat Management at the Catamount Community Forest\, Vermont
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 18\n7:00 – 8:30 p.m. ET \nJoin the Chittenden County Forester\, the US Fish and Wildlife Service\, Audubon Vermont\, the Vermont Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and the Catamount Community Forest Committee for a presentation on wildlife habitat management at the Catamount Community Forest in Williston. \nThe Catamount Community Forest (CCF) is a 393-acre conserved property owned by the Town of Williston. A Forest Management Plan was drafted for the CCF in early 2020 by the Chittenden County Forester which details forest management work scheduled to occur over the next 10 years. Among the activities planned at the CCF are some exciting wildlife habitat management activities to create unique wildlife habitat for declining wildlife and bird species\, specifically encouraging shrubland and young forest habitat. This management will occur in partnership with Audubon Vermont\, the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Vermont Fish and Wildlife. \nJoin us to learn more about supporting healthy bird and wildlife habitat in Vermont and the work planned at the CCF. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nDial in: 1-646-558-8656\nMeeting ID: 868 8040 7884
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/wildlife-habitat-management-at-the-catamount-community-forest-vermont/
CATEGORIES:Northeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200519T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200519T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Forestry in Bottomland Hardwoods - webinar
DESCRIPTION:Register today! \nMay 19\, 2020\n12:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET \nAgenda to download \nThis webinar qualifies for 1.0 SAF Category 1 CFE credit. \nWe welcome forest landowners\, natural resources professionals\, and others to join us for a virtual workshop in wildlife forestry practices in bottomland hardwood forests of the Southeast. We’ll cover topics such as bottomland hardwood management\, hydrology and water issues\, timber stand improvement\, and how to manage your forestland to improve wildlife habitat. \nBottomland hardwood forests are critically important to biodiversity\, wildlife\, carbon storage\, recreation\, and clean water in the southeastern United States. Unfortunately\, bottomland hardwood forests are threatened by several factors. Wildlife forestry management practices can benefit these ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them. \nJoin us in learning from two experts on how to manage bottomland hardwood forests of the Southeast using wildlife forestry practices! \nPresenter bios: \nDr. Lockhart has always been passionate about hardwood silviculture\, particularly in bottomland hardwoods. He has been a professor at both the School of Forest Resources at University of Arkansas and the School of Renewable Resources at Louisiana State University. Most recently\, he was a research forester for 16 years at the Center for Bottomland Hardwood Research in Stoneville\, Mississippi. \nMr. Duck Locascio received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Forest Management from Louisiana State University and a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Wildlife Management from Louisiana State University. He has managed forest resources on LDWF WMAs within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley for the last 23 years and currently serves as Program Manager of the LDWF Forestry Section supervising all forest management activities on State-owned Wildlife Management Areas.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/wildlife-forestry-in-bottomland-hardwoods-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Southeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200519T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
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SUMMARY:Know Your Trees (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register \nMay 19\, 7 – 8:30 p.m. ET \nHosted by Vermont Woodlands Association\, Michael Wojtech\, author of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast will discuss his book and share information on how to identify the trees around us. \nAs a freelance naturalist\, writer\, photographer\, illustrator and educator\, Michael strives to share the science and beauty of natural history in an accessible and compelling fashion through presentations\, participatory activities\, and outdoor exploration. He writes and teaches about the structure\, growth processes\, and ecology of trees-including their bark\, buds\, leaves\, roots\, and wood-for audiences at all levels of experience\, and explores how knowing the natural history of the places we live and love fosters connection and the feeling of home. \nMichael earned his masters degree in Conservation Biology from Antioch University New England in Keene\, NH. He is the author of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast and co-author of Drawing Leaves and Trees: Observing and Sketching the Natural World. His article “The Language of Trees: On a Walk with Rutherford Platt” was recently published in American Forests.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/know-your-trees-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Northeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200520T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200520T100000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200518T231641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T231641Z
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SUMMARY:Land and Wildlife – Changes Over Time (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register (After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.) \nWednesday\, May 20\n9:00am – 10:00am ET \nJoin VT Coverts as we host Kim Royar\, a wildlife biologist with VT Department of Fish and Wildlife to share how land use has affected the occurrence and distribution of wildlife.  This engaging program will review the fascinating\, and sometimes devastating influence humans and land use change have had on wildlife populations such as beaver\, otter\, bobcat\, and coyote.\nRegister in advance for this meeting: \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/land-and-wildlife-changes-over-time-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200521T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200327T213013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T215058Z
UID:3304-1590062400-1590066000@foreststewardsguild.org
SUMMARY:Webinar - Forest Birds. #6 in the Forest Adaptation Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:Forest Adaptation Webinar Series (#6) \nForest Birds\nfeaturing Steve Matthews of Ohio State University\, and Tom Lautzenheiser from Mass Audubon.\nMay 21\, Noon – 1:00 p.m. ET \nRegister now! \nNIACS 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 New England and New York. \nEach session first explores the latest scientific information from someone actively researching the issue\, followed by an example of a real-world management project. \nFlyer of webinars in the series for download \nFor more information on the entire webinar series in one place\, visit NIACS’s webinar series page.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/webinar-forest-birds-6-in-the-forest-adaptation-webinar-series/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200521T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
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SUMMARY:Using the Wildfire Risk to Communities Website (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register for the webinar  \nMay 21\, 2020\n11:00 a.m. PT\, Noon MT\, 1:00 p.m. CT\, 2:00 ET \nPresenters: Greg Dillon\, Frank Fay\, Jim Menakis\, Kelly Pohl\, Joe Scott \nSee a demonstration of the new Wildfire Risk to Communities website\, including use of the interactive maps\, charts\, and resources available for every community\, county\, and state in the U.S. Learn how the website and downloadable resources can help community leaders such as elected officials\, community planners\, and fire managers prioritize actions to mitigate risk.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/using-the-wildfire-risk-to-communities-website-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200526T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200526T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200429T231445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200529T003848Z
UID:3497-1590501600-1590505200@foreststewardsguild.org
SUMMARY:Ecological Forestry in Mountain Coves of the Appalachian Region - webinar
DESCRIPTION:Recording of the webinar is here \nMay 26\, 2020\n2: 00 -3:00 pm ET \nThis webinar qualifies for .5 SAF Category 1 CFE credit. \nThis webinar precedes a field workshop scheduled for August on the same topic. Register for one or both of these events! \nWelcome foresters\, land managers\, natural resource professionals\, and private forest landowners to this webinar about management and conservation of mountain cove forests in the Appalachian region. \nIn this webinar\, we will learn about ways and opportunities to improve forest operations to protect water quality and limit the spread of invasive species in mountain coves.  We will discuss management approaches that work towards minimizing the threats to these sensitive sites in the southeast and northeast. \nBackground: Mesophytic cove sites in the Appalachians and associated physiographic regions represent unique opportunities for maintaining\, improving\, or re-establishing biodiversity that was present prior to anthropogenic disturbance. Many sites also have historical uses that require attention in sustainable management planning. These attributes along with the highly dissected topography\, hydrologic complexity\, and restricted access impose significant issues to forest operations. Because these sites are highly productive\, there can be pressure to harvest and impose timber objectives in these sensitive areas. These attributes make management challenging\, and comprehensive and detailed planning is required to ensure operations maintain critical mesophytic attributes and meet management objectives. \nPresenter Bio: Presentations and discussion will be led by the University of Kentucky’s expert in hardwood silviculture\, Dr. Jeffrey Stringer. Dr. Stringer has been actively engaged in upland hardwood silviculture and forest operations research and continuing education for the last 35 years. He has served on several national Forest Stewardship Council\, FM and Controlled Wood working groups\, and is currently operational director of the Center for Forest and Wood Certification\, providing solutions for certification issues in the eastern U.S.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/ecological-forestry-in-mountain-coves-of-the-appalachian-region-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Southeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200527T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200527T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200508T195557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T200115Z
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SUMMARY:LANDFIRE Remap in the North Central United States (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Connect to this webinar\nMay 27\, 2020.\n8:00 a.m. PT\, 9:00 MT\, 10:00 CT\, 11:00 ET \nPresenters: Randy Swaty\, Ecologist\, & Jim Smith\, Ph.D.\, TNC LF Program Lead \nThis webinar\, presented by TNC-LF’s Randy Swaty\, ecologist\, and Jim Smith\, LF program lead\, will inform participants about the new LF Remap products\, what has changed from previous product offerings\, and what remains the same or has been updated. We will offer application examples taken from the North Central GeoArea\, and will save time to answer questions and listen to comments at the webinar’s conclusion. The presentation is directed to those who are or might be considering using LF products to inform fire and vegetation management decisions\, e.g. researchers\, land and project managers\, fire and fuel professionals\, GIS specialists\, scientists\, and students. \nSponsors: Great Plains Fire Science Exchange\, Lake States Fire Science Consortium\, and Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/landfire-remap-in-the-north-central-united-states-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200528T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200528T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200507T001248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T001248Z
UID:3529-1590670800-1590674400@foreststewardsguild.org
SUMMARY:Woodland Owner Lunch and Learn - Managing Your Woodlands with Prescribed Fire
DESCRIPTION:May 28\, 2020.\n10:00 a.m. PT\, 11:00 a.m. MT\, Noon\, CT\, 1:00 pm ET\nSponsored by: North Carolina State Extension Forestry \nFull event website \nApproximately 30 minutes before this webinar’s start time\, the ‘Join’ button will be activated on the event webpage. Once the ‘Join’ button is available\, you may click the ‘Join’ button and begin the registration process. Please arrive 30 minutes prior the event start time\, as participation is limited to the first 500 people to join. \nSummary: \nPrescribed fire is used as a forest management tool for wildfire risk reduction\, wildlife management\, and many other purposes. The presenters will address considerations related to prescribed burning such as benefits and uses\, liability and risk\, and technical and financial assistance. This information will be most useful for landowners who are considering or are currently using prescribed fire on their land. Training resources available to landowners will also be discussed.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/woodland-owner-lunch-and-learn-managing-your-woodlands-with-prescribed-fire/
CATEGORIES:Northeast,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200528T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200528T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T015140
CREATED:20200508T195107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T200252Z
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SUMMARY:Data\, Science\, and Methods behind the Wildfire Risk to Communities Website (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register for this webinar \nMay 28\, 2020.\n11:00 a.m. PT\, Noon MT\, 1:00 p.m. CT\, 2:00 ET \nPresenters: Greg Dillon\, Frank Fay\, Jim Menakis\, Kelly Pohl\, Joe Scott \nLearn about the science and data used to calculate and map wildfire risk nationwide in the new Wildfire Risk to Communities website. Hear from the project’s technical lead about the use of LANDFIRE and other input datasets\, the methods for modeling and mapping wildfire risk\, and the data products available through the website. See a demonstration of the website and how to download geospatial and tabular data.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/data-science-and-methods-behind-the-wildfire-risk-to-communities-website-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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