Maine Forest Climate Change Webinar & Field Tour Series: Pests & Pathogens
This topic session has moved from it's original May dates. Full series website March 6, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register for this webinar or entire series Restoration and sustainable forestry at GPMCT with Roger Greene, forest consultant to GPMCT. Beech management, forest defoliators, and disease threats with University of Maine Angela Mech…
Women’s Chainsaw Operation Workshop
Register March 16, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET Fleetwood, NC Join Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, the Forest Stewards Guild, and the Sustainable Development Teaching and Research Farm for a hands-on workshop all about chainsaw operating basics! This is a safe space to learn a new skill or deepen your existing saw knowledge. Our programming is…
Webinar Series: Climate-Smart Silviculture
Learn more and register for one or both remaining in the series Dates and topics are listed below. While climate-smart forestry is a hot topic in forestry today, there are many questions about what practicing climate-smart silviculture looks like. In this webinar series, participants will hear from some of the leading silviculturists, ecologists, and foresters…
Advancing Equitable Approaches to Climate Adaptation
March 19, 2024 9:00 a.m. EST University of Vermont, Aiken Center 103 Virtual via teams Preapproved for 1 continuing forestry education credit (1.0 category) Join Rachel H. Swanwick for her Master's Thesis Defense titled Advancing Equitable Approaches to Climate Adaptation: Exploring Barriers, Opportunities and Cross-Cultural Socio-Environmental Collaborations for Forest Stewardship across Tribal Nations and State…
SFQ Virtual Active Bystander Training
Register for Cohort 2 March 21, 2024 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Cohort 1 registration closed - session is full March 19, 2024 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time You only need to sign up for one cohort. Space is very limited so please only register if you know you can make the class…
Monetization of Ecosystem Services in Forestry – Duke Symposium
Register (by March 15 at 5 p.m.) Saturday, March 23, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (refreshments and check in start at 8 a.m.) Virtual or in-person attendance options are available In person sessions will be held at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, with lunch provided. SAF CFE credits are available. Full…
Tree Identification in Vermont
Register March 26, 2024 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time Champlain Valley Union High School, room 124 369 C V U Road, Hinesburg, VT Many people rely on leaves to identify a tree, making tree identification during "stick season" a daunting task. Join Chittenden County Forester and Guild member Ethan Tapper for a one-night course…
Guild Gathering (dinner) concurrent with New England SAF meeting
RSVP link ($20 covers event costs) Thursday, March 28, 2024 6:00 p.m. ET Halvorson’s Upstreet Cafe, 16 Church St., Burlington, VT. We know that many Guild members will be attending the New England SAF meeting in Burlington. Based on interest in a recent poll of members, we have reserved the Barn Bar space at Halvorson’s…
University of Alabama Student Chapter Guild Gathering
Cahaba River NWR. Photo By/Credit: Amelia Plemons/USFWS Register Date: March 30, 2024 Backup date in case of inclement weather: April 6, 2024 8:30 am - 4:30 pm CT We will paddle from the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge to Pratt’s Ferry. We will focus on the effects of forestry practices on the environmental health of…
Beyond the “Illusion of Preservation”
Register April 17, 2024 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET This webinar will host a panel discussion of the new report Beyond the “Illusion of Preservation” with three of the seven authors (two are also Guild members). The report addresses the imbalance of wood production and wood consumption in New England and encourages taking regional responsibility…