Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Annual Workshop
2019-12-17 07:30 - 2019-12-18 16:00 UTC | Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104
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Hosted by the USDA Forest Service Region 3, the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFRP) Annual Workshop brings together CFRP grant recipients, their partners and other stakeholders to share their experiences and discuss accomplishments, challenges, and strategies to overcome barriers to the implementation of collaborative forest restoration projects. The workshop also provides an opportunity to explore ideas for future CFRP projects. CFRP grants can be used for forest restoration and small diameter tree utilization projects on or on any combination of federal, tribal, state, county and municipal and land grant lands in New Mexico. To be eligible, grant applicants must use a collaborative process that includes a diverse and balanced group of stakeholders and appropriate government representatives to design, implement and monitor their project.
The 2020 CFRP Request for Applications and the agenda for the December 17-18, 2019 Annual Workshop will be posted on the CFRP website in mid-November at http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r3/cfrp.
Lodging – room block reservations expire on November 18, 2019
Rooms have been set aside on December 16th and 17th, 2019 at the rate of $96.00 plus taxes per night (single/double occupancy) at Hotel Albuquerque 1-866-505-7829. To receive the group rate, guests must state that they would like to be placed within the “US Forest Service” block of rooms, or they may refer to the Block Code 1912USFS. Below is a link for online bookings. The link may be used over the actual room block dates only and the date of arrival and departure should be selected.
USFS 1912USFS
Please note the reservation cut-off date will be: November 18, 2019. After this date, any remaining rooms within the block will be released into the hotel’s general inventory.
For more information on the 2020 Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Annual Workshop, please contact Ian Fox at 505-842-3425.

Assisted Migration webinar
2020-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Forest Adaptation Webinar Series (#2)
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Flyer of webinars in the series for download
NIACS and the Forest Stewards Guild are teaming up to offer a new webinar series focused on forests and climate change adaptation. The series will bring 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.
Each session will first explore the latest scientific information from someone actively researching the issue, followed by an example of a real-world management project.
The second in the series is Assisted Migration and features Tony D’Amato, University of Vermont and Kevin Evans, Dartmouth College.
For more information on the entire webinar series in one place, visit NIACS’s webinar series page.

Third Sandy Mush Forest Restoration Coalition meeting and FIRST Restoration Gathering
2020-01-25 09:00 - 15:15 UTC | Sandy Mush Community Center, 19 School Road, Leicester, NC, 28748
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Agenda to download
The Forest Stewards Guild is partnering with EcoForesters and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) on a project in Sandy Mush to increase capacity for forest restoration activities. One particular focus of the project is increasing landowner access to resources for invasive plant control. As part of these efforts, we’ve created a community coalition to increase the communication, coordination, and success of forest restoration activities in Sandy Mush. Community members are directly involved as key members of the Coalition, to share stories about managing invasive species in their woods and help identify the best way to move forward with a plan of action.
The Coalition meetings
Even if you missed the first two meetings, the Coalition meetings are open to the public, and anyone who is interested in the topic of forest health in Sandy Mush is encouraged to attend.
At our first meeting in August, we worked with community members and stakeholders to shape the vision of the Coalition, define conservation goals in the community, and provide input on invasive plant prioritization mapping. At our second meeting in October, we we further established a Mission & Vision Statement, heard briefly about controlling invasive plants on your land, possible ways to receive funding through EQIP, and identified potential threats to our target goals.
The Restoration Gathering on January 25th will include educational sessions on forest stewardship and hands-on learning opportunities with local organizations such as the Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District and MountainTrue.
Thank you to our partners at Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy for the photos in this meeting announcement. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership.

Strategies for increasing prescribed fire application on federal lands
2020-01-27 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
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Prescribed fire is an important management tool on federal lands that is not being applied at the necessary or desired levels. Since 2017, we have been investigating policy barriers and opportunities for increasing prescribed fire application on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in the Western United States. In the first phase of our work, we found that lack of adequate capacity and funding were the most commonly cited barriers to increasing application of prescribed fire, and that successful approaches rely on collaborative forums and positions that allow for communication, problem-solving, and resource sharing among federal and state partners. In 2019, we completed case studies of locations using unique strategies to increase application of prescribed fire in complex land management contexts. In this talk, we will report on the primary themes from these case studies, highlighting specific examples of practice from different Forest Service and BLM units.
CFE Credits: 1.0 Cat 1

Webinar: Dead Wood and Forest Management
2020-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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Dr. Zander Evans will presented a summary of ten years of the Forest Stewards Guild’s scientific work and management guidance on dead wood (snags, large downed logs, coarse woody material, fine woody material) from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast. Dr. Evans described the habitat, soil, carbon, and other benefits of dead wood. He touched on guidance for retention of dead wood in a range of ecosystems. The second half was a facilitated discussion with participants about how to include dead wood in forest management operations.
Reference publications include:

Evans, A. M. (2016). Potential ecological consequences of forest biomass harvesting in California. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 35(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2015.1104254
Evans, A. M., Perschel, R. T., & Kittler, B. A. (2012). Overview of forest biomass harvesting guidelines. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 32(1–2), 89–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2011.651786
Evans, A. M., & Ducey, M. J. (2010). Carbon accounting and management of lying dead wood. Los Angeles, CA: Climate Action Reserve. Retrieved from http://www.climateactionreserve.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Carbon_Accounting_and_Management_of_Lying_Dead_Wood-Forest_White_Paper.pdf
Evans, A. M. (2011). Ecology of dead wood in the Southeast. Santa Fe, NM: Forest Guild. Retrieved from http://www.forestguild.org/publications/research/2011/ecology_of_dead_wood_SE.pdf

Webinar - Lyme disease ecology
2020-02-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Webinar – Lyme disease ecology: Working to understand Lyme ecology in a newly emerging hot spot & implications for beyond
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Join us for a webinar by Dr. Elizabeth Gleim of Hollins University in Virginia investigating the ins and outs of the lyme’s disease front and how fire may play a role. This webinar is co-sponsored by our sister exchange, The Consortium for Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists (CAFMS).

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Monitoring - Working Woodlands Workshop
2020-02-08 09:00 - 12:00 (Asia/Karachi) | Forest Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, VT
Please pre-register today! To register or learn more call (802) 457-3368 x 226, or use the e-mail/contact us button on the event page. Be sure to tell us how many are coming.
Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is a destructive invasive insect that has already been detected in southern Vermont, including Windsor County. Join us for this 3 hour workshop to learn how to identify HWA-infested hemlocks and what landowners can do to detect and slow the spread of this insect pest. Jim Esden, forester with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, will begin the workshop with an indoor discussion, and then head outdoors to use state-wide surveying protocol to monitor the park’s hemlocks. All ages are welcome!
Please dress appropriately for outdoor activity, and bring a water bottle, snack and snowshoes if possible. Adult and children’s snowshoes are available if needed. Event will continue snow or shine! Co-sponsored by Vermont Coverts and the Vermont Woodlands Association.
This event is eligible for CFE credits from the Society of American Foresters and has been assigned 2.5 Category 1 credits.

Science and Practice Forum
2020-02-12 09:00 - 15:00 UTC | Wells Conference Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
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Hosts: Center for Research on Sustainable Forests and the Forest Stewards Guild
A Forest Climate Change Initiative event
Price: $0 (lunch included)
Continuing education credits are pending…more info soon.
Flyer to download
Summary:
Join us for a day of learning and discussion as we aim to identify the priority needs of researchers, foresters, and other natural resource professionals.
Our forests are at risk. As foresters and natural resource professionals, we are on the front lines of climate change. How do we decide what actions to take in order to make our forests more resilient? Join University of Maine’s Forest Climate Change Initiative (FCCI) for an interactive Science & Practice Forum to catalyze scientist-manager discussions about current research and stakeholder needs, grow Maine’s forest climate adaptation community of practice, and provide useful information for the work of the Maine Climate Council. Themes of the day include forest ecology, operations, and socioeconomics as well as communicating with landowners and the public about climate change.

Oak Resiliency in Southern New England
2020-02-13 08:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Karachi) | Tolland Agricultural Center, 24 Hyde Avenue Route 30, Vernon, CT, 06066
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To register: RSVP to Jeff Ward at: Jeffrey.Ward@ct.gov. Check or cash payment accepted in advance or at the door. Please make checks out to “Yankee Division – SAF.” Mail checks to: Jeff Ward, CAES, PO Box 1106, New Haven, CT 06504
Event flyer and agenda for download.
Co-hosted by The Yankee Division of the Society of American Foresters and the Forest Stewards Guild.
This event has been approved for 2.0 CT Forest Practitioner CEUs. SAF CEUs are pending.
Summary topics of the agenda:

Defining resiliency
Factors that affect resiliency
Assessment tools
Defining success
Solutions
Messaging for landowners

The Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State 2020 conference
2020-02-26 08:00 - 2020-02-27 17:00 UTC | LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
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Location: LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Price: $150 early bird (deadline February 18)
Full details and conference website
Event flyer for download
Summary: The Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State 2020 conference is a biennial conference and scientific update that brings together researchers and members of the forestry community. Participants will learn about the current condition of Oregon’s forests, forest health trends and challenges, current research, and silvicultural solutions. Geared to foresters, forest managers, woodland owners, students, policymakers, and others with an interest in forest health, the conference will provide a blend of current information and practical applications.
Participants will hear from speakers about rends in tree mortality related to drought, weather, and climate; how insects and disease are affecting forests in Oregon; and connections between biodiversity and forest health. Sessions will also address topics on collaboratives and partnerships, silviculture and forest operations, and fire.

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Workshop
2020-03-02 13:00 - 2020-03-04 12:00 (America/Sao_Paulo) | Hotel Andaluz, 125 2nd St NW, NM, 87102
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Draft agenda for download
Full event website
Convened by the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI), we invite partners to share lessons learned from experience engaging in local, regional, and national collaborative forest restoration processes on federal and non-federal forest landscapes. The workshop will bring together land managers, researchers, and their stakeholders to develop strategies that facilitate the application of evidence based collaborative forest landscape management in the Intermountain West.
Our workshop goal is that participants learn techniques for applying relevant strategies, science, and tools to implement evidence based landscape scale management across the Intermountain West. Cross-project coordination between the USDA Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and forestry collaborative groups working in non-CFLRP landscapes will serve as a guiding foundation for workshop learning. The agenda will focus on assessing challenges and progress made in the ten years since the CFLR program began to advance the next ten years of all-lands collaborative forest landscape restoration.
Agenda highlights:

Lessons learned shared by diverse stakeholders
Applying science tools to inform forest management
Poster session, networking and fun!
Special guest Chief Vicki Christiansen will be attending

Webinar - incorporating bird needs into piñon-juniper woodland management
2020-03-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)
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NM Avian Conservation Partners is offering a webinar regarding incorporating bird needs into piñon-juniper woodland management.
The webinar will discuss actions that may help minimize negative impacts on numerous woodland bird species, including the following high priority species: Pinyon Jay, Juniper Titmouse, Gray Vireo, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Virginia’s Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, and Black-chinned Sparrow.

Webinar - Keeping Forest as Forest
2020-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
A webinar on conversion, fragmentation, and conservation
Thursday, March 26, 11:00 a.m. – Noon MT
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In this hour-long webinar for Forest Stewards Guild members and partners we will discuss why and how to keep forest as forest and the negative effects of conversion to other land uses. By 2060 we are likely to lose 1 to 1.4 million acres of rural land per year to development and lose 24 to 38 million acres of forest. When forests are converted to agriculture, homes, offices, roads, or other development, we lose all the benefits the forest provided. Even when a forest is fragmented into smaller patches critical wildlife habitat is lost and ecosystem processes are disrupted. Keeping forest as forest helps protect the clean air, fresh water, carbon storage, economic opportunity, wildlife habitat, and all the other services forests provide. Development pressure, costs of ownership, difficulties with inter-generational land transfers, and other issues can all conspire to push some of the 11.5 million family forest owners to sell some of the 290 million acres of the nation’s forests they control.

Creative landowner outreach programs such as Women Owning Woodlands and ways of monetizing the services that forests provide such as carbon markets, provide opportunities to help keep forest as forest.
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The Guild recognizes many people are dealing with the direct impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. For those stuck at home we are working to increase our distance learning opportunities. Please let us know if there are topics you’re interested in adding to our distance learning series.

DuPont State Recreational Forest Learn-and-Burn (cancelled)
2020-03-28 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | High Falls Picnic Area, 89 Buck Forest Road, Cedar Mountain, NC, 28718, United States
This event has been cancelled.
More information to come about next steps soon!
Date: Saturday March 28
Back up date: April 4
Please keep both dates available in case of inclement weather!
Agenda to download
View the event map. We will be using the High Falls Loop Trail for our outdoor session.
We welcome forest landowners and community members in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains to join us for an educational workshop and technical training in how controlled burns can help restore habitat for native species.
In this workshop we will observe a controlled burn in action, learn about shortleaf pine restoration and the wildlife habitat benefits of controlled burns. We will start the discussion about what it takes to burn your own land.

Webinar - Changing Hydrology. #5 in the Forest Adaptation Webinar Series
2020-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax)
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
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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 New England and New York.
Each session first explores the latest scientific information from someone actively researching the issue, followed by an example of a real-world management project.
Flyer of webinars in the series for download
For more information on the entire webinar series in one place, visit NIACS’s webinar series page.

Virtual Guild Gathering - questions and stories of adaptation and resilience
2020-04-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
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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 linings” of the pandemic that you discovered. We’ll share adaptations you’ve made to continue your work, where possible. And we’ll share the ways you are building resilience personally or in your community.
After receiving the emails, this webinar is one way we will come together to share more discussion. We’ll have some guided questions and a process for participation on this webinar. The intent though, is for you to offer an ear or a voice in our community to help others learn, think about things in new ways, find resources, and feel hopeful and supported. The Guild community is great at this!!! We can pull it off online!!!
We’ll share more info about the webinar soon. For now:
Potential topics
We’re interested in:

Ways consulting foresters are adapting to social distancing,
Approaches to connecting with landowners during a pandemic,
Signs that Covid-19 may be forcing land sales,
Safe approaches to working in the woods during a pandemic,
Ways you’re preparing for fire season,
Other things you are doing to respond.

Potential format
We’re investigating:

Regional follow-up webinars and conference calls to keep the connection strong in the coming weeks,
A place to collect resources to share with everyone…probably on our website.

Tips for logging into Zoom
After you register, and again the day before the webinar, you will receive an email with a link to join the meeting online, where you’ll be able to see each other and any materials we share. You’ll also receive a phone number if you wish to call in instead. If you join online, you can either use your computer/headphones audio or use your phone for audio if you also call in.
If you wish, you may join the zoom webinar up to 10 minutes early to troubleshoot or get oriented. We’ll be there to help. If you’ve never used zoom before, you may need to download the application before you login with the link.

Communicating with Landowners About Oak Forest Resiliency
2020-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax)
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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, this webinar will provide an opportunity to brush up on our skills before we return to the field and in-person meetings. We will discuss targeted messaging and ways to communicate with different types of landowners about the values their woods provide and the potential benefits of active management.
This event was part of a larger project funded by the USDA Forest Service on Increasing Resiliency in Southern New England’s Oak Forests.
National SAF CEUs pending. This event has been approved for 1 CEU for Connecticut and Massachusetts Licensed Foresters.

Unlocking Carbon Markets for Family Forest Owners in the Pacific Northwest - webinar
2020-04-28 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax)
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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.
Josh Fain will discuss lessons learned from the program during this hour long webinar. Through the program, landowners had the opportunity to receive financial and technical assistance designed to help overcome transaction costs and related barriers that have prevented family forest owners from participating in carbon markets. This assistance was incorporated into stewardship planning and the adoption of conservation practices designed to improve forest health, generate income, and maintain their family’s forestland legacy.

Southwest Fire Season 2019 Overview and 2020 Outlook
2020-04-29 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
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April 29, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. MT
The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2020. Dr. Zander Evans presented an overview of the largest fires in the Southwest during 2019. He will share summaries of forest types and burn severity for each of the fires. In addition, Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist with the Southwest Coordination Center, discussed the fire season outlook for 2020 in the Southwest.

Webinar - Carbon Storage at the Building Scale - Univ. of WA
2020-05-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax)
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Forest Climate Working Group Learning Exchange Series
May 6, Noon PT, 1:oo p.m MT, 2:00 CT, 3:00 ET
Similar 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).

SCGIS Webinar: Lessons learned from the front lines of climate change
2020-05-07 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver)
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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 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.
CBI presents this webinar in partnership with the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS). To learn more about this organization, please visit https://www.scgis.org/.

Career Call - webinar
2020-05-14 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Halifax)
Call recording
Supplemental call notes with webinar time bookmarks
Thursday, May 14
1:00 p.m. PT, 2:00 MT, 3:00 CT, 4:00 ET
Students, 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.
We 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.
Students: 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!
Other members: In your registration, please let us know your profession and any areas of expertise you have that may relate to this discussion.
This webinar will be recorded. Please join us!

Foresters for the Birds Training
2020-05-15 08:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Belchertown Town Hall, 1 Main Street, Belchertown, Massachusetts, 01007
Postponed
Please stay tuned, as this event will be rescheduled for a later date when it is safe to gather.
Original 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 landowners, consulting foresters must attend this training and then conduct two assessments under the review of Mass Audubon and DCR.
Foresters will also become qualified to develop forest management plans with bird habitat assessments for landowners receiving USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service funding through the Southern New England Heritage Forest RCPP in south‐central Massachusetts.
Who? The training is intended for those who have not yet attended a Foresters for the Birds training, those who would like extra support, and those who are simply interested or have questions.
Logistics: This training will include indoor presentations and a site visit to the neighboring Town of Pelham’s Buffam Brook Community Forest (10 miles away) to view different bird habitats.
This event has been approved for 4.0 MA Forester License CFE credits.
More info at: Christopher Riely at christopher@sweetbirchconsulting.com or (401) 225-6135.

Confronting Changing Winters in the Northeast and Maine (webinar)
2020-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Halifax)
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
Register today! (After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar)
May 15, 2020
1:00 p.m. ET
This webinar is hosted by the Maine Mountain Collaborative as part of a series of webinars leading up to their Symposium in autumn.
May 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.”

Wildlife Habitat Management at the Catamount Community Forest, Vermont
2020-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax)
Monday, May 18
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. ET
Join 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.
The 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.
Join us to learn more about supporting healthy bird and wildlife habitat in Vermont and the work planned at the CCF.
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Dial in: 1-646-558-8656
Meeting ID: 868 8040 7884

Wildlife Forestry in Bottomland Hardwoods - webinar
2020-05-19 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Halifax)
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May 19, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Agenda to download
This webinar qualifies for 1.0 SAF Category 1 CFE credit.
We 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.
Bottomland 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.
Join us in learning from two experts on how to manage bottomland hardwood forests of the Southeast using wildlife forestry practices!
Presenter bios:
Dr. 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.
Mr. 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.

Know Your Trees (webinar)
2020-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax)
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May 19, 7 – 8:30 p.m. ET
Hosted 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.
As 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.
Michael 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.

Land and Wildlife – Changes Over Time (webinar)
2020-05-20 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Halifax)
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Wednesday, May 20
9:00am – 10:00am ET
Join 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.
Register in advance for this meeting:
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Webinar - Forest Birds. #6 in the Forest Adaptation Webinar Series
2020-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax)
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
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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 New England and New York.
Each session first explores the latest scientific information from someone actively researching the issue, followed by an example of a real-world management project.
Flyer of webinars in the series for download
For more information on the entire webinar series in one place, visit NIACS’s webinar series page.

Using the Wildfire Risk to Communities Website (webinar)
2020-05-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax)
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May 21, 2020
11:00 a.m. PT, Noon MT, 1:00 p.m. CT, 2:00 ET
Presenters: Greg Dillon, Frank Fay, Jim Menakis, Kelly Pohl, Joe Scott
See 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.
