2020 New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit
Register (this virtual summit is free of charge) 2020 New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit: Learning from Raging Fires in the Southwest. October 22 & October 23 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Agenda for download Fire season is a challenging time let alone during the COVID-19 pandemic. Local governments, state and federal agencies, and nonprofit…
Maine Mountain Collaborative Symposium on Climate Change
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we postponed 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…
Inclusivity in Cooperative Extension Programming, With an Emphasis on Natural Resources and Climate Change
Join the webinar (a "join" button will be available on the page linked to the left. No need to pre-register.) Title: Inclusivity in Cooperative Extension Programming, With an Emphasis on Natural Resources and Climate Change Time and Date: October 26, 1:00 p.m. ET Full details, and the link to join the webinar on the date…
Defining Healthy Woodland Soil (webinar)
Photo by Jan-Willem Jansens of Ecotone Landscape Planning, LLC. Register October 29, 2020 12:00 p.m. MT (11 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. CT, 2:00 p.m. ET) Hosted by the Guild and Ecotone Landscape Planning, LLC. This webinar will provide information about the ecology of Pinion-Juniper ecosystems, specifically the interactions that occur between the surface and soil…
Managing Plantations with the Guild: 3 Regional Examples
Register (after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting) October 29 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET 1 SAF Cat 1 CFE credit is approved This webinar seeks to spotlight how Guild foresters in 3 separate regions are managing plantations in non-traditional ways. We will provide a brief historical context of…
Adaptation Short Course!
Register! ($150/land trust or 5 staffers) November 2, 5, and 19, 2020 at 11 a.m. Pacific/12 p.m. Mountain/1 p.m. Central /2 p.m. Eastern Full course information Course flyer for download The Land Trust Alliance and the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) are offering an online short course for land trusts actively working on…
Appalachian Cove Virtual Series – Aquatic Biodiversity webinar
Photo by S. Austin. This webinar is the last in a series that replaces an original event entitled Mountain Cove Forest Management and Conservation in the Central Appalachians. That original event will not be held due to Covid-19. Register (after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting) Aquatic biodiversity…
How to balance forestry and biodiversity conservation? A view across Europe
Register for this online conference November 9 - 10 5:00 a.m. ET - 12:00 p.m. ET View the agenda Various project initiatives over the past years have dealt with the topic of integrative forest management. The question on how to improve the situation for endangered species in multifunctional managed forests (see e.g. INTEGRATE, INTEGRATE+, INFORMAR…
Managing Forests for Carbon and Climate Change
Register November 12, 2020 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. ET Climate change, shifts in disturbance regimes, massive fragmentation and loss of forests, an increasing prevalence of non-native invasive insects, diseases, plants and animals have created considerable uncertainty around how to best care for our forests into the future. In response to these challenges, foresters, forest landowners…
Managing Woods and Fields for Wildlife (webinar)
Save the date! Thursday November 12 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET More information about this event coming soon! This is the third webinar in a four-part virtual series by ForestHer NC. About the series: ForestHer NC is going virtual! Presentations scheduled for the March 2020 Managing for Wildlife workshops will now be held as a…