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…

Communicating with Landowners About Oak Forest Resiliency

View the recorded webinar 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…

Women’s Chainsaw Safety Fundamentals: A two-part, interactive webinar

View the recorded webinar sessions below (The fundamental information shared in this two-part webinar will help prepare you for an in-person chainsaw safety training, but does not replace one. Until we can offer the in-person courses again, stay safe at home, and we hope that this interactive webinar will help build your fundamental knowledge of…

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…

Southwest Fire Season 2019 Overview and 2020 Outlook

Register today! 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…

Webinar – Carbon Storage at the Building Scale – Univ. of WA

Register today! 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…

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…

Career Call – webinar

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…

Confronting Changing Winters in the Northeast and Maine (webinar)

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…

Wildlife Habitat Management at the Catamount Community Forest, Vermont

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…