The Request for Applications for the FY 2008 RREA National Focus Funds is now posted at www.grants.gov. A total of $297,000 will be awarded across four focus areas:
The National Learning Center for Private Forest and Range Landowners ispleased to announce that we are now requesting proposals for thedevelopment of new learning modules (See the attached announcement).Please take a moment to distribute this announcement to list serves,organizations, and individuals where it might be of interest.
The USDA Forest Service Wood Education and Resource Center in Princeton, West Virginia is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations to assess the potential for developing and implementing National Wood Manufacturing Industry Skills Standards.
Confronting the Cogongrass Crisis Across the South, will be convened in Mobile, AL November 7 and 8, at the Author R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. The conference will cover the most effective and efficient cogongrass management strategies and treatments for forests, preserves, rights-of-way, and pastures, and with direct utility for municipalities and parks.
The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) recently published a new food plot book entitled "Quality Food Plots, Your Guide to Better Deer and Better Deer Hunting".
It is less than three months from the 15th Biennial Southern SilviculturalResearch Conference (BSSRC), coming up from November 17-20, 2008, at theHot Springs Convention Center in beautiful Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, (NUCFAC) announces a new approach and format for the U.S. Forest Service's National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge cost share grant program:
A New Web Site Titled Pallet Phytosanitation - Information for International Trade Has Recently Been Launched.
The USDA Forest Service, Southern Region, will soon advertise a GS-12/13 Rural Forestry Program Manager position located in the Cooperative Forestry Unit, State & Private Forestry, the Regional Office, Region 8, Atlanta, GA. The Forester serves as Rural Forest Program Manager for the Rural Forestry Assistance Program, providing leadership, guidance, assistance, and administrative/technical direction throughout the thirteen-state Forest Service , Region 8 area.
By Peg Herring, 541-737-9180Sources: Jim Johnson, 541-737-8954; Scott Leavengood, 541-737-4212CORVALLIS, Ore. – The 2009 recession has hit the Oregon forest sector especially hard, but now those working in that sector have a new resource that guides them with the click of a mouse to government stimulus programs.Oregon State University's Extension Forestry and Natural Resources program has developed a Web site to help people access federal stimulus funds and other opportunities.
