Check out this new forest health publication dealing with Climate Change.
Research Institutions, Government, Environmental Experts and Leading Non-profit and For-profit Corporations Launch Effort to Determine Role of Forest Biotechnology in Fight Against Forest Diseases and Pests.
Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for catastrophic fires. With a rapidly growing interest in recreation and residential development in forest settings, an increasing number of citizens and their property face the dangerous consequences of wildfires.
The second edition of this highly useful and practical dictionary translates more than 1,200 arboricultural terms from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English—a “must-have” for arborists in bilingual work crews.This reference has been updated with many new pages of illustrations to identify groups of tools, safety equipment, knots, leaves, pruning cuts, and more in both Spanish and English for quick understanding and translation.
The goal of this workshop series is to teach you to think more effectively and therefore act more responsibly in decision making about natural resources. This workshop series devotes time to the study of three frameworks (Social Process, Decision Process, and Problem Orientation) that can help practitioners better understand the natural resource issues they face, and therefore make better decisions. Case studies are used to build substantive as well as analytical knowledge. All workshops will employ a combination of lecture, small group exercises and group discussion to further reinforce the material.
By Brett Butler, National Woodland Owner Survey Coordinator - Data collection for the first five years of the NWOS has been completed! We are currently processing the data and hope to have preliminary results out for review within a few months. Following finalization of the results, a 5-year comprehensive report will be published that will include state-level results. In addition, we are working on a revised web site that will include a web-based tool for customized data retrievals.
The 1990 Farm Bill created the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council to bring together the wide variety of voices raised about a common concern: the present health and future preservation of America's urban treescapes. NUCFAC was founded to synthesize the full spectrum of views into a consistent vision, as a foundation for practical policy on urban forestry.
The National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) announces a groundbreaking public forum in Biloxi, Mississippi on June 6, 2007 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. "We want to hear directly from people and communities where urban forests have been hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf region, ice storms in the Midwest, tornados, and other devastating storm events," said Joe Wilson, Council Chair. NUCFAC is using this public input to develop a recommendation to the Secretary of Agriculture to help address this national issue.
The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council has released the 2007 Challenge Cost-Share (CCS) Request for Pre-Proposals (RFP) - Urban Forestry Project Funding Opportunity. Pre-proposals are due by Wednesday, September 6. The RFP may be found at the Council's website: http://www.treelink.org/nucfac.
The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council has released the 2007 Challenge Cost-Share (CCS) Request for Pre-Proposals (RFP) - Urban Forestry Project Funding Opportunity. Pre-proposals are due by Wednesday, September 6. The RFP may be found at the Council's website: http://www.treelink.org/nucfac.
