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11.24.2009

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2007—Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell today announced the release of the Forest Service’s Open Space Conservation Strategy.

11.24.2009

October 28 -- The USDA Forest Service has unveiled a national strategy toprevent and control the threat of invasive species and non-native plants inthe United States.

11.24.2009

The Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) is accepting applications for cost-share demonstration projects that assist the WERC in meeting its mission of facilitating interaction and information exchange with the forest products industry that will enhance opportunities for sustained forest products production in the eastern hardwood forest region. The funding available this fiscal year is approximately $1 million. Completed applications are due to the WERC on or before February 1, 2006.

11.24.2009

This conference focuses on how the economic, social and environmental returns from small-scale forestry can be improved. The conference is of relevance to both researchers and policy makers from developed and developing countries. There will be a particular focus on using systems-based approaches for improving returns from small-scale forestry and agroforestry

11.24.2009

Designed to provide students with information on fire ecology, wildlandfire management, prescribed burning, and the expanding role of the firemanager in the wildland/urban interface, the Living on the Edge:Wildland Fire Management Laboratory Manual has been written and reviewed by instructors in 6 different Schools of forestry across the US. Hands-on exercises offer students a laboratory environment to applytheir knowledge, including their understanding of the wildland fire manager's role in the wildland/urban interface.

11.24.2009

This is the final call for abstracts for our conference "Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Land-Use Science and Society", to be held April 9-12, 2007 at the Sheraton Atlanta. The conference announcement is below and the deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31, 2007. We have a dwindling pool of money made available by NSF to provide travel grants for students.

11.24.2009

This is a very special Grant proposal by the Forest ServiceRecreation folks to outreach to communities, non-profits, corporations,states to partner with them in developing a proposal to get kids back inthe woods. They are basing this grant program on Richard Louvs book"Last Child in the Woods- Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder"If you or anyone you know are interested, please contact any NationalForest Service representative.This proposal call has a short deadline of March 16. The proposal needsto be developed in partnership with a National Forest Servicecontact/partner.

11.24.2009

The program committee for the joint meeting of the American Society for Environmental History and Forest History Society invites panel, paper, and poster proposals for its March-April 2006 meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. Proposals may address any area of environmental history, but in keeping with the conference themes the committee specifically solicits submissions examining the place of landscapes in environmental history. The conference site, hard by the Mississippi River, is a perfect setting in which to discuss the role of water in defining landscapes, natural and built, and their intersection and evolution.

11.24.2009

On behalf of Auburn University's Center for Forest Sustainability and the USFS Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interfaces Research and Information, I am pleased to formally announce the Call for Abstracts for our second Emerging Issues conference, to be held at the Sheraton Atlanta April 9-12, 2007.

11.24.2009

Tom Hammett of Blacksburg, associate professor of forest products marketing, is serving as the new scientific liaison officer to CIFOR.

11.24.2009

USDA FS and Southern Group of State Foresters have begun a 12 month project focused upon developing a strategic action plan addressing the gap between availability of capacity and existing need for the utilization and marketing of southern timber resources.

 
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