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February 2021
Virtual Water User & Provider Forum; Upper Oconee Sub-Basin Water
Healthy, well-managed forests lead to safe and reliable drinking water, less water treatment, and less energy and chemicals used in drinking water treatment process. By paying forest landowners for these water cleaning services (or, ecosystem services), water users and providers can exponentially reduce their costs. So, what is the best mechanism, or structure, for an ecosystem services market? We are identifying the ecosystem services market structures that work for water users and providers. Join this virtual forum for the…
Find out more »Virtual Forest Landowner Forum; Lower Flint Sub-Basin Landowner Forum
Healthy, well-managed forests lead to safe and reliable drinking water, less water treatment, and less energy and chemicals used in drinking water treatment process. By paying forest landowners for these water cleaning services (or, ecosystem services), water users and providers can exponentially reduce their costs. So, what is the best mechanism, or structure, for an ecosystem services market? We are identifying the ecosystem services market structures that work for forest landowners. Join this virtual forum for the opportunity to…
Find out more »Virtual Water User & Provider Forum; Lower Flint Sub-Basin
Healthy, well-managed forests lead to safe and reliable drinking water, less water treatment, and less energy and chemicals used in drinking water treatment process. By paying forest landowners for these water cleaning services (or, ecosystem services), water users and providers can exponentially reduce their costs. So, what is the best mechanism, or structure, for an ecosystem services market? We are identifying the ecosystem services market structures that work for water users and providers. Join this virtual forum for the…
Find out more »Virtual Conference on Heirs’ Property & Sustainable Forest Management
Virtual Conference on Heirs' Property & Sustainable Forest Management Preregistration is required. Register now before the Feb 1, 2021 deadline. Sponsored by: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia This virtual conference will bring together experts in heirs’ property, including forest landowners experiencing it firsthand. We will share ideas and perspectives, provide updates on legal developments regarding heirs’ property, and present results from two integrated research and outreach initiatives. Though the main focus is on African American…
Find out more »An Evening with Rex Benham
Join the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources as it celebrates the school's first African American undergraduate student, Rex Benham (BSFR ’82). Benham, a Georgia native, is an area manager for RMS LLC and manages around 240,000 acres of forest land in East Texas. Please pre-register to attend this Zoom webinar. The event includes an introduction by Dean Dale Greene, members of the Warnell Forestry Club, and remarks from Benham.
Find out more »The Woman Landowner Workshops: Reforestation Techniques
Land & Ladies' The Woman Landowner Workshops: Reforestation is part of a 3 part workshop series covering all the aspects of forest management women should know when owning land. Land & Ladies workshops are unique where women attendees are taught by women professionals! Agenda: 8:30 Registration and Refreshments 9:00 Welcome and Introductions 9:20 Planning and Preparation – Danielle Atkins, Land & Ladies 10:00 Cost Share Opportunities – Sharon Swagger, NRCS 10:30 Pine Seedling Options – Alexandra Ford, Georgia Forestry Commission 11:00 BREAK…
Find out more »Team Safe Trucking: Module One – Introduction to Team Safe Trucking
Team Safe Trucking is happy to announce we will be offering Virtual Training Presentations each month of 2021! February: Module One - Introduction to Team Safe Trucking, Driver Condition, Driver Qualification, Vehicle Condition, COVID-19, and Downloading Talent LMS app. When: Feb 19, 2021, 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) REGISTER IN ADVANCE for this meeting. Register Here ➝
Find out more »2021 Virtual Forestry Day at the Capitol
Georgia Forestry Association members are invited to attend an exclusive virtual event for Forestry Day at the Capitol on Feb. 25, 2021, to hear from advocacy leaders at the state and federal level and to learn more about the GFA's legislative priorities. This event is free to attend for GFA members in good standing. If you are not a member, you may sign up in the registration form linked below. A full schedule of events is coming soon. REGISTER TODAY…
Find out more »How to talk about Southern Forests with the Public
Keeping Forests is a collation of multi-stakeholder partners committed to sustaining 245 million acres of southern forestland by 2060. There are major threats to this land and the solutions are largely in the hands of private landowners. Yet, to date, there has been limited research that reveals how the public understands the role of southern forests in their daily lives, the importance of them, and what the most critical solutions are. Raising awareness and shifting public opinion is a key…
Find out more »UNPRECEDENTED SEASONS | VIRTUAL LECTURE SERIES
Donna Sinclair - “From ‘Invalids need not apply’ to ‘Black Foresters Wanted’: The Forest Service in the Civil Rights Era” African Americans and other people of color remained largely excluded from forest management work until the late 1960s. Then, in the midst of an era of civil unrest, following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Forest Service created the Tuskegee Pre-Forestry Program, a seminal effort in moving “Toward a Multicultural Organization” by the 1990s. In this talk, historian…
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