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SUMMARY:Herbaceous forest vegetation management
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kyle Cunningham (UArk) will provide a general overview of native and invasive nonnative herbaceous species of concern in the southeastern U.S. \nBoth native and nonnative herbaceous plant species can be detrimental to forest stands in the southeastern U.S. when they disrupt the ecological balance. Often\, nonnative invasive plants can grow unchecked and displace native species in small forest openings\, forest road right-of-ways\, and along roadsides. Opportunistic native herbaceous plants can become a nuisance in recently disturbed or logged sites\, Unchecked herbaceous species can erode forest productivity\, hindering forest use and management activities\, degrading diversity and wildlife habit. In this webinar\, Dr. Kyle Cunningham will provide information on accurate identification\, ecological impacts\, management strategies and more. \nInfo here.
URL:https://conservationprotraining.org/event/herbaceous-forest-vegetation-management/
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SUMMARY:Industrial Logging and Environmental Justice in the US South
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Treva Gear (Adel\, GA) and Adam Colette (Asheville\, NC) will be covering the environmental justice and economic impacts of large-scale industrial logging on the US South\, with a particular focus on the wood-pellet biomass industry that has rapidly expanded across the region over the past ten years. Their webinar will focus on how the biomass industry perpetuates a history of placing extractive and polluting facilities within communities of color\, why we need to view forest conservation through a renewed lens of environmental justice\, and will highlight a present day case-study from the community in Adel\, GA. \nInfo here.
URL:https://conservationprotraining.org/event/industrial-logging-and-environmental-justice-in-the-us-south/
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SUMMARY:Optimizing Ecosystem Service Provisioning through Tree Planting Strategies that account for Community Health and Demographics
DESCRIPTION:Increasing relevance of ecosystem services in decision-making requires interdisciplinary efforts that are grounded in community needs. The City of Cincinnati has over 300\,000 residents and would like to implement tree planting to promote resilience. To ensure resilience goals are pursued in an equitable and socially just manner\, the City of Cincinnati engaged in an interdisciplinary partnership where planners\, foresters\, GIS specialists and environmental justice scholars determined neighborhoods to prioritize for tree planting based on need for flood prevention\, heat mitigation\, and air purification. The assessment accounted for access\, susceptibility\, and equity patterns\, and integrated tree canopy\, demographic\, health\, and risk data to assess community need. \nInfo here. 
URL:https://conservationprotraining.org/event/optimizing-ecosystem-service-provisioning-through-tree-planting-strategies-that-account-for-community-health-and-demographics/
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SUMMARY:The Policy Context for Bioenergy
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive discussion of relevant policies for forest bioenergy must include the entire life cycle of the material\, including land use and feedstock production (i.e.\, harvesting woody biomass) as well as energy production. The use of the residuals of wood product manufacturing has a long history as a sustainable thermal bioenergy source\, but new bioenergy processes (e.g.\, the use of wood pellets) have emerged. To achieve deep decarbonization\, providing alternatives to fossil fuel use as well as promoting carbon sequestration will be necessary. The net benefit of forest bioenergy as an alternative to fossil fuel use has generated controversy\, not least of which is how the carbon flows through the life cycle. Policy vehicles that address land use issues\, carbon accounting\, Federal vs state-based oversight and the positioning of forest bioenergy as a renewable fuel will be explored. \nInfo here.
URL:https://conservationprotraining.org/event/the-policy-context-for-bioenergy/
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