Climatic shifts are affecting forest habitats all across the U.S., challenging how we fulfill our mission of conserving, protecting, and enhancing wildlife habitat. Warming winters, extreme precipitation events, drought and catastrophic wildfire, and other elements affect pollinators, game species, bats, fish, birds, and the people that steward their habitats. Ecosystem management and community-building are part of the solution to addressing these challenges.
The U S Fish & Wildlife Service and the Northern Forests Climate Hub will hold a Managing Forests for Habitat in Suburbia webinar on September 16th from Noon to 1:30 pm EDT.
We invite you to join a diverse panel of urban forestry experts for a discussion on managing forests for wildlife habitat in an urban environment. We will explore the processes that shaped these environments, the stressors that threaten them, and how to effectively manage for wildlife habitat, resiliency, and the ecological services urban forests provide.
Listen in as the panelists uproot the concrete jungle and fill in its cracks with their seeds of knowledge. Come with your questions and grow with us as we pave a sustainable and resilient path through urban forestry.
Panelists:
Seth Hawkins, Urban and Community Forest Program Coordinator, Georgia Forestry Commission
Mike Martini, Director of Urban and Community Forestry – USA Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Robert Northrop, Emeritus Extension Forester, University of Florida
Walter Passmore, State Urban Forester – Resource Protection and Improvement, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
To take part in this webinar, register at Webinar Registration – Zoom