Northwestern Massachusetts Virtual Forest Center Online focus group

When:
February 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2023-02-27T19:00:00-05:00
2023-02-27T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
online
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Andrew Randazzo
413 252-9534

The Forest Climate Resilience Program is working in partnership with organizations across Northwestern Massachusetts, including the Woodlands Partnership, to develop a Virtual Forest Center (VFC). The Virtual Forest Center will be an online hub of information regarding our local forests. The goal of the VFC is to provide community members and state and municipal officials access to a platform that shares up-to-date information about climate-smart forestry, traditional environmental knowledge, and other pertinent forest stewardship topics.

The VFC will support communities in better understanding threats to their forests, including climate change, and how forest stewardship can help to address those threats.

The Forest Climate Resilience Program will hold a virtual focus group meeting about providing forest health information on Monday, February 27th at 7 pm. The project team is actively seeking input on what residents would like to see in a virtual forest center.

To register for the focus group, go to https://bit.ly/VFCFocus .

To find out more, please reach out to Andrew Randazzo, Forest Ecologist with Mass Audubon at arandazzo@massaudubon.org  or call 413-252-9534, or to Lisa Hayden from the Woodlands Partnership at lhayden@newenglandforestry.org  or call 978.952.6856 ext. 121.