Cornell Cooperative Extension will hold two one-hour Forest Connect webinars on Forest Ecosystem Services – Valuing All the Benefits from Forests on April 15th at noon and 7 pm.
Healthy forest ecosystems provide many goods and services in addition to traditional wood products. They provide large areas of water filtration contributing to our clean drinking water reservoirs. They are an incredible carbon sink (in harvested and non-harvested wood stock and in soils) helping to regulate climate. They provide space for diverse wildlife, hiking, and hunting, among other things.
However, generally, only the wood products are actively monetized. These webinars, presented by Jeni Wightman from Cornell’s Department of Crop & Soil Science, will attempt to Identify the combined ecosystem services and value all the economic and social benefits that healthy ecosystem provides.
Understanding the myriad of goods and services that forests provide the public may help promote conservation and good decision making by public and private landowners.
To take part in one of these webinars, you need to register for each monthly webinar. Obtain your registration ID via: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5IRFqn7oSYm5D-Vyqb8-3Q
If prompted for a password use “Cornell”.