US Forest Service Open Space Webinars
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6/21: Green Infrastructure Planning: Connecting Partners and Greenspaces
Kendra Briechle: The Conservation Foundation
Karen Firehock: The Green Infrastructure Center
Rick LeBrasseur: Center for Green Infrastructure Design
7/19: The Forest Service Toolbox: Land Acquisition and Conservation Easement Programs
Deirdre Raimo: US Forest Service State and Private Forestry (Forest Legacy and Community Forest and Open Space Program)
Nancy Parachini: US Forest Service (Land and Water Conservation Fund)
8/23: Local and Regional Land Trusts: Essential partners and the tools they provide
Kevin Case: Land Trust Alliance
Peter Stangel: US Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Gene Duvernoy: Forterra
Carl Silverstein: Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, Blue Ridge Forever Coalition
9/13: Facilitating Large Landscape Conservation Efforts: Working effectively across boundaries in the Northeast and Crown of the Continent.
Shawn Johnson – University of Montana, Practitioners' Network
Rob Pirani - Regional Plan Association
Case Studies from Crown of the Continent and Northeast: Speakers TBA
10/24: Science to inform Open Space Conservation: Land Use Changes, Forest Fragmentation, and the Wildland-Urban Interface
Dave Theobald Colorado State University
Miranda Mockrin US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Dave Wear US Forest Service Research, Southern Research Station
Kurt Riitters US Forest Service, Southern Research Station
11/7: Landscape Conservation Initiatives: USFWS, BLM, DOD, NRCS
Doug Austen: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Nancy Natoli: Department of Defense
Bruce Wight: Natural Resource Conservation Service
12/12: Private Land Conservation Programs from the Farm Bill and other sources: USFS Forest Stewardship, open space contacts at NRCS, Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Bruce Wight: Natural Resource Conservation Service
Karl Dalla Rosa: US Forest Service, Forest Stewardship
Farm Service Agency: Speaker TBA