UC offers webinar series on community forests

If you are passionate about a forest near you then you may want to tune into the UC Cooperative Extension webinar series on Community Forests.  The webinars will begin at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on April 7 with additional programs on April 13, 20 and 27. Participants may also want to take part in related field trips to Arcata Community Forest, Usal Redwood Forest, Tahoe-Donner and Weaverville Community Forest.

Community forests are forested lands that are managed to produce what people value. Forests may be valued as a source of timber for lumber, clean water, wildlife habitat, recreational purposes or for all of these benefits in combination.

The webinar series aims to present an overview of community forestry as it is currently being practiced in California. The intended audience is natural resource managers, environmental and forest activist groups, residents of forested regions who might benefit from a community forest approach in their areas and the general public concerned with forest management.

This program is a collaborative effort of the University of California Cooperative Extension and the Northern California Society of American Foresters, with funding support from the USDA Forest Service and the University of California.

Additional information and a link to registration are available at http://ucanr.org/community_forests.

UC collaborators on the project are natural resources advisors Mike De Lasaux, Susie Kocher, Gary Nakamura and contractor Richard Harris.

A webinar series and field trips will educate the public on community forests.

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