- Dr. David Moorhead Honored as FLA's Extension Forester of the Year
- David Arnold Named Tennessee State Forester
- Solon Dixon Education Center to Offer Day of Herbicide Webinars
- GA Extension to Host Agroforestry & Wildlife Field Day in Griffin, GA
- Dr. Dave Coyle Continues His Summer Forest Health Tour
- FL Air Force Range Prescribed Fire Program Reduces Wildfire Severity
- Upcoming Webinar to Showcase VA Urban Tree Volunteer Programs
- ISA Industry Workforce Summit Results Available
- AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program Grant Available
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Regional News
Dr. David Moorhead Honored as FLA's Extension Forester of the Year
On June 28, 2018, the Forest Landowner
Association honored Dr. David Moorhead with its Extension Forester of the Year Award for 2018 at its National Conference of Private Forest Landowners in Greensboro, NC. We would like to offer a hearty congratulations to Dr. Moorhead on the award and all he has accomplished throughout his distinguished career of 34+ years!
read more about Dr. Moorhead
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David Arnold Named Tennessee State Forester
David Arnold, previously the Assistant State Forester of Tennessee, was recently named Tennessee State Forester and Assistant Commissioner for Forestry. He will start in that capacity on August 1, 2018. We are pleased to congratulate him on the honor and excited to work with him in his new position!
read the press release
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Solon Dixon Education Center to Offer Day of Herbicide Webinars
Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center will be offering a series of webinars on applied herbicide demonstrations this coming Tuesday, July 31 starting at 9 AM ET. The first webinar (9 AM - 10 AM ET) will cover mid-rotation understory in pine stands, the second (11 AM - 12 AM ET) strip and spot treatments in longleaf pine or mixed pine forests, and the third ( 2 PM - 3 PM ET) will go over invasive species. Each webinar will be available for 1 CEU and webinar links will be available on July 31 on Solon Dixon's flickr page.
visit the page where webinar links will be available
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GA Extension to Host Agroforestry & Wildlife Field Day in Griffin, GA
University of Georgia Extension along with Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and other key partners will be hosting the next Agroforestry and Wildlife Field Day September 20, 2018 in Griffin, GA. Experts will discuss basic agroforestry and wildlife management.
Held every three years, the event is a joint effort of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
see more information and register
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SREF News
Dr. Dave Coyle Continues His Summer Forest Health Tour
This week, Dr. Coyle conducted a forest health workshop for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry at the Tennessee Forestry Academy. He spoke on insects, diseases, and invasive plants and led a walking tour that touched on real-world solutions to invasive species and forest health problems. Attendees received a pocket guide to help them diagnose and recommend management for native and invasive forest pests.
FL Air Force Range Prescribed Fire Program Reduces Wildfire Severity
SREF Extension Associate Holly Campbell recently wrote a new Wildfire Success Story for the southeastern arm of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Program about a February 2018 wildfire that burned onto Avon Park Air Force Range property in Polk County, Florida from an adjacent private property. Fortunately, the tract of land had received prescribed fire treatment in the last 12 months, which contributed to reduced wildfire strength and limited the land burned by the wildfire to 75 acres. Although fire burned over 5,500 acres in all, the damage could have been far more severe if not for the prescribed fire program at Avon Park.
read the success story
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Upcoming Webinar to Showcase VA Urban Tree Volunteer Programs
Virginia has developed two successful urban tree citizen volunteer programs called Tree Stewards: the Virginia Extension Master Gardener (MG) Tree Steward program and Trees Virginia. In this webinar, John Freeborn, Virginia Extension Agent and Master Tree Farmer Coordinator, and Nora Palmatier, Board Member of Trees Virginia, will discuss how Extension Agents can work with volunteers to increase and maintain urban tree canopy using the successful Tree Steward programs as examples.
read more about the webinar
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National News
ISA Industry Workforce Summit Results Available
On May 22-24, the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) hosted an inaugural industry summit at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory in Charlotte, NC. The objective of the Summit was to work together to diagnose challenges currently facing the industry and develop actionable solutions
. A detailed report of the Summit's proceedings has been prepared and is now available.
read the results report
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Funding Opportunities
AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program Grant Available
Approximately $182 million is available in funding from NIFA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), which is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences.
read more
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July 31, 2018 | Starting 9 AM ET
Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center will be offering a series of webinars on applied herbicide demonstrations. Topics include mid-rotation understory in pine stands, strip and spot treatments in longleaf pine or mixed pine forests, and invasive species.
August 16, 2018 | 1 PM ET
In this webinar, John Freeborn, Virginia Extension Agent and Master Tree Farmer Coordinator, and Nora Palmatier, Board Member of Trees Virginia, will discuss how Extension Agents can work with volunteers to increase and maintain urban tree canopy using VA's successful Tree Steward programs as examples.
September 20, 2018 | Griffin, GA
Join Georgia Extension and other partners for an all-day event covering the basics of agroforestry and wildlife management.
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