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We are pleased to announce that we have nailed down dates and venues for a couple of the major events that we organize each year: the Youth STEAM Summit and the Forest Landowner Conference. ? The STEAM Summit is a great learning opportunity for rising 9th to 12th grade students in our region, as well as their parents, school counselors and educators. STEAM, if you haven't guessed it, stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Math. This year's free, one-day session will be held July 25th in Rocky Mount, N.C. It features exhibits and fun, educational and interactive experiences for attendees. ? The Forest Landowner Conference, also free to attendees, is a two-day workshop for woodland owners. It too will be held in Rocky Mount, N.C., this year on October 23 and 24. Forest owners are able to interact with their peers and exhibitors from an array of conservation- and forestry-oriented agencies and NGOs, as well as a few forest product companies. While our program specifically serves woodland owners in 13 counties in northeastern North Carolina, the reality is that many of the folks who own land in our region actually live outside these 13 counties and often outside the state of North Carolina. The conference is open to all of them. ? If one or both of these events holds potential for you, please be sure to Save the Dates! (And help spread the word to family, friends and neighbors.) Within the Events section of our website (link below), we have landing pages dedicated to both of these events. There you can see details and images that will provide a better feel for the events. The landing page for the Forest Landowner Conference also lets you download presentations from last year’s conference, and view six short videos featuring interviews with program partners and participating landowners. ? If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us, either via this account or by way of the contact information you can find on the website. #northcarolina #forestry #stemeducation #conservation #heirsproperty

This is a great idea to begin creating this database and possibly observing how outages have changed over time, including how utilities are starting to collect more details surrounding tree-caused outages.

Day 2 of #WaterSoftHack event. Data analytics training by Ibrahim Demir The University of Iowa - College of Engineering. For more info please visit https://lnkd.in/eM_rdvXs Clemson University - College of Agriculture, Forestry & Life Sciences Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) #WaterSoftHack #machinelearning #hydroinformatics #waterscience

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While the forests are different, this is something we are watching carefully. What do I mean by saying "the forests are different?" Well, we are in a rain forest and a very rural area. This study is being done in a drier climate (with different vegetation) and a more urban area. Currently, many in our area are the rope in a three-way tug-of-war between the USDA Forest Service, the State Fire Marshall's Office, and the insurance companies. The USDA Forest Service owns conservation easements that prevent properties within 1/4 mile of the Rogue River from cutting wild trees (or, technically, even pruning the wild trees). These easements were acquired in the 1970s - before the concept of defensible space had arisen and before the Silver Fire, the Biscuit Fire, the Chetco Bar Fire, the Klondike Fire, the Flat Fire, and the Anvil Fire (six of the 40 or more named fires that have been impacted our area). The State Fire Marshall's Office requires property owners to maintain defensible space. Insurance companies are refusing to write new policies and, in some cases, are indicating a reluctance to renew existing policies - citing wildfire risk as the basis for their decision.

This will be a great informational session on forestry and how Planet can give you a more up to date view! Come check it out!

In case you missed it, Clemson University’s new mass timber forestry and environmental sciences building is breaking ground, setting precedents, and making headlines. Read American School & University’s article highlighting the first mass timber academic building on the Clemson campus: https://ow.ly/gzce50R8x05 #MoseleyArchitects #designingsolutions

Teaching tsunami One day you are all happy and relaxed, with plenty of time for cooking dinner of any kind. Three course dinner? No problem! Then, one day, just around the corner comes the start of semester. It is a bit like when one is distracted at the beach, waving hello to a friend or loved one and a sneaky wave tackles us and runs us over without any consideration. On the plus side, I am usually looking for links that could be interesting to first year forestry students. Some times they are about forestry related news, but others are nice implementations of data visualizations that tell an interesting story. That's when I came across this interesting clustering of New York City neighbourhoods grouped by similarity of proportions of street-tree species, done by Kieran Healy (https://lnkd.in/exYJFNa4). Of course one thing leads to the next until I got to this great New York City Tree Map in which one can get information for nearly 3/4 of a million individual trees. Enough to motivate some students. Zoom in until finding a tree you like. https://lnkd.in/eUeNfT8C #teaching #academia