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Hello Urban Forest
Advocates,
This week's newsletter includes the following urban and community
forestry news:
Upcoming CaUFC
Leadership Workshops
Direction, Connection: Leading Your Community
Limited to 30
attendees
Spend a day building and
polishing
your leadership and advocacy skills.
Sacramento - September 27, 2012
Spaces are
going fast, Save your spot today!
Workshop
Agenda - Click Here
Other dates:
LA/OC &
Inland - October 25, 2012
Central Coast
- November 8, 2012
San Joaquin
Valley - February 7, 2013
for CaUFC Members ~ for Non-Members
Click here for
more details and to register
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Call for Presentations:
For WCISA
Annual Conference:
WCISA is looking for
exciting presentations on "hot topics" for arborists for
their WCISA's 79th Annual Conference.
If you have expertise in new arboriculture techniques and methods,
scientific approaches to tree care, new technology or any other
topics to share, this is the perfect opportunity.
Click
here to submit your proposal
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CAL FIRE Requests for
Information:
For Forest
Pest Conditions Report
CAL FIRE is calling out for Urban Forest
content and participation for its upcoming annual
Forest Pest Conditions Report.
Please contact Tom Smith, CAL FIRE Forest Pathologist at tom.smith@fire.ca.gov with
any information in regards to reports of urban forest pests or
diseases.
New or not so new information is appreciation.
The info was be used to draw trends and identify problems.
Please share with your colleagues
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Droughts threaten Trees
throughout the Country:
“Tree Torture
Lab” looks for solutions
Climate Change means less
water which can starve trees.
To figure out how we can help the trees,
first we need more information.
A new research station at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in
New Mexico is using innovative and "harsh" research
tactics
to gather intel on how trees react to heat and drought.
Click
here to read the story
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Yours treely!
Sonali Shah
Communications and Outreach Manager
California Urban Forest Council
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