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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Technology in the Urban Forest
June
19, 2008
1:00-
2:00pm EDT
Technology
and trees is no more an oxymoron than urban forestry. If your mission
is to restore, enhance, and protect the tree canopy of a given
locality, then urban forestry technology tools can help you set and
achieve ambitious goals using a suite of tools including Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and tree benefit calculators. Extrapolating
the data into bottom line dollars and cents can be a powerful tool for
gaining the attention of public officials.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* Bringing trees to residents through mapping and Google Earth.
* How technology aids urban tree canopy goals and forest opportunity models.
* Applying technology to educational outreach and city services.
* Selecting an application: Right technology in the Right place.
* Tools, field assistance, and training needed.
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TECHNOLOGY TOOLS AVAILABLE
Scott Maco, Research and Development Analyst, Davey Tree (Seattle, WA)
i-Tree
was developed by USDA Forest Service researchers. It is a state of the
art, peer-reviewed computer software suite containing inventory,
analysis, and forecasting tools to help communities assess, manage, and
care for their trees and forests. The tools help measure the ecosystem
services provided by urban forests that improve human health and the
environment.
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FIELD APPLICATION OF TOOLS
Holli Howard, Director of Geographic Resources, Casey Trees (Washington, DC)
Since
2001, Casey Trees has used GIS for inventories and surveys including
neighborhood analysis, to share information with District and federal
government partners, citizens, business improvement districts, and
other organizations, for canopy analysis to set objectives for programs
and strategic planning, and to measure success and track
performance. Recently they have begun looking at the use of GIS in
long-range strategic planning- in particular, analyzing and setting
tree canopy goals district-wide.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
at Casey Trees
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance! Casey Trees has offered to host ACT members to their
organization for a week. Details will be available at the webcast, and
only webcast participants are eligible to apply.
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