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See How Green Communities are $mart Communities
SMA has recently developed a set of Urban Forestry Best Management Practices for use by municipal arborists, planners, urban foresters, concerned citizens, green industry professionals, or anyone interested in creating and sustaining trees and green space in their communities. They are designed to be simple, easy to understand, and versatile for anyone wishing to explain, understand, or investigate the many ways in which green development makes good economic sense.
The series of BMP documents utilize visual imagery to describe various management techniques and benefits. Each is supplemented with a list of internet links providing greater detail, applicable tools, examples, and other citations to reinforce each topic.
Formatted into 3 main topics, the documents take a look at WHY trees are important to communities, WHERE trees fit into a community, and WHO works with and manages community trees. These colorful flyers are ideal for use at local events, as educational materials, or as support material for program development.
They’re FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND DISTRIBUTE from this page.
This publication was funded in whole or in part through a Forest Service National Urban and Community Forestry Grant as recommended by the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council. www.fs.fed.us/ucf
GCA Applications for Urban Forestry Fellowships
Zone VI of the Garden Club of America (GCA) is pleased to announce the call for applications for its 2012 Urban Forestry Fellowships. The GCA strives to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.
In 2012, multiple fellowships in the amount of $4,000 each will be awarded to graduate or advanced undergraduate students studying urban forestry, environmental studies, horticulture, forestry, and related courses of study with a special interest in the urban forest. With these fellowships, the GCA seeks to fulfill their goal of advancing our knowledge of urban forests and increasing the number of scientists in the field of urban forestry. GCA has a history of interest in the health of the urban forest and would like to support young scientists in their undergraduate and graduate studies in this field. The study areas of interest are far reaching, including urban forest management and planning as well as tree biology issues that will move urban forest science forward.
Details on fellowship eligibility and the application process are available at urbanforestry.frec.vt.edu. Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee at Virginia Tech composed of urban forestry educators, scientists, and professionals. The committee identifies meritorious applicants and nominates them for the fellowships, which are then awarded by the GCA. The application deadline is January 31, 2012. If you have any questions concerning the scholarship application or eligibility requirements, please contact gcaurbanforestry@vt.edu.
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Online CEUs
The SMA Education and Website Committees have teamed up to offer you, our members, this service.
It's easy and you can earn CEUs when it is most convenient for you. Most of all, it's FREE FOR SMA MEMBERS!
Check out the latest CEU offering now by logging in and clicking "Online CEUs" on the top Members Only navigation bar.
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