The Wisconsin Urban Forestry Insider

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April 10, 2007

Green Awakening Taking Place in Paper Industry

Even with e-mail, we are still a predominantly paper society. America uses 100 million tons of paper each year, consuming one fourth of all the trees cut down in this country. But there is an awakening within the paper industry, which means you have another opportunity to make a difference by Going Green.

Green Awakening of Paper Industry (exit DNR)

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Job Opportunity - Heartland Tree Alliance Program Coordinator

Bridging The Gap (BTG) is seeking a highly motivated and qualified individual to serve as the program coordinator of Heartland Tree Alliance (HTA). In 2004 Bridging The Gap, along with its business, government and community partners, created a non-profit community forestry organization - Heartland Tree Alliance. This organization works to engage people of the greater Kansas City region to take action and advocate for a healthy community forest.

For additional information:

Heartland Tree Alliance Coordinator (exit DNR)

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Tree Benefits Webcast Available

The WDNR and USFS Webcast, "Urban Forest Pilot Project:Mapping & Calculating the Benefits of City Trees" is available on-line. The hour-long presentation features the results from a recent mapping project in Middleton, WI and illustrates how tree canopy and impervious surface data is created, how it is used with CITY green software to calculate the dollar value that trees can save cities, how green infrastructure connections can be made in the process and how the findings will be used to improve Middleton's urban forest.

Tree Benefits Webcast

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Job Opportunity - City of Milwaukee

TECHNICAL SERVICES SUPERVISOR

City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works, Environmental Services - Forestry Division is accepting applications for Technical Services Supervisor. This position serves under the direction of the Forestry Services Manager and coordinates and supervises technical services for the Environmental Services section of the Operations Division. This includes development and implementation of in-service training programs; development and coordination of independent and cooperative research projects related to plant health care and urban forest management techniques and operations; supervision of six full-time technicians and additional seasonal staff engaged in regulatory and code enforcement activities for weeds and tall grass, public right-of-way encroachments and hazard tree abatement on public and private property.

For additional information contact the City of Milwaukee Department of Employee Relations at 414-286-3751 or Technical Services Supervisor

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Nature Conservancy Responses to MJS Editorial -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Nature Conservancy responses to recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial and articles regarding emerald ash borer. The Nature Conservancy advocates that to protect our forests from a myriad of damaging pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture needs to adopt much more effective prevention programs. USDA has begun updating its regulations, but the process will take years - during which time more pests will enter unless we take steps to prevent additional introductions while the new system is put in place.

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State 'Boxed In' on Ash Cutting - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The person in charge of Wisconsin's fight to keep the emerald ash borer from ravaging the state's 717 million ash trees concedes she has some doubts about a controversial state plan to stop the bug's advance with massive cuts of healthy trees - a plan she has defended for months. But Melody Walker, the chief of the pest survey and control section of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, said she has little choice in the matter.

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Wisconsin Urban & Community Forests Newsletter Spring Issue Available

The Spring 2007 issue of the Wisconsin Urban & Community Forests newsletter is available on-line at:

WU&CF Newsletter

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Resources for a Green Community Webcast

A webcast featuring 'Resources for a Green Community' will be held on April 18th at 11:00 AM (Eastern). A huge volume of information, publications, tools, and technical services are available to communities, urban foresters, consultants, and arborists at little or no cost. This webcast will highlight those that may be considered to be of greatest value to you, the public and your partners, and guide you through the many avenues to receiving these resources in a timely manner.

This April edition of the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station's Urban Natural Resources Institute (UNRI) Informational Webcast, aims to bring to you up to date on the work of Forest Service scientists, and our cooperators, who are working on urban natural resource research and development projects.

Resources for a Green Community (exit DNR)

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Northeast Minnesota Community Forest Workshop

The 9th annual Community Forest Workshop will be held on May 16th at the Cloquet Forestry Center in Cloquet, Minnesota. The workshop is designed to share urban forestry education with those who have a public or private stake in a community's green space. This includes public workers, urban foresters, tree care providers, Master Gardeners, Tree Care Advisors, camp ground workers, park workers and citizens responsible for trees in rural communities. For additional information visit:

Community Forest Workshop (exit DNR)

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Environmental Education Spring Highlights

April 15-22. National Environmental Education Week. Join the largest organized environmental education event in U.S. history. It increases the educational impact of Earth Day by creating a full week of educational preparation and learning.

April 28. Project WILD, Ladysmith. Kids love wildlife and that's why teachers and non formal educators will love this exciting conservation and environmental education program. Over 150 activities designed to develop awareness, knowledge, skills and commitment to result in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning aquatic and terrestrial wildlife and the environments they depend upon.

May 2. Project Early Learning Tree, Early Childhood Educator Workshop. Early childhood educators are raving about the Project Learning Tree PreK-K Activity Guide and Music/Movement CD. With these fun, interdisciplinary activities, children become nature detectives, dance with a tree, and take a simulated walk through a forest, complete with the sounds of the animals that live there.

For additional information on these programs and other environmental education activities visit:

Teacher calendar

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More Conferences and Seminars

For more conferences and seminars check out WDNR's Urban Forest Website.

More Conferences and Seminars

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About the Insider

The Wisconsin Urban Forestry Insider is intended as a quick networking tool for all people actively working in the area of urban and community forestry, especially in the state of Wisconsin.

Items that cannot wait for our quarterly print newsletter, Wisconsin Urban & Community Forests, will appear here.

The Insider is produced biweekly by the Urban and Community Forestry program of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, Wisconsin. Past issues will be archived on the UF pages on the WDNR web site.

We are happy to accept your suggestions and contributions. Send them to the editor, at Laura.Wyatt@Wisconsin.gov. Or call her: 608/267-0568.

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