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GIC Workshop: Managing Urban Forests for Disaster Resiliency

June 2, 2025 by Lauren

Come join GIC for a Storm Planning workshop in Hampton, VA on June 10th!

Register Here!

This workshop will build awareness of the processes, contracts and coordination needed to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters affecting our urban forests. Trees are a major component of storm debris and proper management before and after a storm can dramatically reduce the amount of debris, increase compensation for debris removals, and ensure restoration of lost tree cover. Learn about how to use tree risk assessment to prepare, creating standing contracts and planning for storm debris to respond and including trees in your emergency planning processes as well as upcycling storm debris.

Intended Audience: City, town, county managers, urban planners, municipal arborists, public works staff or directors, and emergency management staff.

Workshop will provide 2.5 ISA CEUs and 4.5 AICP CEUs

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Storm Planning for the Urban Forest: A Webinar Series

March 18, 2024 by Lauren

Four Part Webinar Series:

Join GIC’s executive director Karen Firehock, AICP, GIC’s director of Forest Conservation Matt Lee, ISA, TRAQ and Darren Green, Landscape Architect, Alexandria Louisiana for a series of webinars on storm planning for the urban forest. Karen, Matt and Darren will discuss assessing tree risk and creating standing debris contracts before a disaster strikes, effectively managing debris during a disaster, and restoring tree canopy during storm recovery. Register for one or all webinars in the series using the links below.

Pending approval each webinar will provide 1 free CEU ISA credit.

Webinar 1 Tree Risk Assessment: January 16, 2024; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Webinar 2 Standing Contracts: February 20th, 2024; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Webinar 3 Debris Management Sites: March 19th, 2024; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Webinar 4 Recovery: April 16th, 2024; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
REGISTER HERE

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