Description: The year's conference theme, "Acorns to Mighty Oaks, Growing a Healthy Urban Forest" addresses the critical concerns to sustaining our urban forest landscapes. The location for the conference is the City of Oaks, Raleigh, NC.

Description: Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment and Virginia Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Forestry for the Bay, the Virginia Department of Forestry, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and other cooperators, will host a conference entitled Good Green, Bad Green: Invasive Plant Control for Habitat Restoration, in Front Royal, Va., Sept. 16-17.

Description: The purpose of this meeting is to bring together those state and federal agencies, NGOs, academics, and other professionals interested in increasing the awareness of the full range and potential of shortleaf pine/oak savanna ecosystems. While meeting, we will get an educational primer on shortleaf pine/oak savanna restoration, investigate the need for building partnerships to encourage and promote the restoration of these ecosystems and provide an opportunity for participants to give input into a restoration plan inclusive of critical problem identification, current and necessary information needs, and actions steps that need to be taken in the next five years to increase the planting of shortleaf pines and the establishment of shortleaf pine/oak savanna ecosystems.

Description: Municipalities are steadily improving their ability to manage urban forests, but much work remains. Air and water quality protection, energy conservation, noise abatement, and local products are but a few of the benefits of urban forest stewardship. In recent years, scientists have made significant strides in developing urban forest assessment and decision-making tools that help managers and local leaders achieve these and other objectives. These meetings will cover the state of urban forest assessment science and application, and provide testimonials and demonstrations regarding research and implementation in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond.