January 31, 2007. Washington, D.C. The Administration's Farm Bill proposal can be found at the following web site: http://www.usda.gov/documents/07finalfbp.pdf . The conservation programs are listed in Title II, Research is Title VII, Forestry Title VIII

The Urban Extension Conference will be May 7-10, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. It is being planned by the 12 North Central states and hosted by University of Missouri Extension. The planning committee has issued a call for presentations, and is looking for outstanding presenters to attend America’s finest urban conference for Extension Professionals whose focus is reaching new and diverse audiences in urban communities across the county.

The Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) is accepting applications for cost-share demonstration projects that assist the WERC in meeting its mission of facilitating interaction and information exchange with the forest products industry that will enhance opportunities for sustained forest products production in the eastern hardwood forest region.

Personal selling is the leading form of promotion used in the forest products industry.

Public comment is being sought on a new report that offers the most comprehensive set of voluntary, national guidelines ever developed for sustainable landscapes.

BLACKSBURG, June 8, 2007 - Mila Alvarez, a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and working at the university's National Capital Region campus, has authored a comprehensive report for the Society of American Foresters (SAF) that details everything there is to know about American forests.

The Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources announced that its Department of Forestry as changed its name to the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation <http://www.forestry.vt.edu/> (http://www.forestry.vt.edu/) to better reflect the breadth and depth of the many natural resource programs offered.

BLACKSBURG, Va., May 23, 2006 Beginning this fall, Virginia Techwill offer a one-of-a-kind Ph.D. program in geospatial and environmental analysis. "This interdisciplinary doctoral program, based in the College of Natural Resources, is designed to meet one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century the sustainable management and conservation of natural resources," explained geography department head Larry Grossman.

Please plan to join us for the January edition of the USDA ForestServiceUrban Natural Resources Institute (UNRI) Informational Webcast,which aims to bring to you up to date on the work of Forest Servicescientists, and ourcooperators, who are working on urban natural resource research anddevelopment projects.

The Council serves in an advisory capacity to the Secretary of Agriculture on the urban and community forestry program.