- Full agenda can be found HERE (PDF)
- Call for Exhibitors form HERE (PDF)
- 8:00
- Exhibit area open
- 8:30-9:00
- Registration and visit with exhibitors
- 9:00-9:15
- Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Heather Dionne – CUFC Chair/ City Forester, Hartford
- Eric Hammerling – Executive Director, CFPA
- 9:15-10:00
- Proforestation Management for Climate and Human Health: The Importance of Forests in Combatting Climate Change
- Bill Moomaw, Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy and Founding Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School.
- Proforestation: growing additional existing forests as intact ecosystems.
- Proforestation Management for Climate and Human Health: The Importance of Forests in Combatting Climate Change
- 10:00-10:15
- Break
- 10:15-11:00
- The 2020 Connecticut Forest Action Plan: Leading into the Next Decade
- Dan Peracchio, CT DEEP Forest Planner & Legacy Coordinator
- Mary Tyrrell, former director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry
- The 2020 Connecticut Forest Action Plan: Leading into the Next Decade
- 11:00-12:15
- Morning Breakout Session
- A) The Prospect for Ash in Connecticut – in the Near Term and the Long Term – Richard Cowles & Claire Rutledge
- B) Deer, Pathogens, Health: Forest Health, Wildlife Diversity, Tick Abundance and Human Pathogens – Scott Williams & Megan Linske
- Morning Breakout Session
- 12:15-1:30
- Lunch and Awards Ceremony – Network with Exhibitors
- 1:30-2:45
- Afternoon Breakout Sessions
- C) Forest Management Considerations Following Gypsy Moth Defoliation – Dan Evans, CT DEEP State Lands Forester
- D) Managing the Forest for Wildlife Diversity – Peter Picone, CT DEEP Wildlife Biologist
- Afternoon Breakout Sessions
- 2:45-3:00
- Wrap-up session