Family Forest Research Center launches National Woodland Owner Survey

With the help of half a dozen dedicated undergraduate student workers, the Family Forest Research Center, a joint effort between the University of Massachusetts and the USDA Forest Service, has launched the 2011 version of the National Woodland Owner Survey.  In the upcoming weeks roughly 18,000 private landowners across the country will open their mailboxes to find a copy of the questionnaire, asking about who they are, why they own land, what they’ve done with it in the past, and what they plan to do with it in the future. An estimated 11 million private owners collectively control over half of the forested land in the United States.  Of these 11 million owners, 92% are families, individuals, trusts, estates, and other unincorporated groups. The recurring survey, last conducted in 2006, provides information on changes in attitude and behavior and allows a better understanding of this diverse and dynamic group that will help to foster better forest policies, more effective services and programs,...
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Andy Danylchuk, James Webb, and David Damery complete groundbreaking workshops in Uganda

15 April 2011: Kampala, Uganda – for immediate release An integrated UMASS Amherst team led by Dr. Andy Danylchuk and including Dr. James Webb, Dr. David Damery (Dept. of Environmental Conservation (ECO)) and Dr. Craig Hollingsworth (U Mass Extension) have just completed two groundbreaking workshops in Sustainable Rural Technologies in the Ugandan capitol city of Kampala.  These workshops are ultimately being used to guide the curriculum of a new university in the Teso region.  On Wednesday, Dr. David Damery, Director of the Building and Construction Technology program within ECO led the first workshop on “Green Construction in Uganda”.  The workshop was attended by architects, engineers, academics, and Government Ministry officials from across the capitol city.  The workshop revealed that topics such as adaptive reuse and embodied energy are not foreign terms within the building construction industry in Uganda, and that there is considerable desire to use alternative construction techniques to increase the sustainability of the build environment throughout the region. Dr. Andy Danylchuk,...
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Environmental Conservation Career Workshop – Room 308 Holdsworth

  Join us at 5:30 for pizza 5:30–6:00 Informal conversations with faculty and grad students about volunteer/intern/ research opportunities, grad school, and job searches. We are also happy to review resumes, so bring a copy along. 6:00-7:30 Faculty and graduate student led discussions on: Courses Research opportunities Online job searches Graduate school Cover letters Resumes Interviews Organized, facilitated, and sponsored by: ECo Graduate Student Council ECo faculty ECo Department Career Workshop Flyer ...
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