The Urban Forestry Institute - The Wildland-Urban Interface: Balancing growth with natural resource management and conservation

In this course, the Urban Forestry institute offered up-to date information on forest/urban interface issues. The course covers tools for planning and managing growth, natural resource management and conservation, and human dimensions issues. A team of natural resource specialists taught the course, interacting with students in lectures, discussions, and problem-solving projects. On a one-day field trip, participants learned about growth management, recreation opportunities, land use policies and fire management in Flagler County, FL. Topics and speakers included: 1. Issues, challenges and opportunities at the wildland-urban interface (Annie Hermansen/Eliana Kampf Binelli) 2. Planning and zoning at the WUI (Marc Smith) 3. Managing growth to conserve natural resources (Douglas Porter) 4. A county commissioner's perspective on growth management (Robert "Hutch" Hutchinson) 5. Using economic tools in interface planning and decision making (Bill Hubbard) 6. Integrating the value of natural resources into regional and local greening strategies (Cheryl Kollin) 7. Using GIS to identify critical community forest lands for conservation in the GA Piedmont (Lee Carmon) 8. Ecosystem management: An ecological approach to land-use decisions (Wayne Zipperer) 9. Surviving development and construction: How to develop land environmentally (Mary Duryea) 10. Managing for fire (Alan Long) 11. Managing for forest health (George Blakeslee) 12. Managing industrial forestland at the interface (Guerry Doolittle) 13. Wildlife Management (Joe Schaefer) 14. Watershed management (Larry Korhnak) 15. Biological invaders in the WUI (Hallie Dozier) 16. Managing forests in small parcels (Bob Bardon) 17. Exploring conflicts in the interface (Martha Monroe) 18. People's opinions about trees in the WUI (Brenda Allen) 19. Providing for intense forest recreation demand in the WUI (Taylor Stein) University course credit was available.

What
When	Jun 25, 2000 from 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Where	Daytona Beach, FL
Contact Name	Dr. Mary L. Duryea
Contact Phone	(352) 846-0896
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