Fuels to Flows: Bringing Nature-based Restoration to the Headwaters August 26, 2025, 12 p.m. ET, 11 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. MT, 9 a.m. PT
The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) seeks to “change the rules” with a focus on utilizing low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) techniques, such as “gully stuffing”, to restore hydrologic and ecologic processes to riverine systems. This webinar will introduce the OAEC’s Fuels to Flows Campaign, which advances climate-smart nature-based restoration solutions at the nexus of fire and water. This approach advocates for the reintegration of fire and “fuel” load management with the “flows” of the carbon, water and life cycles. Created in the west as a collaborative approach to the critical need to restore water to the landscape and improve forest resilience to fire, Brock Dolman will share ample project case studies to demonstrate how the Fuels to Flows principles can become a framework for creative low-tech, cost-effective, hands-on solutions to a wide variety of restoration projects around North America, regardless of the need for fire management. more info...
Answering the Call for Native Seed: Scaling Up Small Scale Efforts to Meet the Need September 30, 2025, 12 p.m. ET, 11 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. MT, 9 a.m. PT
Stewards of natural areas in the eastern U.S. have been finding creative ways to address their needs for locally sourced, genetically appropriate seed to be used in the restoration of high biodiversity and ecologically significant landscapes (natural areas). These efforts involve critically important partnerships between state agency and NGO natural areas conservation programs and local farmers, seed companies, academic institutions, partner NGOs, state wildlife agencies and state seed associations. Each state’s program is unique in their approach, funding source, challenges and successes. This webinar will feature a panel formed by practitioners from programs in Missouri, Virginia, Arkansas, Kansas City and Minnesota. more info...
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Plants Out of Place: Communicating Effectively About Invasive Species December 9, 2025, 12 p.m. ET, 11 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. MT, 9 a.m. PT
The past, present, and future of invasive plants in our ecosystems is defined by human actions and notions of stewardship. Yet, public skepticism and mistrust towards the field of invasion biology have been heightened by pervasive criticism from within the social sciences, humanities, popular media, and by extension, the general public.
Thanks to support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Dr. Mason Heberling initiated a new project at Carnegie Museum of Natural History focused on increasing public awareness of invasive plants. During this webinar, Dr. Heberling will share outcomes and some lessons learned in connection to the changing scientific perspectives on the categorization and perceived threats of invasive plants and highlight the need for updated, inclusive communication strategies.
As an added feature, this program will highlight these strategies, experiments and collaborations that led to a new museum exhibition, Uprooted: Plants Out of Place. The exhibit integrates historical-scientific narratives through archival objects and museum specimens and recontextualizes the museum’s Hall of Botany of plant-centric dioramas dating from the 1920s that portray idealized plant communities devoid of humans - including the role of human responsibility and agency, invasive plants as passengers, the role of language in shaping attitudes, and other cultural points of view. more info...
The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills
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On the Impacts of Multiple Disturbances on the Resiliency of Tropical Freshwater Food Webs and Ecosystem Services in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
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