Department of Natural Resources Conservation

On November 13th 2009, five Urban Forestry students competed in the Student Career Days skills competition at TCI Expo in Baltimore. Eliot Beals, Lynda Clifford, Dave Golon, Kyle McCabe, and Vicki Pavao competed in six events against students from colleges across the country. Kyle McCabe won the footlock, belayed speed climb, and chain saw events [...]

Professor Guy Lanza, Director of the Environmental Science Program in the Department of Natural Resource Conservation has been invited to serve as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Russia next fall. He will travel in the City of Tyumen in South West Siberia to assist faculty and administrators at Tyumen State University and the Russian Academy [...]

The UMass student chapter of the Society of American Foresters organized a field trip to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Friday, 23 October, to tour the Schiller Wood-fired electric power plant, part of the Northern Wood Power Project of Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH).

Previously, PSNH's Schiller Station in Portsmouth ran three 50MW coal-fired steam boilers [...]

[ October 30, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the United States to give presentation on "Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Colloboration"

   Friday, October 30, 2009 • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
   Isenberg School of Management • 108

More information is at http://www.umass.edu/umhome/events/articles/93285.php

Joe Keefe and Vicki Pavao, who major in Urban Forestry & Arboriculture, each won a $1,500 scholarship from the New England Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (NEC-ISA). Joe (’08) and Vicki (’09) graduated from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Arboriculture & Community Forestry program before transferring into the B.S. curriculum in Urban Forestry [...]