Forest Management Practices to Enhance Wild Pollinators in Southern Pine Forests

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Forest insect pollinators provide critical ecosystem services in forested landscapes. Yet, their responses to various natural and anthropogenic disturbances are vastly understudied in the southern U.S. forests. This webinar aims to provide a current synthesis of forest attributes (structure and composition) and management activity impacts on wild pollinators. This will allow for adaptive forest management practices that retain economic benefits while also enhancing local floral and faunal biodiversity. Directions for future research and current collaborative efforts on pollinators in the southern U.S. forests will also be discussed.

Speaker

Kamal Gandhi, Director, Southern Pine Health Research Cooperative at the University of Georgia

Is this webinar for you?

This webinar is intended for a diverse audience, including foresters, scientists, and natural resource managers. It is a webinar for anyone interested in adaptive forest management practices to preserve wild insect pollinators in managed lands.

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Pricing

This webinar is FREE ($0) for all attendees and was made possible by contributions from the following professional development partners:

USDA Forest Service
Manulife Investment Management
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Forest Resources Institute
Oregon State University

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Webinar access

The webinar was live on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 3 pm ET.

The archived recording of this webinar is available for viewing through February 15, 2025.

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Webinar duration

This webinar is 1 hour.

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Describe the role of pollinators in forests.

2. List forest attributes critical to conservation of insect pollinators.

3. Identify management practices that best maintain populations and communities of insect pollinators.

Rubric

Successful completion of the webinar is measured by participating in the entire webinar and completing the evaluation.

Evaluation

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CFEs

Upon successful completion of this webinar, you will earn 1.0 CFEs in Category 1. CFEs will automatically be added to your CFE record located on www.eforester.org by the end of the day (11:59 pm ET).

Certificate

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Kamal Gandhi

Director

Southern Pine Health Research Cooperative - University of Georgia

Dr. Kamal JK Gandhi is the Wheatley Distinguished Professor of Forest Health and the Director of the Southern Pine Health Research Cooperative at the Warnell School of Forestry at the University of Georgia. Her lab’s mission is to understand the principles of community and population ecology of forest insects and to provide real-life solutions for forest conservation and sustainability. She works on a variety of insect taxa with a focus on terrestrial ecosystems, and on both integrated pest management and insect conservation and biodiversity issues. Her research program is multi-disciplinary, multi-national, and she collaborates with many scientists, and state and federal agencies across the world.