April 19 at Mammoth Cave National Park 9am-2pm CT/10am-3pm ET for the Leopold Education Project (LEP) Leopold Education Project Program Training (LEP). This is an innovative, interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the essays in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Learn more and register at https://www.kaee.org/event-calendar.html#!event/2022/4/19/core-curriculum-program-training. This course can help woodland owners and applicants for the Leopold Conservation Award learn how to communicate more effectively about conservation practices.

Yale Forest Forum
Tuesdays, January 25 to April 19 at 11:30am - 12:10pm ET.
The webinar will bring in a wide range of experts to discuss the future role of bioenergy from forests in addressing climate, resource, societal and environmental challenges at regional and global scales. Guest speakers will represent forestry, energy, conservation, and climate science.


More info and register at:
https://yff.yale.edu/news/future-forest-products-changing-climate-bioenergy-forests

FORESTRY TAXATION WEBINARS are one hour each at 1:00 PM ET/ noon CT each Tuesday from January 18 through February 15, 2022.

• Process for joining webinar: 30 minutes before the start of the webinar, click the Join button, answer the questions and then you will get to a screen that says "start the webinar." Click this button and it will take you to Zoom. Keep the original window open, in case you need to re-join the webinar. 
• Click Read More to see the attached PDF document for tips on joining the webinar through the forestry webinar portal.
• Pre-registration is not necessary. However, if you do pre-register, you will need enter your name again when the webinar is live. 
• Each webinar will be recorded for later viewing

The recording from the first webinar: Overview of Forestry Taxes, can be found here: https://forestrywebinars.net/webinars/seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-an-overview-of-forestry-taxes/?sr=wp~ondemand

Registration is open for the 2022 KY Forest Health Conference, Feb 9, 9-12 ET: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zFVCY9CtSFSayEbj0qxvjQ  This year’s conference will feature a range of talks on current issues, threats on the horizon, and management options including spotted lanternfly, thousand cankers disease, invasive plants, storm damage, and more.  The conference will be online and free but registration is required.  Register at https://forestry.ca.uky.edu/fhc-conference  Flyer and Agenda in downloadable PDF's below. 

To Kentucky USDA State Technical Committee and Other Interested Persons:
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The first Kentucky FY 2022 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) application batching period cut-off date has been announced as November 12, 2021. All EQIP and Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) applications received by this date will be considered for FY 2022 funding. Applications received after November 12th will be held for a future cut-off (although most years we only have one cut-off.)

Free Webinar for KWOA Woodland Community
October 20 at 7 PM – 8 PM ET Eastern (30 min presentation and 30 min Q&A)

Registration can be done through KWOA Wood Post email or with the public link shown above. Registration link for the webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocuCspzoqH9c-Q0KSZE-vnsT31z2wC-gb

In anticipation of the December 1, 2021, enrollment deadline for the 2022 NCX Carbon Credit in Kentucky, NCX is offering a free follow-up webinar to KWOA on their program. A one-pager of the current cycle is in a PDF here. For an overview of this webinar, including presenter Kathryn Morse, NCX Landowner Success Manager, click Read More.

A recording of the October webinar will be posted after the event. A recording of the June 8 webinar is still up on our site here: https://www.kwoa.net/kwoa-meetings/june-8-zoom-meeting

​Webinar (1 hr.)
October 6, 10 a.m. Eastern

Dr. Adam Maggert, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at Auburn University will present the results of the 2020 (CTSFP) survey, the most comprehensive survey of its kind. This survey traces the costs of management practices from prescribed fire to herbicide/pesticide applications, invasive species control, and more. Information from this survey has many practical implications for landowners, foresters, government agencies, and other forestry stakeholders. Registration link: https://forestrywebinars.net/webinars/gain-insights-into-cost-trends-and-management-practices-of-working-forests?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub