Readiness, Response, and Recovery: Managing Trees with Storms in Mind: Georgia Tree Council's Second Quarterly Program DUBLIN GA
The topic for this program will be "Readiness, Response, and Recovery: Managing Trees with Storms in Mind," and the Georgia Forestry Commission will roll out its new resources with the Green Infrastructure Center regarding specific pruning activities, risk assessment, and tree inventorying to prepare community forests for storms. We'll also review debris staging, contracts, and risk assessment. A Georgia Emergency Management Agency representative will speak on things to keep in mind to get assistance and highlight available funding opportunities. Up to 4 scholarships each are available to Georgia cities to attend this program.
10:00 – 10:05 a.m. Welcome from Mary Lynne Beckley, Georgia Tree Council
10:05 – 11:00 a.m. New resources in partnership with the Green Infrastructure Center: risk assessment, debris staging, and contracts to prepare community forests for future storms
• Karen Firehock, Green Infrastructure Center, Scottsville, VA
11:00 – 12 noon “Real World” Example: How preparing debris staging areas and contracts helped the City of Alexandria, Louisiana with a better storm response and recovery.
• Darren Green, ASLA, Landscape Architect, Alexandria, LA
Noon – 12:45 p.m. Lunch (included)
12:45 – 1:15 p.m. Getting assistance from FEMA: What to do and how to do it
• Maymunah Mirza, Georgia Emergency Management Agency
1:15 – 2:00 p.m. Resources or activities to help with recovery
• Applying for Georgia ReLeaf funding and other available funding made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act – Joan Scales, Partnership Coordinator, Georgia Forestry Commission and Starting a Nonprofit to Aid Urban Forest Recovery - Scott Berta, Plant Newnan
Adjourn
Lunch is included.
CEUs: 3.25 ISA Certified Arborist, Municipal Arborist, and BCMA-Management. 3 SAF Registered Forester CFEs. Landscape Architects and others will receive a certificate of attendance for their CEU records.
Need lodging?
Here are hotel suggestions from our friends in Dublin:
The Page House B&B is right down the street from city hall, where our event will be held: https://www.pagehousebb.com.
The Hampton Inn is a highly-rated hotel, followed by La Quinta, Holiday Inn and Fairfield - all located on I-16.
For a full list of list of Dublin Hotels, click on the link below.
