Case Studies in Conservation: UMass-Amherst NRC 597C schedule

Course schedule 2008: (speakers for 2008 are still being arranged at this time, but this gives you an idea of the kinds of topics and organizations represented)

The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 4 – 5:15 pm in Holdsworth Hall (room 305). Beginning on Tuesday, February 6, all subsequent seminars presented on Tuesdays have been approved for 1.0 credit of SAF Continuing Forestry Education, Category I.

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Students enrolled in the course click here to see who has volunteered to work on various cases. Please let Dave Kittredge know which one[s] you will be working on this semester. remember: your committment to a case and WRITTEN plan for its development is due 27 March in class.

January 29	Introduction, background, plan for the semester. Graduate and undergraduate students enrolled officially in the course only, please. No seminar speaker or case study this week.
January 31	Introduction, background, plan for the semester. Graduate and undergraduate students enrolled officially in the course only, please. No seminar speaker or case study this week.
February 5	Leigh Youngblood. Executive Director Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust. Case studies in Forest Stewardship by Mount Grace (see the new book here!)
February 7	Class discussion
February 12	Kristin DeBoer, Executive Director, Kestrel Trust.
February 14	Class discussion
February 19	NO CLASS. MONDAY SCHEDULE FOLLOWED
February 21	Class discussion
February 26	Jay Closser Real estate appraiser
February 28	Class discussion
March 4	Wendy Sweetser. Director. Highlands Community Initiative.
March 6	Class discussion
March 11	Keith Ross. Senior Advisor, Landvest. Case to be announced.
March 13	Class discussion
March 20, 22	No class, seminar, or discussion. Spring Break
March 25	Laura Marx. forest ecologist The Nature Conservancy. Westfield River Highlands Program Chester, MA
March 27	Class discussion TAKE HOME MID-TERM PASSED OUT IN CLASS. COMMITMENT TO A CASE AND WRITTEN PLAN DUE
April 1	Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Development, City of Northampton http://www.northamptonma.gov/opd/
April 3	Class discussion MID-TERM EXAM DUE
April 8	Brandon Kibbe. Land protection specialist, Mass Wildlife.
April 10	Class discussion
April 15	Lincoln Fish. private consulting forester. Baystate Forestry Services. Management of municipal lands
April 17	Class discussion
April 22	Glen Ayers. Rattlesnake Gutter Trust. Leverett, Massachusetts
April 24	Class discussion cancelled. Instructor out of town.
April 29	Tricia Bhatia. Greater Worcester Land Trust.
May 1	Class discussion
May 6	Chris Pryor. Forest Stewardship Coordinator, New England Forestry Foundation. The importance of monitoring easements.
May 8	Class discussion
May 13	Jennifer Jillson Soper, Regional Planner Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Division of Conservation Services
FRIDAY, 16 MAY	ALL CASE STUDIES DUE