Webinars | California ReLeaf

Learn Over Lunch with Canopy – Recording Now Available

Megan Dukett — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:35:34 +0000

Learn Over Lunch with Canopy was hosted over Zoom on December 13, 2023. Canopy presented about their K-12 educational program model.

Speaker: Paul LaValle, Environmental Educator at Canopy

Topic: Canopy’s Educational Program Model for K-12 students

About Canopy: Canopy’s mission is to grow urban tree canopy in Midpeninsula (Bay Area) communities for the benefit of all. You can learn more about Canopy by visiting their website: https://canopy.org

About Learn Over Lunch

Learn Over Lunch is a California ReLeaf Network Member program designed to provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities among our 75+ urban forest nonprofits and community groups. Learn more about the Network by visiting: https://californiareleaf.org/network/

Learn Over Lunch with California ReLeaf Now Available

Megan Dukett — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:40:49 +0000

Learn Over Lunch with ReLeaf was hosted on October 11, 2023, over Zoom. California ReLeaf presented on Advocacy at the State and Local Levels with speaker, Victoria Vasquez, California ReLeaf’s Grants and Public Policy Manager.

About Learn Over Lunch

Learn Over Lunch is a California ReLeaf Network Member program designed to provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities among our 75+ urban forest nonprofits and community groups. Learn more about our 2023 Learn Over Lunch Series and register for upcoming programs.

Webinar Recording Now Available: Budgeting for Tree Care Success

Megan Dukett — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:23:38 +0000

About the Webinar

California ReLeaf hosted an Educational Webinar, Budgeting for Tree Care Success, on September 13, 2023. The webinar was designed to help organizations/grant writers learn how to budget for the success of their upcoming grant proposal or your new or existing tree-planting program. Learn best practices for creating a clearly defined budget based on site conditions, including planning for replacement needs and ongoing tree care and maintenance.

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You can also view the recording on California ReLeaf’s YouTube Channel.

About the Speaker

Doug Wildman graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Landscape Architecture. Doug holds a Landscape Architecture license, an ISA Arborist Certification, and the Urban Forester Certification. He is also a Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Design Professional. Doug has served on the executive board of the California Urban Forest Council including as President. He Co-Chaired the combined ReLeaf/CaUFC annual conference and Co-Chaired the Urban Wood Utilization Conference. Doug served on the board of the Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and was board president in fiscal year 2021-2022. Doug worked for 20 years with a non-profit tree planting organization in San Francisco on programs to improve San Francisco’s urban forest and to help bond neighborhoods through community-based urban forestry. Currently, Doug works as a consulting arborist and landscape architect in the SF Bay Area. Doug utilizes his environmental & arboricultural background in his designs, which range from large-scale residential to commercial office parks and from community-based design to single-client collaboration. Doug can be contacted via email at Doug.a.Wildman[at]gmail.com.

Learn Over Lunch with Tree Fresno – Recording Now Available

Megan Dukett — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:39:10 +0000

Learn Over Lunch with Tree Fresno was hosted over Zoom on August 9, 2023. Tree Fresno presented on their “Green Team Youth Ambassador Program” — an urban forest workforce development program they created in partnership with the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce.

Speakers

Mona Nyandoro Cummings, MPA, CEO of Tree Fresno
Terry Meyers, Program Manager of the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
Roger Brown, a Tree Fresno Board of Director and graduate of the Green Team Youth Ambassador Program

Learn Over Lunch Slide Deck

About Learn Over Lunch

Learn Over Lunch is a California ReLeaf Network Member program designed to provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities among our 75+ urban forest nonprofits and community groups. Learn more about our 2023 Learn Over Lunch Series and register for upcoming programs.

Upcoming Webinar: Budgeting for Tree Care Success – September 13th at 11 a.m.

Megan Dukett — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:29:26 +0000

Budgeting for Tree Care Success

Guest Speaker: Doug Wildman

Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Cost: FREE

Webinar Description:

Don’t short-change your tree-planting program! Learn how to budget for the success of your upcoming grant proposal or your new or existing tree-planting program. Join Doug Wildman on September 13th at 11 a.m. to learn best practices for creating a clearly defined budget based on site conditions, including planning for replacement needs and ongoing tree care and maintenance.

About Our Guest Speaker Doug Wildman Graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Landscape Architecture, Doug holds a Landscape Architecture license, an ISA Arborist Certification, and the Urban Forester Certification. He is also a Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Design Professional. Doug has served on the executive board of the California Urban Forest Council including as President. He Co-Chaired the combined ReLeaf/CaUFC annual conference and Co-Chaired the Urban Wood Utilization Conference. Doug served on the board of the Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and was board president in fiscal year 2021-2022. Doug worked for 20 years with a non-profit tree planting organization in San Francisco on programs to improve San Francisco’s urban forest and to help bond neighborhoods through community-based urban forestry. Currently, Doug works as a consulting arborist and landscape architect in the SF Bay Area. Doug utilizes his environmental & arboricultural background in his designs, which range from large-scale residential to commercial office parks and from community-based design to single-client collaboration. Doug can be contacted via email at Doug.a.Wildman[at]gmail.com.

2023 Network Retreat Presentation Recordings

Megan Dukett — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:48:21 +0000

We had a tree-mendous time at our 2023 ReLeaf Network Retreat in Sacramento! Below are all our presentation recordings from the Network Retreat. We hope you will find these presentations to be a useful resource.

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Keynote Presentation – Justice in the Trees

Speaker: Wanda Stewart, Executive Director, Common Vision

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Presentation Description: While we all recognize the need to plant trees and grow environmental awareness in urban environments, we must grow our individual awarenesses and abilities to embrace the diversity of experiences and engage across culture. Through a sharing of Wanda’s real world stories from “the ‘hood” and beyond, this is an opportunity for reflection on how we can all work – individually and together – to cultivate a world that thrives for all.

A Resilient Community: Growing Equitable Tree Canopy and Youth Leadership in Watsonville

Speaker: Jonathan Pilch, Executive Director, & Yesenia Jimenez, Education and Restoration Specialist, Watsonville Wetlands Watch

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Presentation Description: When Watsonville Wetlands Watch began the Watsonville Community Forest Project in 2017, our goal was to increase urban tree canopy in the City of Watsonville from 7% to 30%. Since this time, we have refined our canopy goals and methods, learned many lessons along the way, and developed an effective youth leadership and training program called the Climate Corps Leadership Institute. This presentation will share lessons learned in developing a community-based urban forest program in Watsonville, youth leadership development, and how we are connecting this work to broader goals for equity and environmental and watershed restoration and conservation.

Trees PLEASE – School & Park Tree Planting Program

Speaker: Miranda Kokoszka, Natural Resources Program Manager, Butte Environmental Council

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Presentation Description: Butte Environmental Council developed the Trees PLEASE (Planting Literacy in Environmental Action & Stewardship Education) program to plant trees and engage students with hands-on learning at school campuses and parks in Butte County.The presentation will provide an overview of the program, lessons learned, as well as challenges, victories, and feedback that we have received from teachers and the community who have participated.

New Tools From the Urban Forest Ecosystem Institute

Speakers: Dr. Matt Ritter, Dr. Jenn Yost, Dr. Natalie Love, Graduate Student Camille Pawlak of The Urban Forest Ecosystem Institute at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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Presentation Description: The Urban Forest Ecosystem Institute at Cal Poly has developed several tools for cataloging and understanding California’s urban forest, including the California Urban Forest Inventory, a collection of 7 million tree data points taken by arborists, the Tree Detector, which has predicted locations for every urban tree in California, and a set of range maps for California’s native trees. In this talk, we describe each of these data sources, how they can be used to describe and manage California’s urban forests, patterns in urban trees across the state, and how the data can be accessed.

Urban Wood: Waste to Wonder

Speaker: Jennifer Szeliga, Director of Operations, Sacramento Tree Foundation

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Presentation Description: This presentation will explore the fate of urban trees after they are removed. Typically, the majority are sent to landfills, with only a small percentage repurposed for mulch, firewood or biofuel; however, there are alternatives. By salvaging the logs from removed trees, we can transform them into useful lumber, giving them a new lease on life and continuing to provide benefits to our communities. The presentation will discuss opportunities for salvaging urban trees and creating sustainable lumber and beautiful products.

Learning As We Grow

Speakers: Adrienne Thomas, President, and Vanessa Dean, Vice President, SistersWe Community Gardening Projects

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Presentation Description: SistersWe, based in the County of San Bernardino, was established in 2018 as the brainchild of three biological sisters who wanted to bring their community together by establishing environmentally friendly, green living spaces and community gardens and donating and planting more urban trees in their area. This presentation will discuss how SistersWe came together to build and develop their 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Learning as we grow SistersWe and trees!

CAL FIRE UCF Program Update

Speaker: Walter Passmore, State Urban Forester, CAL FIRE

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California ReLeaf Advocacy and Funding Update

Speaker: Victoria Vasquez, Grants & Public Policy Manager, California ReLeaf

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Educational Webinar Recording: Improving Your Planting Program Through Tree Health Monitoring

Megan Dukett — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:00:10 +0000

This California ReLeaf educational webinar was recorded on January 26, 2023. This webinar was designed to assist tree organizations in understanding how tree health monitoring and data collecting can help with tree species selection and avoid mistakes that can lead to repeated tree loss. If interested, you can download the slideshow Doug Wildman presented as a resource for developing your tree health data collection plan. You are also welcome to use our Excel Data Collection Spreadsheet Template, which can be customized and used to populate the Tree Health Monitoring Tracking Sheet Template using Microsoft Word’s “Mail Merge” function.

About Our Guest Speaker Doug Wildman

Graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Landscape Architecture, Doug holds a Landscape Architecture license, an ISA Arborist Certification, and the Urban Forester Certification. He is also a Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Design Professional. Doug has served on the executive board of the California Urban Forest Council including as President. He Co-Chaired the combined ReLeaf/CaUFC annual conference and Co-Chaired the Urban Wood Utilization Conference. Doug is currently serving on the board of the Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) as past president. Doug worked for 20 years with a non-profit tree planting organization in San Francisco on programs to improve San Francisco’s urban forest and to help bond neighborhoods through community-based urban forestry. Currently, Doug works as a consulting arborist and landscape architect in the SF Bay Area. Doug utilizes his environmental & arboricultural background in his designs, which range from large-scale residential to commercial office parks and from community-based design to single-client collaboration. Doug can be contacted via email at Doug.a.Wildman[at]gmail.com.

New Statewide Initiative California Schoolyard Forest System – Kick-off Webinar Recording Now Available

Megan Dukett — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:46:34 +0000

On October 4, 2022, Green Schoolyards America, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), the California Department of Education (CDE), and Ten Strands hosted an hour-long webinar to launch the California Schoolyard Forest System. This new statewide initiative seeks to increase tree canopy on public school grounds across California to directly shade and protect PreK-12 students from extreme heat and rising temperatures due to climate change. You can watch the webinar below or on YouTube.

Learn more about the initiative by visiting Green School Yard America website. For the full webinar transcript and additional resources, please visit Green School America’s blog post.

Educational Webinar Recording: Tree Care Through Establishment – How Tree Follow Up Saves Time and Reduces Loss with Guest Speaker Doug Wildman

Megan Dukett — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:19:57 +0000

This California ReLeaf educational webinar was recorded on October 5, 2022. It was designed to assist California ReLeaf grantees in developing a post-planting tree care plan to ensure the health and survival of their trees. Please watch below or click the link to watch it on our YouTube Channel.

Doug Wildman – Speaker Biography: Graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1987 with a degree in Landscape Architecture, Doug later earned his license as a Landscape Architect in California in 1990, arborist certification through the ISA in 2001, and his Urban Forester Certification through California Urban Forest Council (CaUFC) in 2007. In 2013 he became a Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Design Professional. Doug served on the executive board of CaUFC from 2005-2013 and was President in 2008. Co-Chair of the CaUFC’s annual conference in 2007 and Co-Chair of the Urban Wood Utilization Conference also in San Francisco in 2011. Doug is currently serving on the board of the Western Chapter, International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) as past president. After twenty years of working with Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) in San Francisco, planning, budgeting, coordinating, writing grants, and training staff for programs to improve San Francisco’s urban forest and to help bond neighborhoods through community-based urban forestry, Doug currently works as a consulting arborist and landscape architect in the SF Bay Area. Doug utilizes his environmental & arboricultural background in all his designs, benefitting from the wide variety of design experiences from large-scale residential to commercial office parks and from community-based design to single-client collaboration.

Graphic Design Webinar Recording

California ReLeaf — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 23:16:16 +0000

California ReLeaf’s Grants and Communications Program Manager hosted a webinar about some best practices in graphic design. Watch to learn how some small fixes can make a big difference in your flyers, reports, graphics, and more!