Continuing Education Video Training Series:

The Green Tacoma Partnership and the Green Seattle Partnership are creating five (5) mini video trainings to continually provide new educational opportunities for volunteers.  The five topics for the videos are basic planting techniques, volunteer management, plant propagation – live stakes, invasive removal, and monitoring protocols.   Utilizing streaming video technology developed at the University of Washington, the materials and lecture portions of the trainings will be made available digitally, for easier access by the Forest and Habitat Stewards.

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Agency Trainings:

Departments responsible for restoration and maintenance of forested natural areas and habitat have identified and requested the need for advanced training opportunities for City staff and agency partners.  The Green Tacoma Partnership has created a training series that consists of four trainings to be held in November and December 2011. Training topics will include:  The 21^st Century Volunteer, Noxious Weeds Identification, Native Plant Identification, and Exploring Effective Techniques for Dealing with Homeless Encampments. City staff, local agency partners, and outside facilitators with significant experience and expertise will lead these trainings open to City staff, agency partners, and Habitat Stewards. The trainings will allow for greater effectiveness within City agencies and better external dissemination of information to volunteers. CLICK HERE for more details on this training series including course descriptions, dates, times, locations, and how to RSVP.

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Pest Monitoring:

Thanks to all the participants who attended the pest monitoring training, Protect Your Healthy Forest Ecosystem:  Citizen Survey for Exotic Woodboring Beetles. Our expert facilitators taught 33 trainees at the November trainings about how to protect our healthy forest ecosystem by participating in a citizen survey searching for Asian longhorned beetles and other exotic forest pests. A total of 87 Forest Stewards, Habitat Stewards, local agency staff, and community volunteers have been trained in the last year. These trainings were made possible through a grant from US Forest Service, Urban and Community Forestry Program. 

Please check out the resources linked to this page on how to identify and report the presence/absence of ALB, and to view presentations from the November trainings.

Find resources for identifying and reporting ALB here.
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Central Data Portal:

CLC, in partnership with the City of Seattle, City of Tacoma, and Metro Parks Tacoma, is working with a contracted database designer to develop a centralized location for Forest and Habitat Stewards to access and submit restoration event requests, volunteer logs, work logs, and other pertinent information related to restoration and volunteer activity.