MINNESOTA—Discover the central role that communities can play in driving landscape restoration and how urban forestry tools and approaches can be used in a rural setting. The Landscape Scale Community Forestry: Working across boundaries to advance forest health webinar will take place Wednesday, Aug. 11, at 1 p.m. Eastern time. 

Rural areas across the U.S. are experiencing changes that increasingly affect the vitality of their community forests. Idaho’s Wood River Valley is no different. An outdoor recreation destination, the area’s tapestry of forest and communities weaves together national, state, municipal and private lands, all of which face the threats of a changing climate, declining forest health, wildland fire, development pressure and economic inequality.

In this webinar, Lance Davisson and Harry Griffith will share the story of how community development leaders in Blaine County, Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey, and Bellevue, Idaho, came together to organize the Wood River Valley Collaborative Forest Enhancement Project. The project addresses forest health issues across land ownerships and creates sustainable solutions to the complex challenges facing the region’s forest resources.