Author: Ellen Crocker
Planning Unit: Forestry
Major Program: Forest Education: Health, Management, and Utilization
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Tree Week is a week celebrating all things tree-related that happens each October in communities across Kentucky. Extension agents and specialists contribute to Tree Week in many different ways, from organizing events in their communities to delivering programs to serving on the Tree Week Planning Committee. Several of these include:
Tree Week Webinar Series:
This year, as in past years, the Forestry and Natural Resources Extension Team organized a webinar series (led by Ellen Crocker) to engage people in a broad range. This series featured seven presentations by a range of speakers addressing common tree questions including:
Attendance across all webinars was 232 people (between 20 and 50 in each webinar). In a survey of webinar participants (38 responses):
Positive comments and feedback including ideas for future webinar topics and appreciation for the presentations provided.
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