Success Story: Extension Tree Week Webinar Series, Oct 2024

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 to engage people in a broad range of tree related topics.  This series featured four presentations by a range of speakers addressing common tree questions including:

1. Tuesday, Oct 15, 12 pm ET: Caring for the Trees in Your Woodland with Billy Thomas, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension
2. Wednesday, Oct 16, 11 am ET: Identifying Kentucky’s Trees with Laurie Thomas, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension 
3. Thursday, Oct 17, 12 pm ET: Forestry Works, Kentucky – Careers in the Forest with Chad Niman, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension
4. Friday, Oct 18, 12 pm ET: Forest Tree Disease with Ellen Crocker, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension 
5. Saturday, Oct 19, 10 am ET: Bountiful Trees and Better Stream Buffers at Gardenside Park with Katherine Bullock, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension

Attendance across all webinars and in-person programs was approximately 300 people (between 20 and 65 in each webinar).