Seminars
Upcoming
Dr. Chris Barton
Bringing Back the Forest: Ecological Restoration Provides Opportunities for Mining Regions of the World
Thursday, September 25 @ Davis Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)
Refreshments at 6:00pm, Lecture at 7:00pm
Urban Forest Initiative is excited to be joined for our September Seminar by Dr. Chris Barton, Professor of Forest Hydrology & Watershed Management at UK. Dr. Barton also the Founder & President of Green Forests Work, an organization that works throughout Appalachia, as well as Australia, to restore formerly mined sites. As the organization's website says, since 2009 Green Forests Work has planted more than 7.5 million trees on over 15,000 acres.
Join us at the Davis Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.) on the UK campus for light refreshments at 6:00pm, and Dr. Barton's lecture at 7:00pm, followed by Q&A.
Urban Forest Initiative would like to thank the following sponsors:
Past seminars
UFI intern talking with seminar attendees
"Happy 10th Anniversary UFI" cake
Dr. Tallamy giving his talk
UFI has been hosting seminars for 10 years now!
Doug Tallamy, Native Plants and Pollinators, Sep. 2015
Tom Kimmerer, Big Urban Trees, Sep. 2016
Charlie Nilon, Urban Wildlife and Urban Trees, Nov. 2016
Nina Bassuk, Tree Diversity and Best Practices, Apr. 2017
Susan Day, Urban Soils and Urban Trees, Nov. 2017
Dan Potter, Pollinator Conservation, Jan. 2018
Margaret Carreiro, Urban Ecology
Jill Jonnes, A Natural History of Trees and People in America’s Cities, Apr. 2018
Rupert Bentley Walls, Growing Trees in Hackney, London, England, Sep. 2018
Chris Chandler, Green Heart Louisville, Jan. 2019
Florence Williams, The Nature Fix, Apr. 2019
Cindi Sullivan, Tree Planting in Louisville, Feb. 2020
Leslie Brandt, Climate Change and Forest Management, Apr. 2020
Karen Cappiella, Urban Trees and Stormwater, Mar. 2021
Jacob Muller, Climate Resiliency, Feb. 2023
Greg Abernathy, Landscape Conservation, Nov. 2023
Bob Staggenborg, Nature Guys, Feb. 2024
Casey Clapp, Completely Arbortrary, Apr. 2024
Doug Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope, Dec. 2024
