The Forest Service Eastern Region State, Private, and Tribal Forestry Watershed Forestry Team launched a quarterly webinar series for foresters and natural resource professionals in summer 2024. The series offers technical information on watershed forestry topics—ranging from silviculture to social science—presented by researchers and practitioners to connect land and water.

Webinar 2: Riparian Forest Buffers
October 10, 2024, 12–1 p.m. EDT

This October webinar will focus on riparian forest buffers, including the diversity of benefits they can provide and examples of how buffers have been used for watershed restoration.
• Katie Brownson (USDA Forest Service) will provide an overview of riparian forests and their benefits, including water quality, climate resilience, and flood mitigation.
• Jeremy Geist (Trout Unlimited) will discuss examples of past and ongoing projects that utilize riparian restorations to improve stream and riparian forest ecosystems and connectivity in the Great Lakes Basin.
• Craig Highfield (Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay) will discuss how the Alliance works with numerous of partners and conservation programs to implement and maintain riparian forest buffers throughout the Chesapeake watershed.