{"id":27214,"date":"2019-04-26T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=27214"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:47:26","slug":"forest-action-plan-public-listening-sessions-held-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/26\/forest-action-plan-public-listening-sessions-held-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Action Plan Public Listening Sessions Scheduled in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six Events Held in Every Region of State<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1610\/25838820865_a2d292ae2d_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Green Ridge State Forest\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/>The Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology of the University of Maryland and the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> will host six public listening sessions in May to aid in the development of Maryland Forest Service\u2019s 2020<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/SFAP.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forest Action Plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plan assesses the current state of the forest resources and lays out the strategy for addressing forestry priorities in the state. These listening sessions will allow stakeholders to provide feedback on how the plan should be structured and what it should include.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sessions are held in every region of the state, with identical information presented at each event. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All sessions are free and open to the public; registration is available at the links below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dates and locations of the listening sessions are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Western Region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 8 from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allegany College of Maryland, Continuing Education Building, Room 12\/14<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12401 Willowbrook Road, Cumberland<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=ne7awrmab&amp;oeidk=a07eg91x55093bf6b10\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/fapwmd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Central Region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 9 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urbana Regional Library, Anthony M. Natelli Community Room<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9020 Amelung St., Frederick<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eg91xqdmdd1e6444&amp;llr=ne7awrmab\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/fapcmdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Annapolis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 13 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Room C-1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">580 Taylor Ave., Annapolis<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eg91yjjn7b832147&amp;llr=ne7awrmab\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/fapcmda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Lower Eastern Shore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ward Museum of Wildfowl, Legacy Center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">909 South Schumaker Drive, Salisbury<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eg91zc2f9801c71b&amp;llr=ne7awrmab\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/faples<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Middle\/Upper Eastern Shore<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 15 from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9 a.m. to 12 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chesapeake College, Room HPAC-127<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1000 College Circle, Wye Mills<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eg91yjxr5893591a&amp;llr=ne7awrmab\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/fapues<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Southern Region<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 20, 2019 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Potomac Branch Library, Potomac Meeting Room<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3225 Ruth B. Swann Drive, Indian Head<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=ne7awrmab&amp;oeidk=a07eg91zsmifc59101c\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go.umd.edu\/fapsmd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Events Held in Every Region of State The Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology of the University of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources will host six public listening sessions in May to aid in the development of Maryland Forest Service\u2019s 2020 Forest Action Plan. The plan assesses the current state of<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/26\/forest-action-plan-public-listening-sessions-held-in-may\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[4946,4964,3154],"class_list":["post-27214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-forest","tag-forest-action-plan","tag-university-of-maryland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27217,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}