{"id":162,"date":"2023-10-13T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-08-16T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:46:38","slug":"1st-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Update 10\/16: Advisory Committee Kickoff Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>October 16th: <\/strong>Our Research and consultant teams convened and held our first meeting with the advisory committee to discuss and obtain input on outreach efforts, definitions, and survey tool questions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Key highlights:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Our team considered expanding the advisory committee to include a specialist on recreation, with some possible candidates mentioned.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Our team considered outreach efforts, the difficulties that could be encountered in making contact with forest managers, and ways to spread information to interested parties.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The definition of &#8220;town forest&#8221; was discussed, to clarify which forests that should be included in the census. The general consensus was that community forests with dedicated resources to private land management should be excluded.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Possible survey questions were brainstormed, with consideration given to questions on land cover, economic benefits, and recreation.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Looking forward<\/strong>: Our team will continue to work on a detailed project schedule and establish meeting dates. The next meeting of the advisory committee will be around November 15th, to review census questions, and review the tentative list of forests.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; October 16th: Our Research and consultant teams convened and held our first meeting with the advisory committee to discuss and obtain input on outreach efforts, definitions, and survey tool questions. Key highlights: Looking forward: Our team will continue to work on a detailed project schedule and establish meeting dates. The next meeting of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update 10\/16: Advisory Committee Kickoff Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8925,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/files\/2023\/10\/Mount-Peg-trail-head-May-2024-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/files\/2023\/10\/Mount-Peg-trail-head-May-2024-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"hluettge","author_link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/?author=8925"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/vermonttownforestcensus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}