<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello, List-serve Partners: Please take a look at the following information on an upcoming i-Tree Online Workshop. Please join us if you can. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks. Dave Bloniarz, US Forest Service</div><br class="">*****************************************************************************<br class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class="">Join Us for Another i-Tree Online Session<br class=""></b>Thursday, May 24th - 'Strengthening Your Roots with i-Tree’</div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class="">Please join us for the May 2018 i-Tree Workshop: Strengthening Your Roots with i-Tree. This session will take a look at how i-Tree can be harnessed for community engagement. We’ll hear from the team who works with ReGreen Springfield to bring the Citizen Science Academy program to Western Massachusetts as a way to share greening skills for urban neighborhoods, and advocate for urban forest restoration through education.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The program begins at 1:00 PM (Eastern), on Thursday, May 24, 2018.<br class=""></b><br class=""><b class="">PRE-REGISTRATION is required for this session in order to provide the most streamlined user experience. To register, please visit <a href="https://goo.gl/s2LSaM" class="">https://goo.gl/s2LSaM</a></b><br class=""><br class="">About i-Tree: i-Tree allows any community to conduct and analyze sample or compete street tree inventory data, and make estimates of the structure, function and value of these components of your urban forest. Baseline data can be used to effectively manage the resource, develop policy and set priorities. Looking at information collected on existing street trees, this software allows managers to evaluate current benefits, costs, and management needs.<br class=""><br class="">For more information on i-Tree, please visit <a href="http://www.itreetools.org/" class="">www.itreetools.org/</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-----------</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">David V. Bloniarz, Ph.D.</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Project Coordinator</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Urban Natural Resources Institute</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">USDA Forest Service</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Holdsworth Natural Resources Center</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Univ. of Massachusetts</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Amherst, MA 01003</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Phone: 413/545-3755</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Cell: 413/537-3748</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">e-mail: <a href="mailto:dbloniarz@fs.fed.us" class="">dbloniarz@fs.fed.us</a></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">web: <a href="http://www.unri.org/" class="">http://www.unri.org</a></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>