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SUMMARY:Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) program for citizen scienti
 sts and land managers
DESCRIPTION:Join Us!Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) program for cit
 izen scientists and land managers\nWHEN: September 25, 1pm-4pm, WHERE
 : Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14850
 , RSVP by: September 22 to mosher@hws.edu- space is limited, reserve 
 your seat today! More Information? Contact Hilary Mosher, Coordinator
 , Finger Lakes PRISM- mosher@hws.edu\nThis program is sponsored by the
  Finger Lakes PRISM and Cornell Botanic Gardens\nMonitoring and Managi
 ng Ash (MaMA) is an innovative ash conservation and emerald ash borer 
 (EAB) mitigation program created and directed by the Ecological Resear
 ch Institute (ERI), in close consultation with the US Forest Service. 
 It provides specific actions for each stage of EAB invasion, including
  pre-invasion. These include participating in MaMA’s land-manager an
 d citizen-science projects enabling detection of “lingering ash”, 
 naturally occurring trees that stay healthy even when the nearby trees
  around them have died from EAB. Our partners at the US Forest Service
  use lingering ash to yield EAB-resistant lines of native ash, with th
 ese trees offering the best hope for ash conservation and restoration.
 \nUsing the MaMA Ash/EAB Surveys citizen science/land manager project 
 to report sites where you have or have not detected signs of EAB infes
 tation. This project, hosted on the citizen science platform Anecdata.
 org, is open to public participation and tracks EAB’s spread and eff
 ects in real time. Because knowing where EAB has not yet appeared is i
 mportant in prioritizing management, both EAB presence and absence rep
 orts are needed.\nSetting up an ash mortality monitoring plot as part 
 of the MaMA Monitoring Plot Network.  This rapidly growing network co
 mprises sites where land managers or citizen scientists designate part
 icular trees for annual reporting of those killed by EAB. The data tha
 t you upload via Anecdata.org are used by ERI to determine which areas
  are ready to be searched for lingering ash. Participation in this pro
 ject requires attending a single-session MaMA training workshop.   \
 nSearching for and reporting lingering ash using the MaMA Lingering As
 h Search project. Once the appropriate ash mortality threshold has bee
 n reached in an area, ERI will notify citizen scientists and land mana
 gers to search for lingering ash there.  The locations of lingering a
 sh can then be reported via the MaMA Lingering Ash Search project, als
 o hosted by Anecdata.org. Participation in this project requires atten
 ding a single-session MaMA training workshop.  \nUsing the MaMA Pote
 ntial Lingering Ash Toolkit to protect trees that might hold the key t
 o ash conservation. It can take years from the onset of EAB infestatio
 n for an area to reach an ash mortality threshold triggering the local
  search for lingering ash. However, before these thresholds are met, y
 ou may notice trees that are unaffected by EAB, even when those around
  them are dying. Our toolkit will help you protect these potentially i
 mportant trees from being cut down.\nEmploying the MaMA decision tree 
 to decide between cutting trees vs. treating trees vs. leaving trees f
 or mortality monitoring and lingering ash detection. h.\n\nFor more in
 formation visit https://cornellforestconnect.ning.com/events/monitorin
 g-and-managing-ash-mama-program-for-citizen-scientists
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20180925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20180925T160000
CATEGORIES:workshop
LOCATION:Cornell Botanic Gardens,
WEBSITE:
URL:
CONTACT:3157814385
ORGANIZER;CN="Hilary Mosher":https://cornellforestconnect.ning.com/pro
 file/HilaryMosher
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Hilary M
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