Second National Extension Natural Resources Conference
Excellence Through Partnerships

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From Concurrent Session I: Wednesday, May 17 (8:00 - 8:30 am)
ROOM C: Building Capacity in CE for Natural Resources I

Abstract #3: Forestry: Area Specialty Advanced Training (FASAT)
David J. Moorhead, Coleman W. Dangerfield, Jr., and Bob Izlar, Warnell School of Forest Resources, The University of Georgia, Forest Resources 4-401, Athens, GA 30602; 706.542.7602; dangerfi@smokey.forestry.uga.edu


In March 1999 the School, coordinated by the Center for Forest Business, sponsored a 4-day intensive training program for 36 county extension agents with multi-county (cluster) responsibility for service and outreach educational programming in forest productivity. These 36 agents cover over 100 counties in Georgia, and will significantly raise and improve the level of forest resources service and outreach educational programming for non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners in Georgia. Over 50 of the School?s faculty and staff participated in the inaugural FASAT program. With the School leading, more than a dozen sponsors with a focus on forest resources, contributed to the funding of FASAT. The School continues FASAT this summer with five multi-district trainings held in the major physiographic regions of Georgia. The School will continue sponsorship of an annual FASAT on The University of Georgia Campus in Athens. In the paper, the following is discussed:
  • Clustering of 159 county extension offices into 55 multi-county clusters in 1998 with agent-focused areas of work responsibility.
  • School training programs in sustainable forest productivity for in-depth, multi-day, agent training in sustainable forest productivity, followed by several multi-district workshops during the year.
  • The FASAT committee developed a 4-day in-depth training program with over 50 teaching, research, and service faculty and staff involved in FASAT to compose a thoroughly integrated faculty approach.
  • FASAT agents were provided a complement of tools, and other support materials, including a resource notebook.
  • Nine additional sponsors contributed directly to FASAT support.
  • The School continued FASAT during the summer of 1999 with five multi-district trainings held in the major physiographic regions of Georgia.
  • WSFR Dean committed to annual FASAT, plus multi-district workshops during the year.
  • There will be continued evaluation and improvement for FASAT.




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