Extension Programs
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FER faculty members and students working in natural resources economics and policy areas give back to the people and communities of North Carolina in a number of ways. They contribute to several forestry extension programs, enriches environmental education outreach initiatives and act as consultants to local communities, helping them to shape their policies and establish community-based decision making processes.
In particular, our natural resources economics and policy experts contribute to the following NC State-sponsored extension and outreach programs:
FER’s Forestry & Environmental Outreach Program offers courses, workshops, conferences and seminars involving management issues for forestry and natural resource professionals on both a non-credit and continuing education credit basis. It also educates the general public, professionals, landowners, public and private land managers.
The Southern Center for Sustainable Forests, a cooperative organization comprised of FER faculty and staff, Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources. The Southern Center provides leadership for research, education and extension that promotes economically and ecologically sustainable management of forests in the South.
Extension Forestry provides technical assistance, offers educational programs for adults and children, collates and disseminates research results and offers many other useful resources to all North Carolina citizens involved in forestry, including programs centered around wildlife management. Services are provide through N.C.’s 100 County Extension Centers as well as the Cherokee Indian Reservation Center.
