Audubon's Bird-Friendly Maple Program recognizes maple producers and sugarbush managers who commit to managing their forest for bird habitat value alongside sap production. Through this work, these land managers help improve habitat for many species of birds who depend on our forests for breeding and migratory stopover habitat, and whose populations have been declining. The Bird-Friendly Maple Program began in Vermont, has been steadily expanding into more states, and currently includes 8 sugarbushes across nearly 100 acres of forest in Connecticut. In this webinar, we will cover the basics of Bird-Friendly Maple, what ideal sugarbush habitat looks like, and how this program contributes to Audubon's overall forest work.

Rosa Goldman (she/her) is a Forest Program Senior Associate with Audubon Connecticut and New York, a regional office of the National Audubon Society. As part of Audubon's Healthy Forests team, she works with private landowners, land trusts, and state and conservation partners to advance habitat management for forest birds across Connecticut, as well as in New York's Hudson Valley. Rosa manages Audubon's Bird-Friendly Maple and Forester Training & Endorsement programs in Connecticut. She is a licensed forester in Connecticut and holds a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of the Environment.ming soon.

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Good News for Linking Habitat Conservation Across the Americas

John Hannan has worked with multiple bird conservation organizations across the Americas. Join us to see his beautiful imagery of our hemisphere’s birds and landscapes while learning about some of the key bird conservation initiatives happening right now across the Americas.

This work, being done by a wide ranging coalition, has become a core part of National Audubon’s ten-year strategy and there is a central role chapters can play in it. Together we can help build healthy and sustainable communities all along our migratory birds’ flyways, therefore protecting the same birds we work to safeguard right here in Connecticut. From massive endeavors to preserve more than 550 million acres of of coastal and wetlands habitat to community science projects you can participate in, John will present an uplifting view of bird conservation in the Americas and ways you can be part of it.

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