Major Events

About Major Events

The Yale Forest Forum organizes major events, as part of a series or standalone, to amplify voices and topics that are salient to today’s forests and people.

Past Events

Yale Forest Forum: 'Defending Indigenous Rights and Territories to Protect the Amazon and Climate' with Leila Salazar-Lopes, Executive Director of Amazon Watch

Yale Forest Forum: 'Forestry in Connecticut: a 35-Year and 20-Year Perspective,' with Chris Donnelly (B.S., '75 and M.F.S., '85), Urban Forester at CT DEEP

Yale Forest Forum: 'It Takes a Community - Managing CT's Woodlands with Birds in Mind' with Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe, Bird Conservation Manager for Audubon Connecticut

Yale Forest Forum: 'Community Forests: So Much More than Conservation' with Julie Renaud Evans, Director of Forestry at Northern Forest Center

Yale Forest Forum: 'Accelerating Forest Restoration in Northern Arizona' with Neil Chapman, Preserve Manager at The Nature Conservancy

Yale Forest Forum: 'Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape' with Jill Jonnes, Author

Yale Forest Forum: 'Poetry & Politics in Forests and Other Wild Places' with David K. Leff, former Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

Yale Forest Forum: 'Forest Health in Eastern National Parks: Current Condition and Future Concerns' with Kate Miller, Forest Ecologist and Acadia National Park

Yale Forest Forum: 'Transforming New Haven's Street Trees: Ten Years On' with Zeb and Ted Esselstyn, Co-founders of City Bench

Yale Forest Forum: 'Twilight of the Hemlock and Beeches' with Tim Palmer, Author of Twilight of the Hemlock and Beeches