Community science is a powerful tool and one that our guest, Joey Hulbert, is utilizing it in his Forest Health Watch Program.  Over the last several years, Dr. Hulbert has empowered "citizen scientists" to help track a number of forest health concerns in Washington State, including western redcedar dieback.  In this episode, we dig into the roots of the program, it's progress, and what the future holds with our co-host, Dr. Molly Darr, joining as co-director.

To contribute to the western redcedar dieback program, go to: https://foresthealth.org/map

To recommend future forest health monitoring projects, go to: 
 https://foresthealth.org/projects/

FOP 025:  Protecting Forests through Community Science with Dr. Joey Hulbert

The Forest Overstory is a forestry based podcast produced by Washington State University Extension Foresters  Patrick Shults and Kevin Zobrist. The mission of this show is to investigate topics related to forestry, forest management, natural resources, ecosystem services and the environment, wildlife, and many other topics related to the outdoors, to provide insight and education to small forest landowners and forest managers.

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