| Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals
Monthly Digest April 2025 |
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In this edition -
ANREP JoE, PILD and ELC representatives needed
- Congratulations 2025 ANREP award winners!
- 2025 ANREP Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony
- JCEP Excellence in Extension Engagement Award
- Natural Resources Extension Education Foundation trustee and treasurer opportunities
- 2025 ANREP Webinar Series continues
- New climate change resources
- Using demonstration sites for Extension outreach
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2025 ANREP Gold Award Winner: Landscape University Annual Webinar Series
- New postings on the ANREP jobs board
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Urgent request
ANREP JoE, PILD and ELC representatives needed! The ANREP Board needs volunteers for three key leadership roles: -
ANREP's representatives on the Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP) Public Issues Leadership Development Conference (PILD) planning committee. This role involves monthly online planning committee meetings and helping out with with other conference tasks, if you attend. Two year term.
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ANREP's representative on the JCEP Extension Leadership Conference committee (ELC). This role also involves monthly online planning committee meetings and helping out with other conference tasks, if you attend. Two year term.
- ANREP's representative on the Journal of Extension (JoE) board of directors. This role involves participation in twice-yearly board of directors meetings. Three year term.
These positions begin in May. ANREP will reimburse the conference registration fee for ANREP representatives to the PILD and ELC planning committees who decide to attend the conference. ANREP pays travel expenses for the JoE representative participation in face-to-face board of directors meetings. All of these positions are important, are not a huge time commitment and are a great way to get involved nationally and build your CV! Please consider these opportunities. If you are interested or want to learn more, please contact ANREP President Kevin Zobrist. |
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| Congratulations 2025 ANREP Awards Program Winners!
Congratulations once again to the 2025 winners! 76 nominations were received this year. As usual, the submissions were excellent. The Awards Committee and member judges worked hard to evaluate and choose the recipients for outstanding educational materials and outstanding achievement.
Award recipients will be recognized during the ANREP Online Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 21 at 3:00 pm Eastern.
Two forms of the award recipient publication are now available: A short version and long version (including nomination abstracts). |
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2025 ANREP Annual Online Meeting and Awards Ceremony Wednesday, May 21
3:00 pm Eastern |
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Keynote Presentation From “Best Kept Secret” to Spotlight: the Discover Alabama Extension Campaign Mike Clardy Director for Communications, Strategic Marketing, and Client Relations
Alabama Cooperative Extension System Auburn University | | Join ANREP members via Zoom for this special event. Hear updates about your association and recognize the accomplishments of your peers from around the nation.
Learn from Mike Clardy how Alabama Extension launched a successful campaign to promote its work through a multi-prong approach. Extension personnel across the country often discuss how to raise the visibility of Extension and understanding of their work throughout their states. This presentation will include an overview of the campaign, impact results, lessons learned and ideas that are relevant to both your state and individual Extension programming. |
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JCEP Excellence in Extension Engagement Award
The Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP) “Excellence in Extension Engagement Award” nomination period is open through May 31, 2025.
What is the Excellence in Extension Engagement Award?
This award recognizes high quality, evidence-based Extension work that has documented outstanding outcomes and impacts with clientele and strengthens the Extension profession. The selection committee considers individual or team applicants that documents an engagement program that is: local needs driven, grounded in scholarly practice, adequately evaluated, adopted beyond the initial audience or geographic region, strengthening professionals within or across states, and demonstrating innovation that brings something new to Extension professionals. Applicants must have an extension appointment and belong to a JCEP organization (like ANREP).
Full details may be found here. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m., submitter’s time, May 31, 2025.
First place receives a $750 award. The winner will be an invited speaker at the Extension Leadership Conference (ELC) in Savannah, Georgia, February 4-5, 2026 (ELC registration waived).
Honorable mention receives: $250 award and ELC registration waived. Honorable mention awardees may be invited to speak at ELC at the planning committee’s discretion. |
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Natural Resources Extension Education Foundation trustee and treasurer opportunities
The Natural Resource Extension Education Foundation (NREEF) is seeking individuals who would be interested in becoming a trustee serving a two year term. Trustees participate monthly Zoom calls and help the organization with its mission to support Extension natural resource and environmental professionals to deliver innovative and impactful programs.
NREEF is also looking for a volunteer to serve as the organization's treasurer. This individual is a non-voting member of the board of trustees and responsible for managing NREEF's donations and disbursements, and financial records. It takes a couple of hours a month to fulfil the treasurer's tasks. A great opportunity for an ANREP member who would like to gain experience in this type of role. Interested? Contact Sanford Smith, NREEF President |
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Upcoming professional development opportunities |
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2025 ANREP Webinar Series - Two presentations remaining
Reaching Your Target Audience & Providing Innovative Programs
Next webinar Radio Success with Marine Science Minute Savanna Barry, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station in Cedar Key, Florida
Ana Zangroniz, University of Florida IFAS Extension Monday, Apr 28, 2025 3:00 pm
Join expert speakers as they share contemporary tools and techniques for enhancing media communication and delivering novel programs. Knowledge gained can be applied to various fields, initiatives, and organizations. Each 30-minute interactive live webinar awards one door prize. See previously recorded webinars in this series, too. |
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| Resource Exchange
New climate change resources
By Scott Hershberger University of Wisconsin - Madison
The world of forest carbon and carbon credit markets is complex and rapidly changing. To help woodland owners, foresters, and Extension professionals understand how forests store carbon and how carbon programs work, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension and the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts have created a series of webpages and printable fact sheets. They explain how forest carbon is measured, define important terms related to carbon markets, and give an overview of two forest carbon programs available to small-to-medium acreage landowners.
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| Using demonstration sites for Extension outreach: Making a splash with green stormwater infrastructure practices |
By Martin Wunderly University of Georgia Sometimes classroom learning just doesn't compare to the great outdoors. But in Extension, finding a site for teaching programs hands-on can be complicated. |
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2025 ANREP Gold Award Winner Landscape University Annual Webinar Series |
Morgan Pinkerton, University of Florida/IFAS Extension Seminole County; Hannah Eason, University of Florida/IFAS Extension Orange County; Brooke Moffis, University of Florida/IFAS Extension Lake County
In Florida, the nursery and landscape industries generate $25.4 billion in sales and support 242,000 jobs annually. Professionals must obtain state pesticide licenses and earn continuing education units (CEUs) to apply pesticides and COVID-19 prompted a need for innovative CEU opportunities. Landscape University, a six-week annual webinar series for license holders, is held annually since 2021 via Zoom. It has featured topics like pollinators,pruning trees, palms, agroecology, composting, weed management, and more. Thus far, the program has engaged 860 live participants with 590 CEUs issued (150 views on YouTube). Postwebinar surveys showed 92.9% increased their knowledge, and 6-month follow-up surveys demonstrated 90.4% adopted at least one learned practice since attending the webinars (i.e. properly identify pests, rotate modes of action, etc.).
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