APCAW Hosts Future of Brown Ash Conference at UMaine

On October 8th and 9th, 2024, APCAW hosted over 20 speakers and panelists from Tribal Nations, Universities, Federal and State agencies, and nonprofit partners to present to a hybrid audience of over 200 people about hope and challenges surrounding brown ash protection. While the first day focused on the scientific predictions of the impact of EAB and approaches to manage ash, the second day featured Wabanaki basketmakers and Tribal Nation staff perspectives on sustaining ash. You can access the full agenda here. People from around the Northeast and beyond tuned in to our meeting, which culminated in a community dinner on Indian Island featuring brown ash log pounding, seed collection demonstrations, and trap tree demonstrations.

If you were unable to participate, we recorded the sessions and they now live on our YouTube channel.

Recordings – The recordings of each presentation, except for the Tribal Community Perspectives Panel, are available through this Future of Brown Ash YouTube playlist.

Powerpoint presentations – Unfortunately, the recorded video of our conference did not capture the speakers’ powerpoints. You can access PDFs of speakers’ powerpoint presentations here and follow along with their slides while watching the recordings.

Posters – You can access a digital copy of most of the Future of Brown Ash posters here.