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OF THE UNITED STATES<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Webinar date/time: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 8; 3:00-4:30 PM </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ET<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Duration: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.5</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> hour<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">What will you learn?<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">This webinar presents key findings from a soon-to-be published
Forest Service report entitled “Assessing Forest Sustainability in the Tropical
Islands of the United States.” The report uses the Montreal Process Criteria
and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management to assess forest conditions in
U.S. tropical islands in the Caribbean and Pacific across ecological, social,
and economic dimensions of forest sustainability.  Findings show that forest area in the U.S.
tropics has been relatively stable, but that the forests on the islands face a
number of challenges to sustainability. 
While some of these sustainability challenges are similar to those faced
by forests in the continental U.S., others are unique to the tropics in
general, or to specific regions or islands in particular.<span></span></font></span></p>

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Service<span></span></font></span></p>

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USDA Forest Service<span></span></font></span></p>

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Webinar is free.<span></span></font></span></p>

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be recorded and on the on the <a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/research/sustain/" target="_blank">USFS Sustainability
website</a> ( </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/research/sustain/">https://www.fs.fed.us/research/sustain/</a> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">)</span></p>

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