Tahoe Production House recently provided event support for the Lake Tahoe Community College’s hosted Forestry Education and Workforce Development Summit. LTCC reached out because they needed event support of audio and visual services.
The return of live in-person events means thinking of all the classic event needs we’ve always known, in addition to new demands for hybrid and virtual solutions. We have options that not only keep you and your audience connected, but accelerate your Brand and help you fulfill your mission.
For the event, we set up a bank of 4 speakers that ran the length of the room to be sure that everyone could be heard. We also made sure that the microphones could handle being walked around the room and lasted all day! We also set up 2 large LED Screens in the room to display a Power Point Presentation, as well as provide video playback for the LIVE Zoom In from the keynote speaker, Wade Crowfoot, of the California Natural Resources Agency.
ABOUT LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORESTRY PROGRAM:
Lake Tahoe Community College is developing a Forestry Education and Job Placement program to increase the skilled workforce urgently needed to accelerate the pace of forest treatments and the number of structures protected from wildfire in our region.
The Forestry program will offer stackable certificates, including an Employable Skills Certificate, a higher-unit Certificate of Achievement, and an Associate of Science (AS) degree designed to take advantage of transfer pathways to a four-year degree. The curriculum for this new academic program is under construction, and initial program offerings are tentatively scheduled to launch sometime in the 2021-22 academic year. LTCC will work in partnership with other community colleges offering courses in this discipline to standardize curriculum and establish clear entry points and regional career pathways.
LTCC is coordinating with the California Board of Forestry’s Professional Foresters Examining Committee to align the program with Registered Professional Forester licensing requirements. LTCC will also explore possible accreditation from the Society of American Foresters.
This program will qualify students for entry-level federal jobs in pay grade scales 3–7 and CAL FIRE entry-level positions such as Forestry Tech, Forestry Assistant 1, and the Forestry Technician/Assistant Series. This will bring in the skilled workforce needed to support the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (TFFT) in achieving its five-year goal to treat an additional 22,000 acres in the wildland-urban interface (completing all initial treatments), while helping residents and businesses achieve nearly 100 percent compliance with defensible space requirements.
The program is being funded by a $480,000 award from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as part of the California Climate Investments Program and a $351,000 grant from the California Tahoe Conservancy.
