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Originally Posted by treeseer  hope the move gets moving for you, Mario. Portland has a lot offer; it'd be neat to be able to ski mt hood and hike the rocky coast all in the same day. ISA did good picking Portland for the 2012 conference, so we can recover from the Brisbane debacle in 2011. 
I love living in the country and still being less than a half hour from Duke, UNC and NCSU. Yeah live learning is best, we have outside demos at ncsu every couple of months; next one is in 8 days.
Next tuesday this guy www.kingdomofffungi.com is speaking at unc; i asked him to put in all he had on wood decayers. |
Portland (or examples you mentioned) have other opportunities to learn to, without enrollment - volunteer things.
There is the Hoyt Arboretum, The World Forestry Center (think that's the name now), the Rhododendron test garden and the Oregon Garden. Almost all do volunteer stuff, and there are expert people around to share stuff and work with.