Register (save your spot by June 17)

June 20, 2025 (rain date June 21)
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET (tour)
4:30 p.m.  ET (celebration social)

Warren, Maine (exact location will be shared with registrants) 
Camping is available for those traveling a long distance.

This event is part of the Forest Stewards Guild’s 30th anniversary celebration event series and will occur rain or shine.

3 SAF category 1 CFE hours are approved for this event.

Guild member Barrie Brusila is hosting a field tour on land she and her family have stewarded for more than 35 years! The tour will include site visits and discussion about:

1. decades of selection harvesting in an oak-pine forest,
2. invasives control work,
3. wildlife habitat improvement projects, and
4. a barn built with lumber from the land.

Barrie will invite co-leads to share their expertise and perspectives from wildlife biology, entomology and pathology, and more. This includes Joe Wiley, a long-time Guild member and retired wildlife biologist, who will discuss wildlife topics.

Draft agenda highlights:

• 1-1:30  Welcome and introductions
• 1:30-2:00  Walk into woods, history of woodlot and management (Barrie Brusila, Consultant Forester, Mid-Maine Forestry)
• 2:00-2:45  Oak-pine silviculture (Nicole Rogers, Landowner Assistance Forester, Maine Forest Service)
• 2:45-3:30  Oak-pine silviculture continued, hemlock silviculture (Laura Kenefic, Supervisory Forest Researcher, US Forest Service Northeast Forest Experiment Station)
• 3:30-4:30 Wildlife management (Joe Wiley, retired Wildlife Biologist, Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands)
• 4:30 – 6:30+: Guild Gathering social with food ($15)! (NA drinks provided, bring your own otherwise)

Food:

Pizza and salad will be provided. If you wish to partake, please indicate that in registration. A fee will be included to help with the cost.

Accessibility notes:

• Terrain will be rolling.
• There will likely be ticks.
• We will walk about up to 1.5 miles.
• We will go rain or shine, but in case of dangerous weather, please note the rain date.
• Bathrooms and water available at the house, though not during the walk.