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SUMMARY:Forestry for Maine Birds Workshop
DESCRIPTION:photo credit L Suomi-Lecker/Somerset SWCD \nTo Register: call 474-8323 or email somersetswcd.outreach@gmail.com. (no charge\, but pre-registration is required and space is limited) \n9:00 a.m. – Noon ET\nSaturday\, June 5\, 2021 \nLocation: Robbin’s Hill Scenic Overlook\, Solon\, ME \nCategory 1 CFE credits are pending. \nThe Forestry for Maine Birds (FFMB) approach integrates bird conservation into forest management and planning. Participants in this outdoor workshop will learn how to: \n\nImprove habitat for priority forest birds and a variety of other wildlife species\nTake care of their woodlands\nWork with other forest management goals\nEnhance the value and enjoyment of Maine woodlands for many generations to come\n\nInstructors: Andy Schultz\, Outreach Forester with Maine Forest Service; Sally Stockwell\, Director of Conservation at Maine Audubon; and Logan Johnson of Forest Stewards Guild. \nHosted by Somerset County SWCD in partnership with Old Canada Road\, Maine Forest Service\, Maine Audubon\, Forest Stewards Guild\, and Maine Woodland Owners – Upper Kennebec Valley Chapter.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/forestry-for-maine-birds-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Northeast
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210610T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210610T140000
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SUMMARY:Fire Breaks: Fire Suppression\, the "Light-Burning" Controversy\, and the Return of Indigenous Flames (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register \nThursday\, June 10\, 2021\n1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET \nHistorian Char Miller’s talk “Fire Breaks” probes the varied forces advocating the suppression of wildfire in the United States\, with a focus on California’s 250-year-long experience with this controversial effort to snuff out blazes\, both wild and managed. Using primary sources dating back to the Spanish settler-colonial initiatives to tamp down the Indigenous Nations’ longstanding use of fire to manage their lands\, Miller’s talk will also draw on subsequent and controversial efforts by California and the U.S. Forest Service to eradicate fire from the state’s public lands. This so-called “light burning” controversy erupted in the first decades of the twentieth century and has had profound implications for Indigenous communities for whom fire was\, and remains\, an essential tool. It has also had a clear impact on the diverse ecosystems that fire had helped nurture and for the land-management agencies at the state and federal level. The talk concludes with a discussion of the slow return of indigenous flames to forests\, woodlands\, and grasslands. \nOnce feared\, fire has been embraced\, even if only partially\, as a vital force in contemporary forest management. Of late\, a reckoning has compelled agencies and communities to acknowledge historic and contemporary harms pressed upon Indigenous peoples and to develop social policies that amplify Indigenous knowledge in a way that hitherto settler-colonial society has failed to do. \nChar Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. He is author most recently of Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents and America’s Great National Forests\, Wildernesses\, and Grasslands\, as well as coeditor of Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist in the Arena. Forthcoming in August 2021 is West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement\, a portion of which is previewed in “Reclamation Project: Rediscovering W. W. Ashe and the Origins of Watershed Stewardship\,” Forest History Today\, Spring/Fall 2020. \nFunding for this lecture is provided by the Forest History Society’s Lynn W. Day Endowment.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/fire-breaks-fire-suppression-the-light-burning-controversy-and-the-return-of-indigenous-flames-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Intermountain West,Lake States,Northeast,Pacific Northwest,Southeast,Southwest,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210616T170000
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SUMMARY:Northern Hardwood Conference 2021 (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nConference title: Bridging Science and Management for the Future\nJune 15 – 16\, 2021 \nFull conference details will be online as they are available \nNorthern hardwood forests occupy millions of acres in the eastern United States and Canada\, representing one of the most economically important and ecologically diverse forests in eastern North America. Northern hardwood silviculture is diverse and complex as well and has been the focus of extensive research for over 80 years. Today\, managers continue to seek innovative sustainable management solutions to address the expanding challenges facing this forest type\, including serious threats such as invasive species\, inadequate tree regeneration and shifts in composition\, degraded timber quality\, herbivory\, climate change\, nitrogen deposition\, and forest fragmentation. \nThe 2021 Northern Hardwood Conference (NHC) will give researchers\, academicians\, and forest managers from across the range a forum to learn\, share\, and discuss cutting edge science and innovative management practices to sustain healthy and productive northern hardwood forests. \nThe Northern Hardwood Conference was initiated by a diverse group of professionals wishing to facilitate collaboration across the northern hardwood range. A major northern hardwood conference has not been held in the Lake States in over 30 years\, and rarely has there been an opportunity for researchers and forest managers from across the range to compare notes. In addition\, we hope to establish the Northern Hardwood Conference as a valuable forum to be held on a biennial basis throughout the eastern United States and Canada.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/northern-hardwood-conference-2021-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Lake States,Northeast,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Strategic Wood Addition Training for Foresters/Professionals
DESCRIPTION:Registration required; please contact forestry@northwoodscenter.org or call (802)723-6551 extension 302. Space is limited. \nFriday\, June 25\, 2021\n9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET \nLocation: NorthWoods Stewardship Center (154 Leadership Dr\, East Charleston VT). Field visits to follow; please be prepared to drive yourself to the sites in the afternoon (locations/directions will be provided) \nCost: Free (sponsored by Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept\, Vermont Dept of Environmental Conservation\, Trout Unlimited\, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation) \nSAF Continuing Education Credits: 6.0 Category 1 CFE \nThe NorthWoods Stewardship Center will be hosting a training for foresters and other land management professionals to learn about Strategic Wood Additions for in-stream habitat restoration. This event is hosted in partnership with Trout Unlimited\, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department\, and Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Participants will gain a basic understanding of stream geomorphology\, the strategic wood addition management concept\, project planning considerations\, and implementation techniques. Field visits in the afternoon will be used to demonstrate the practices discussed. Upon completing the training\, participants will have a basic knowledge and resources for implementing wood addition projects with landowners/clients or in forests they manage. \nLead instructors are Jud Kratzer (VT FWD\, author of the Vermont Strategic Wood Addition Handbook) and Staci Pomeroy (VT DEC) with other guest speakers. \nPlease bring your own bag lunch and be prepared for an afternoon in the field
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/strategic-wood-addition-training-for-foresters-professionals/
CATEGORIES:Northeast
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210629T130000
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SUMMARY:Bat Responses to Silvicultural Treatments (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register (you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting) \nJune 29\, 2021\n1:00 – 2:00 pm ET \nApproval pending for 1\, Category 1 CFE from SAF. \nAgenda includes one 45-minute presentation with time for questions at the end. \nResearchers have been studying bat responses to silvicultural treatments since the mid-1980s\, but research on the effects of silviculture on bats has increased greatly over the past decade. This webinar will present a synthesis of this research which includes the effects of regeneration harvests\, thinning\, gap formation\, plantation forestry\, and prescribed fire on bats. Dr. Loeb will also present the results of a recent review which compares the effects of prescribed fire and wildfire on bats. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the major gaps in our knowledge and where our research efforts need to be concentrated in the future. \n 
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/bat-responses-to-silvicultural-treatments-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Intermountain West,Lake States,Northeast,Southeast,Southwest,Webinar
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