Northeast
Maine Climate Resilient Forest Management Workshops – Eastern
Register (by April 19, 2024) (Note: We ask each team to bring a real-world project to set context for discussions and activities. This workshop is designed to help you customize a site-specific climate adaptation plan that complements existing management and conservation efforts. There are worksheets to submit with registration. Please see more instructions at the…
Career Call! Guild Student members join Professionals in a Virtual Gathering Circle
Register Wednesday, May 22, 2024 5:00 - 5:45 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. MT / 7:00 p.m. CT / 8:00 p.m. ET Join each other for an opportunity to: 1) meet other members, 2) hear from professionals willing to talk about their jobs, what was important to them in college, and what they wish they knew…
Stewardship opportunities: Becoming an NRCS Technical Service Provider
Register Thursday, May 30, 2024 1:00 p.m. ET Peter Hoagland- Northeast Regional TSP Coordinator, USDA-NRCS In this webinar foresters and other natural resources professionals will learn about the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Technical Service Provider (TSP) Program. Technical Service Providers (TSPs) work on behalf of private landowners and land-managers to offer conservation planning…
Virtue and The Steward’s Mind – Communicating Forestry webinar series
Register June 4, 2024 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Join Guild member Marianne Patinelli-Dubay, a philosopher with the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, for a presentation focused on understanding Guild-style forestry in the context of virtue ethics. Following the presentation, participants will be encouraged to explore these theoretical…
Forest Farming: A Climate Smart Practice
Register Thursday, June 13, 2024 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Smokey House Center 426 Danby Mountain Road Danby, VT 05739 2.5 category 1 continuing forester education credits (CFE) through Society of American Foresters Full event webpage Join us at Smokey House Center for a field session on forest farming - a USDA-recognized agroforestry practice that involves…
Environmental Ethics in Running a Logging Business
Register June 13, 2024 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time Join us for a discussion with Guild member Katrina Amaral of Timberdoodle Farm to learn about logging for long-term sustainable land management while farming, what to consider for stand health and diversity, and Timberdoodle's environmental ethic. Timberdoodle Farm is a specialty logging & sawmill business based…
Old-Growth Forest Stewardship: New USFS Technical Guidance
Register for this webinar June 20, 2024 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MT / 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. CT / 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET Please join Forest Stewards Guild members and colleagues for a discussion of the new US Forest Service Technical Guidance for Standardized Silvicultural Prescriptions for…
Northeast Midwest RX Fire Science and Management Conference
Register August 19 - 22, 2024 Hilton Albany 40 Lodge St, Albany, NY 12207 Agenda A workshop for all wildland fire management partners across the 20 state NE-MW region to share region-wide, science-based, fire ecology information oriented toward expanding and maintaining the use of prescribed fire across all landscapes, jurisdictions, and fire-dependent ecosystems. Workshop Objectives…
Guild discussion on old-growth forest stewardship
Register for this webinar July 9, 2024 Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT / 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. MT / 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CT / 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET Please join the Guild's Membership and Policy Council to discuss old-growth forest stewardship. We'll cover protection, preservation, conservation, management, and recruiting future old forests. Guild…
Irregular Shelterwood Silviculture for Carbon Storage and Climate Adaptation
Register (40 participant limit) Friday, August 2, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Log landing off North Road in Sebec, Maine* *GPS coordinates and directions will be sent to registered participants Event flyer for download Join hosts and Guild members Bob Seymour (University of Maine Professor Emeritus) and Ali Kosiba (University of Vermont…