Advanced Silvicultural Workshop for Northeast Foresters

The North East State Foresters Association (NEFA) is offering a Northeast Silviculture Institute for Foresters, a series of training workshops in graduate level silviculture, in 2017 and 2018.

The NEFA workshops are designed to provide foresters with the appropriate knowledge to make sound, science-based decisions for forest ecosystem management, harvests and regeneration. This project is designed so it can be used in the USDA Forest Service’s National Advanced Silviculture Program (NASP) to provide landscape-specific materials for northeast forests.

The first NASP New England and Northern New York Overview workshop will be held at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Craftsbury Common, Vermont on May 23 and 24th.

 A $50 registration fee will cover most food, classroom material and field trips. Lodging is extra. The session will include classroom and field training that includes:

Topic 1. Fisheries—Pete Emerson—2 hours inside lecture and 0.5 hour in the field

Topic 2 Hydrology—Paul Barten—1.5 hours inside lecture and 0.5 in the field

Topic 3. Markets & Utilization—Steve Bick—2 hour inside lecture and 0.5 in the field

Topic 4. Fire Ecology—Bill Patterson—2 hours inside lecture

Topic 5. Climate adaptation & mitigation change considerations—John Gunn—1 hr inside lecture

Topic 6. Technical writing including prescriptions—Mike Maguire—1 hour inside lecture

Topic 7. Presentations Skills—Amanda Mahaffey—1 hour inside lecture

Topic 8. Non-native invasive species—Dana Hazen—1 hour inside lecture

Topic 9. Pesticide use including non-native invasive species, et al—Dana Hazen—1 hr inside lecture

Topic 10. Sale layout and design including logging aesthetics—Roger Boyer—1 hour field trip

Topic 11. Monitoring & assessment—Ken Desmarais—1 hour inside lecture and 0.5 in the field

Topic 12. Landscape issues & considerations: fisheries, hydrology, climate, non-native species.

The other Institute workshops to be delivered later in 2017 will cover:

 Spruce – Fir Forest Type (2 days) June

 Mixed Oak Hickory Forest Type (2 days) August

 Pine, Oak and Hemlock Forest Type (2 days) September

 Northern Hardwood Forest Type (2 days) October

For more information please contact Charles Levesque at 603-588-3272 or levesque@inrsllc.com.

Participation is limited to 50 foresters.  For more information, or to apply to attend the workshop, go to www.northeastsilvicultureinstitute.org