The 2026 Winter Massachusetts Foresters’ Council Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 26th from 4:30 – 7:30 pm at the Bluebonnet Banquet Hall in Northampton.
Keynote speaker for the meeting will be Ken Canfield, Chief Forester of DCR’s Division of Water Supply Protection. Ken will discuss communication tools and strategies that he uses to explain forest management projects on watershed lands to the public.
Felicia Hubacz, from DCR Forest Health, will discuss the latest health challenges facing our forests.
Mike Barry, from DCR Service Forestry, will present on service forestry news and programs, including the expanded C-SIP program.
Chris Egan, MFA’s Executive Director, will give a legislative and regulatory policy update.
Doug Hutcheson, Chair of MA SAF, will share information about SAF membership and programs.
Registration and social hour with a cash bar will open at 3:30 pm, the meeting will begin at 4:30, dinner will be served at 5:30, and the meeting will wrap up by 7:30 pm.
The cost of the meeting will be $40 for MFA members and their guests, and $50 for non-members.
The meeting has been approved for 2 Massachusetts forester credits in Category I, 2 Massachusetts Timber Harvester credits, and 1 Connecticut CEU. SAF credits are pending.
Registration for the meeting is open now.
For online registration, fill out the form, and on the next screen, if you are registering more than one person, click “Submit Another Response.” Once all attendees are registered, proceed to the payment screen and pay for all attendees combined.
Click here to register online.
You may instead print out and mail in a paper registration form – it must arrive at our office by February 23. Click here to download the paper form.
If you have any trouble with the online registration, contact Chris Egan at cegan@massforestalliance.org or 617-645-1191 to reserve your place.