Northern Hardwoods Advanced Silviculture Workshop

The North East State Foresters Association (NEFA) will be holding a Northeast Silviculture Institute Northern Hardwoods Silviculture Workshop in Bartlett, New Hampshire on September 13 & 14^th.

The Institute workshops are designed to provide northeast U.S. 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. Such a curriculum does not exist at this time for the northeast under NASP.

Each of the forest type workshops will include at least:

1.    Silvics of individual species & Stand Dynamics including land use history   

2.    Silvicultural Systems and Practices including growth, yield, quality and regeneration

3.    Economics, utilization & markets

4.    Forest Health

5.    Wildlife Considerations specific to forest type

6.    Soils   

7.    Site Quality and Productivity

8.    Sample prescriptions

9.    Legal, landowner objectives & carbon considerations

10. Field Trip into forest type

Pre-requisites – pre-work will be required of attendees.

For more information, go to http://northeastsilvicultureinstitute.org/