Forestry Through the Looking Glass: A Prism of Possibilities
March 14-16, 2023
Nashua, NH
Hosted by NESAF Granite State Division
1 | This program is current as of 1/29/2023. See NESAF website for latest version. | |||||
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2 | Tuesday, March 14 | |||||
3 | Time | Session | Room | Presentation Topic/Title | Speakers | CEUs |
4 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Ballroom Foyer | Registration | |||
5 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Ashwood Court | Posters | |||
6 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Wentworth | Vendors, raffle, silent auction, coffee & refreshments | |||
7 | 9:30 - 11:30 am | Opening Plenary - Forestry Through the Looking Glass: A Prism of Possibilities | Ballroom Center & South | 9:30 - 10:00 Introductions and Welcome | Adam Moore, NESAF Chair, Executive Director, Sheriff's Meadow Foundation Alexa Kosalek, GSD/SAF Chair, District Forester, LandVest Steve Roberge, General Chair for NESAF 2023 Meeting, Extension State Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension | 1.5 |
8 | 10:00 - 11:00 Forests Adrift: Challenges Facing Northeastern Forests | Charles Canham, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | ||||
9 | 11:00 - 11:30 Discussion and Call to Action | Nicole Rogers, Assistant Professor of Silviculture, UMaine | ||||
10 | 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Wentworth | Break and Grab-and-Go Lunches | |||
11 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Ballroom North | NESAF Business Meeting | |||
12 | 1:30- 3:00 pm | Old Growth Ecology & Management | Ballroom North | 1:30 - 2:15 Old Growth Ecology | Neil Pederson, Senior Ecologist, Harvard Forest Shawn Fraver, Associate Professor, UMaine | 1.5 |
13 | 2:15 - 3:00 Old Growth Management | Tony D'Amato, Professor, Director of Forestry Program and Director of Research Forests, UVM Paul Catanzaro, Professor & State Extension Forester, UMass | ||||
14 | Two-eyed Seeing - Indigenous and Western Knowledge in Forestry | Ballroom Center & South | 1:30 - 2:00 Principles of Right Relationships with Indigenous Partners | Andrew StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr., Cultural Steward, Nipmuc Citizen, and Creative Director of NO LOOSE BRAIDS Jennifer Albertine, Climate and Land Justice Specialist, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust | 1.5 | |
15 | 2:00 - 2:30 Tribal Engagement - Working Collaboratively in EAB Response and Climate Resilience Planning | Tyler Everett, Mi'kmaq Nation Tribal Citizen, PhD Student, UMaine | ||||
16 | 2:30 - 3:00 Managing Forests to Promote Water Quality and Culturally Significant Species | Chuck Loring, Jr., Director, Penobscot Nation Dept of Natural Resources | ||||
17 | Wildlife and Forestry: Management at the Landscape Scale | Balsam | 1:30 - 2:00 The Loss of Keystone Species and Implications for Forests | John Scanlon, Wildlife Biologist, Retired Director of MassWild | 1.5 | |
18 | 2:00 - 2:30 The Place for Wild Bees and Pollinators in a Changing Forested Landscape | Kass Urban-Mead, Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society | ||||
19 | 2:30 - 3:00 NRCS Practices for Pollinators and Wildlife | Kelly Boland, State Biologist, NRCS Alina (Harris) Cypher, Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management Specialist, Xerxes Society | ||||
20 | Workforce Challenges and Opportunities | Bedford | 1:30 - 2:00 Forest Industry Workforce Overview | Ryan Wallace, Former Director of Maine Center for Business and Economic Research | 1.5 | |
21 | 2:00 - 2:10 Recruitment and Retention in an Integrated Forest Management Company | Alex Barrett, Forestry Division Manager, Long View Forest | ||||
22 | 2:10 - 2:30 Vermont Forest Economy Workforce Initiatives | Christine McGowan, Forest Products Program Director, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund | ||||
23 | 2:30 - 2:40 New Hampshire Forest Career Field Day | Jasen Stock, Exec. Director, NH Timberland Owners Assoc. | ||||
24 | 2:40 - 3:00 Q&A with speakers | |||||
25 | Tuesday, March 14 (continued) | |||||
26 | Time | Session | Room | Presentation Topic/Title | Speakers | CEUs |
27 | 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Break | ||||
28 | 3:30 - 5:00 pm | Old Growth in Public Discourse | Ballroom North | 3:30 - 4:15 Old Growth in Public Discourse | Frank Cervo, Service Forester, CT Dept of Energy & Environmental Protection Andrea Urbano, Private & Municipal Lands Supervisor, CT Dept of Energy & Environmental Protection | 1.5 |
29 | 4:15 - 5:00 Panel Discussion | Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest; Sean Fraver, UMaine; Tony D'Amato, UVM; Paul Catanzaro, UMass; Frank Cervo, CT DEEP; Andrea Urbano, CT DEEP | ||||
30 | Women Landowners are Decision Makers, Are You Listening? | Ballroom South | 3:30 - 3:35 Introduction | Rebecca DiGirolomo, Forestry Field Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension | 1.5 | |
31 | 3:35 - 3:50 Putting Women Landowners in Context: a Research Update | Olivia Lukacic, Land Conservation Specialist, The Trustees of Reservations | ||||
32 | 3:50 - 4:05 Attitudes, Behaviors, and Barriers: Understanding Women Forestland Owners and Managers in New Hampshire | Amy Gaudreau, Forest Stewardship Outreaech Program Manager, UNH Cooperative Extension | ||||
33 | 4:05 - 4:20 Women Owning Woodlands (WOW) Vermont Program Success | Caitlin Cusak, Forester, Vermont Land Trust Nancy Patch, County Forester, Vermont Dept of Forests, Parks, and Recreation | ||||
34 | 4:20 - 5:00 Landowner stories, discussion, and reflection | Rebecca DiGirolomo, Forestry Field Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension | ||||
35 | Long-term Climate Research | Balsam | 3:30 - 4:00 Ice Storm Project | Lindsay Rustad, Research Ecologist and Acting Director, USDA Northeast Climate Hub, Forest Service | 1.5 | |
36 | 4:00 - 4:30 Seven years of experimental drought: Ecophysiological responses in a New Hampshire pine-oak forest | Matthew Vadeboncoeur, Research Scientist, UNH | ||||
37 | 4:30 - 5:00 Climate Change Across Seasons | Pamela Templar, Professor, Dept of Biology, Boston University | ||||
38 | Grab bag session #1 | Bedford | 3:30 - 4:00 What are People Thinking about Sustaining Benefits from the Northern Forest? | Julie Renaud Evans, Program Director, Northern Forest Center | 1.5 | |
39 | 4:00 - 4:30 Techniques for Reintroducing American Chestnut into the Forest | Charlie Moreno, Forester, Moreno Forestry | ||||
40 | 4:30 - 5:00 Creating Resilient Riparian Forests to Protect Source Water in the Merrimack River Watershed | Karl Honkonen, Watershed Forester, USDA Forest Service, State & Private Forestry Tyson Morrill, Restoration Project Manager, Merrimack River Watershed Council | ||||
41 | 5:30 - 7:00 pm | Ballroom Center & South | Alumni Socials, with cash bar, pizza, and crudites | |||
42 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Ballroom Center & South | Treevia Bowl, all are welcome to join | |||
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46 | Wednesday, March 15 | |||||
47 | Time | Session | Room | Presentation Topic/Title | Speakers | CEUs |
48 | 7:00 am - 5:30 pm | Ballroom Foyer | Registration | |||
49 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm | Ashwood Court | Posters | |||
50 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm | Wentworth | Vendors, raffle, silent auction, coffee & refreshments | |||
51 | 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Northern Hardwood Silviculture | Ballroom North | 8:00 - 8:30 Key Concepts and Fundamentals in Northern Hardwood Silviculture | Gaetan Pelletier, Executive Director, Northern Hardwoods Research Institute | 1.5 |
52 | 8:30 - 9:00 Adaptive Silviculture for Emerald Ash Borer | Kevin Evans, Director of Woodland Operations, Dartmouth College | ||||
53 | 9:00 - 9:30 Rehabilitation of Northern Hardwood Stands Using Multcohort Silvicultural Scenarios in Quebec | Steve Bedard, Research Silviculturalist, Forest Research Branch, Government of Quebec | ||||
54 | Flash Talks 1 | Ballroom Center & South | Various topics | Various speakers | 1.5 | |
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57 | New and Emerging Markets | Balsam | 8:00 - 8:30 Emerging Markets for Forests Products | Eric Kingsley, Forest Economist, Innovative Natural Resource Solutions | 1.5 | |
58 | 8:30 - 8:45 The Development of Cross-Laminated Timber in the Northeast | Ben Herzog, Wood Technologist, UMaine | ||||
59 | 8:45 - 9:00 Using Local Species in Cross-Laminated Timber - Eastern Hemlock Demonstration Project and Spruce-Pine-Fir south | Charlie Levesque, Executive Director, North East State Foresters Association | ||||
60 | 9:00 - 9:15 The State of Mass Timber Construction in the Northeast and Beyond | Ricky Mclain, Senior Technical Director, WoodWorks | ||||
61 | 9:15 - 9:30 Q&A with speakers | |||||
62 | Grab bag session #2 | Bedford | 8:00 - 8:30 Expanding Southern Pine Beetle Populations Threaten Pitch Pine Forests in New England and New York | Kevin Dodds, Forest Entomologist, US Forest Service | 1.5 | |
63 | 8:30 - 9:00 The construction and effectiveness of slash walls to exclude deer and regenerate hardwoods: 7 year results | Peter Smallidge, State Extension Forester, Cornell University | ||||
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65 | 9:30 - 10:00 am | Break | ||||
66 | 10:00 - 11:30 am | Emerging Tools and Challenges for Softwood Silviculture | Ballroom North | 10:00 - 10:30 Northern Conifer Silviculture Guide | Laura Kenefic, Research Forester, US Forest Service | 1.5 |
67 | 10:30 - 11:00 Hemlock Conservation Plan | Savannah Ferreira, Forest Health Specialist, Vermont Dept of Forest, Parks, and Recreation Alexandra Kosiba, Assistant Professor of Forestry, UVM | ||||
68 | 11:00 - 11:30 Wildlife Management at Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge | Tom LaPointe, Forest Ecologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service Sean Flint, Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service | ||||
69 | Speed Networking 10:00 - 11:00 | Ballroom Center & South | 10:00 - 10:05 Introduction | Tony D'Amato, UVM | 0.0 | |
70 | 10:05 - 11:00 Speed Networking | |||||
71 | 11:00 - 11:30 Awards Lunch setup | Sheraton Staff | ||||
72 | Conservation of the White Oak Resource in the Eastern United States | Balsam | 10:00 - 10:45 White Oak Initiative - Ensuring White Oak Sustainability | Jeff Stringer, Chairman of the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Kentucky | 1.5 | |
73 | 10:45 - 11:30 White Oak: From Advance Reproduction to Impacts of a Changing Climate | Marty Spetich, Research Forest Ecologist, USDA Southern Research Station in Hot Springs Arkansas | ||||
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75 | Wednesday, March 15 (continued) | |||||
76 | Time | Session | Room | Presentation Topic/Title | Speakers | CEUs |
77 | 10:00 - 11:30 am (continued) | Wildlife and Forestry: Mammals in Our Forests | Bedford | 10:00 - 10:30 Mammals, Truffles, and Trees: Linking Above- and Below-ground Interactions | Ryan Stephens, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNH | 1.5 |
78 | 10:30 - 11:00 Coyotes - Ecology, Their Expanding Predator Niche, and Their Role in Forest Health | Chris Schadler, Wildlife Biologist | ||||
79 | 11:00 - 11:30 Game Camera Basics for Understanding Wildlife in Our Forests | Peter Steckler, Principal, Northeast Conservation Services | ||||
80 | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Break to allow for Awards Lunch setup | ||||
81 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Ballroom Center & South | Awards Lunch | |||
82 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Adaptive Forest Management for Global Change: Challenges, Opportunities, and Examples from Northern Forests | Ballroom North | 2:00 - 2:30 Natural regeneration patterns in adaptive silviculture treatments: five-year results | Jess Wikle, Manager, UVM Research Forests | 1.5 |
83 | 2:30 - 3:00 Climate-Smart Forestry in Massachusetts: Planning, Practices, and Programs for a More Resilient Forest | Joshua Rapp, Conservation Scientist, Mass Audubon | ||||
84 | 3:00 - 3:30 Barriers for emerging tree planting strategies in response to global change | Pete Clark, Postdoctoral Associate, UVM | ||||
85 | Non-native Pests, with a Focus on Beech Leaf Disease | Balsam | 2:00 - 2:30 Presentation Title TBD | Jeff Garnas, Associate Professor of Forest Ecosystem Health, UNH | 1.5 | |
86 | 2:30 - 3:00 Beech Leaf Disease: Background and Biology | Robert Marra, Associate Scientist/Forest Pathologist, CT Agricultural Experiment Station | ||||
87 | 3:00 - 3:30 Monitoring for Beech Leaf Disease | Cameron McIntire, Plant Pathologist, USDA Forest Service | ||||
88 | Urban Forestry | Bedford | 2:00 - 2:20 Striving Toward a More Just & Inclusive Approach to Street Tree Management | Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology at the Yale School of the Environment | 1.5 | |
89 | 2:20 - 2:40 Silviculture in the City: a Framework for Urban and Climate-Adapted Forest Management | Max Piana, Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service | ||||
90 | 2:40 - 3:00 Healthy Trees Healthy Cities | Richard Hallett, Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service | ||||
91 | 3:00 - 3:30 Panel Discussion on Urban Forestry Topics | |||||
92 | 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Break | ||||
93 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm | Managing for Forest Carbon: Trade-offs and Considerations | Ballroom North | 3:30 - 4:00 Management Trade-offs Between Forest Carbon Stocks, Sequestrations Rates, and Structural Complexity | Ry Patton, Graduate Student, SUNY ESF | 1.5 |
94 | 4:00 - 4:30 Carbon Storage and Disturbance Trade-offs and the Need to Manage for "Carbon AND" | Coeli Hoover, Research Ecologist, US Forest Service Northern Research Station | ||||
95 | 4:30 - 5:00 The Roles Harvested Wood Products Can Play | Alec Giffin, Senior Forest Science and Policy Fellow, New England Forestry Foundation | ||||
96 | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Forestry | Ballroom Center & South | 4:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion on Supporting Diversity in our Profession | Lynn Levine, Retired forester/naturalist, Nature Connect, Women Foresters Collaborative | 1.5 | |
97 | Jess Wikle, Forestry Faculty, UVM, Women's Forest Congress | |||||
98 | Maddie Eberly, Northeast Region Coordinator, Forest Stewards Guild, Seeing the Forest for the Queers | |||||
99 | Aly Dillon, Forestry Student, UVM Femmes in Forestry | |||||
100 | Liv Schneider, Forestry Student, UVM Femmes in Forestry | |||||
101 | Carolyn Ziegra, Research Forester, Appalachian Mountain Club, SWIFT | |||||
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103 | Wednesday, March 15 (continued) | |||||
104 | Time | Session | Room | Presentation Topic/Title | Speakers | CEUs |
105 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm (continued) | Wildlife and Forestry: Bats, Bees, and Birds | Balsam | 4:00 - 4:30 Bats - Endangered Species Listing Considerations and Forest Management Implications | Mariko Yamasaki, Research Wildlife Biologist, US Forest Service Northern Research Station | 1.5 |
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107 | 5:00 - 5:30 Songbirds in the Sugarwoods: Assessing the Impacts of Forest Structure and Diversity on Bird Communities in Vermont Sugarbushes | Liza Morse, Graduate Student, UVM | ||||
108 | Flash talks 2 | Bedford | Various topics | Various speakers | 1.5 | |
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111 | Thursday, March 16 | |||||
112 | 7:00 - 8:00 am | Ballroom Foyer | Registration | |||
113 | 7:00 - 8:00 am | Ashwood Court | Coffee & Fruit | |||
114 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Field Tour of the Heald Tract in Wilton, NH Sign-up Limit: 50 | This field trip will be a tour through recent silviculture, research, habitat, and invasive species control projects on the Forest Society's Heald Tract in Wilton, NH. The tour will walk through two separate harvests that were carried out in 2019, an old overgrown apple orchard that was overrun with invasives that we cut back and treated in 2020, and a recently cut meadow that we are managing for pollinator habitat. In the fall of 2022, the Forest Society installed educational signage in four locations to explain the goals of our past harvesting, and we plan to install similar signs in the future on other properties. We will plan to walk through as many areas as we have time for, and hope for lively discussion about silviculture, habitat management, invasives, and the public's perception of forestry. Tour Leaders: Gabe Roxby, Field Forester, Society for the Protection of NH Forests; Steve Roberge, Extension State Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension; Matt Tarr, State Wildlife Habitat Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension; Jeremy Turner, Managing Forester, Meadowsend Timberlands | 3.0 | ||
115 | TBD | Urban Forestry Tour in Lowell, MA | Join us on a walking tour in the historic City of Lowell, Massachusetts where the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation Urban and Community Forestry Greening the Gateway Cities Program is planting trees on public and private property to reduce household heating and cooling energy use by increasing tree canopy cover in urban residential areas. Learn more about this tree planting program taking place in designated Gateway Cities across Massachusetts. Tour Leader: Julie Coop, Urban and Community Forestry Coordinator, MA Dept of Conservation and Recreation | 3.0 | ||
116 | TBD | Big BAF Inventory Methods Workshop at the Sheraton Nashua Sign-up Limit: 75 | This three hour workshop will discuss the efficiencies of using the Big BAF cruising method compared to traditional point sampling. We will talk about data collection methods and how to process the data. We will also discuss new improvements in data collection, including how to deal with samples near an edge, collecting data using electronic tallying devices such as a cell phone, tablet or data collector for example a Juniper Allegro. Examples of real timber cruises will be used. We will discuss how to determine the best combination of BAFs to get an adequate sample size. This workshop will have a combination of review and new material and is designed for the working field forester. Questions and comments are always encouraged. Workshop Leader: Ken Desmarais, Forest Biometrician and NH Licensed Professional Forester | 3.0 | ||
117 | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm | Field Tour of Low Density White Pine Silviculture at Bear Brook State Park Sign-up Limit: 30 | Join us for a field tour of Bear Brook State Park with experts discussing silvicultural trials in low-density white pine management. The tour will visit sites at Bear Brook including an overstory removal, crop tree release, and multiple entry low-density trial plots. Tour Leaders: Will Guinn, Administrator, NH Division of Forests & Lands (NHDFL); Scott Rolfe, Regional Forester, NHDFL; Inge Seaboyer, Forester, NHDFL; Jim Oehler, Wildlife Habitat Program Supervisor, NH Fish and Game | 3.0 | ||
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120 | 9:15 am - 12:30 pm | Firewood Banks & Harvard Forest Fisher Museum in Petersham, MA Sign-Up Limit: 20 | This hands-on field trip will introduce participants to a firewood bank run by the Town of Petersham in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Sean Mahoney, champion of firewood banks in the region, will share information on how they work, firewood bank efforts in Massachusetts, and information on a new federal wood bank program funded by the 2022 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This is an opportunity to learn and help! Participants should bring work gloves and will have an opportunity to help for a short period (extra gloves will be available). The Harvard Forest Fisher Museum is close by and a second stop for those who are interested in visiting the Harvard Forest dioramas and other educational material at the museum. We will plan for about an hour at the firewood bank, and an hour at the museum. Tour Leader: Sean Mahoney, MA DCR Utilization and Markets Program Director | 3.0 | ||
121 | 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Mill Tour of HHP in Henniker, NH Sign-up Limit: 30 | This will be a tour of HHP, a sawmill that produces hardwood lumber, pallets, and roundwood chips. HHP produces 13 million board feet of green and kiln-dried hardwood lumber per year, with a focus on red oak, sugar maple, red maple, white birch, ash, and yellow birch. This facility is also the largest manufacturer of pallets in New Hampshire, making between 425,000 and 500,000 pallets annually. Their roundwood chip plant serves pulp and paper mills throughout the Northeast. Join mill staff for a tour of the facility, starting in the log yard, then moving through to the mill, the kilns, lumber warehouse, and pallet shop. Tour Leader: George Davenport, Log Buyer, and HHP mill staff | TBD | ||
122 | TBD | Tree Risk Assessment Workshop in Nashua, NH Sign-up Limit: 20 | Description coming soon Tour Leader: AJ Dupere, Urban Forester, NH Division of Forests and Lands | TBD | ||
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124 | For questions regarding the program, please contact Gabe Roxby (2023 Program Chair) at groxby@forestsociety.org | |||||