Events Calendar

Jim Culbert [email protected]. Download the flyer here (pdf).

Dave Sweitzer ([email protected])

Lynette deSilva 541-737-7013 [email protected] http://outreach.oregonstate.edu/nrla/

For more information, visit the Idaho Forest Owners website or email.

1. Wallowa: Wednesday, July 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (or earlier)

Where: Meet at the Oregon Department of Forestry Office, Highway 82 in Wallowa, to car pool

Instructors: Dave Shaw, OSU Extension Service Forest Health Specialist and Paul Oester, Extension Forester

Program:

Do you often think about what might be damaging or killing your trees and what you can do about it?  Or, maybe you just want to learn more about forest health.  If so, this will be a great opportunity to learn about a wide variety of forest insects and diseases common to our forests in northeast Oregon.  We’ll focus on diagnosing insect and disease problems and see many examples, including bark beetles, foliage damaging insects and diseases, root rots, tip damaging insects, rusts and more.  We will also assess the underlying causes, discuss management options and available resource materials.

Registration and logistics:

Please call the OSU Extension Service Union County Office to reserve a place (541-963-1010) by Friday, July 20^th so we can plan accordingly.  We’ll be doing some light to moderate hiking so wear appropriate boots and plan for inclement weather.  Also, bring your own lunch and water.  We’ll have some extra water available.  We will car pool from the ODF parking lot in Wallowa and our route will follow a loop that will include stops along Smith Mountain Rd, then through the JoAnne and Craig Pubols property (Howard and Muriel Johnson’s estate), then on through some of Forest Capital Partners forestland and east to the Promise Road to Wallowa.

2. Pine Butterfly Tour---John Day, Friday, July 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (or earlier)

Where: Meet at the Oregon Department of Forestry Office, 415 Patterson Bridge Rd, John Day to car pool

Instructors:

Dave Shaw, Forest Health Specialist, Oregon State University Extension Service, Corvallis

Lia Spiegel, Entomologist, Forest Health Service Center, U.S. Forest Service, La Grande

Rob Flowers, Entomologist, Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem

Steve Fitzgerald, OSU Extension Service, Redmond

Ari DeMarco, OSU Graduate Student, Corvallis

Paul Oester, OSU Extension Service, La Grande

Bob Parker, OSU Extension Service, Baker City

Program:

As many of you may have noticed, during the past few years there has been an increase in the number of pine butterflies fluttering in and around our ponderosa pine forests.  This has been particularly true in parts of Malheur County where the population of butterflies is at outbreak levels and defoliation in some areas is high.  In fact, the area of defoliation in the outbreak area increased about 8 fold from 2010 to 2011.  We are not sure what the population will do in 2012, but this tour is a good opportunity to see the insect and damage and learn more about this defoliator.

On the tour, we’ll visit locations to see insect larvae and feeding habits and discuss the biology, ecology, damage impacts and trends, identification, management alternatives and challenges.  We’ll also be able show you the differences between the pine sawfly and pine butterfly and talk about why this is important.  In addition, we will have the opportunity to talk about a new research project getting underway (Title:  “Tree Mortality and Increased Fuels Following Severe Defoliation by Pine Butterfly in Oregon-Assessing the Aftermath of the 2008-11 Epidemic”).  As you can see, we have an outstanding group of “experts” so there should be plenty of opportunity for discussion.  Plans are to include both federal and private landowner stops.

If you are a woodland owner, logger, contactor or you’re just interested, this informational workshop will help answer many of your questions.    

Pre-registration and logistics:

Please call the OSU Extension Service Union County Office to reserve a place (541-963-1010) by Friday, July 20th.  We’ll be doing some light hiking so wear appropriate boots and plan for inclement weather.  Also, bring your own lunch and water.  We’ll have some extra water available.  We will car pool from the ODF parking lot in John Day.  For more information please call either the OSU Extension Office in La Grande (541-963-1010) or Baker City (541-523-6418).

Sponsors: OSU Extension Service, Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service.

Hope you can make one or both of these tours!

 Paul Oester, Extension Forester                              

This is a two-day event.  If you would like to attend and have not yet registered, please contact us soon.

ACI seminars are designed for timber cruisers and forestland managers who want to increase productivity and accuracy.  Senior forester Paul Wagner will be instructing this course.
 
More information is available here.

Donna Loucks (360.736.2147) or Washington Tree Farm Program (360.701.7656). Or download the registration form here (pdf).

Donna Loucks ([email protected]), 360.736.2147. Download the registration form here (pdf).

The Seminar Group ([email protected]), 800, 574, 4852

Western Forestry and Conservation Association, 4033 SW Canyon Rd., Portland, OR 97221, 503.226.4562, [email protected]

The Seminar Group

This 1-day workshop presents all phases of helicopter logging, including equipment, landings, production, and innovations. Safety and layout are stressed.

Additional information is here.

The 4-day Cable Logging Workshop covers all phases of cable harvesting including systems, equipment, and rigging requirements to meet environmental and economic goals.  Strategic planning and system selection are stressed.  Advantages and disadvantages of each system will be discussed.  (Unit planning is covered in the field-oriented UNIT PLANNING & LAYOUT workshop.) 

Additional information here.

This 4-day workshop identifies, through practical examples, the different design requirements necessary for a forest road that has multi-functional demands.  Design requirements to meet transportation, as well as landing demands, are stressed.  Basic design techniques are used.  Grade, alignment, drainage, and slope stability problems will be addressed.

Additional information here.

WFCA

Arbor Day Foundation, 888.448.7337. Download the brochure here (pdf).

Paula Hopkins ()

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Norn Michaels

Lance David, 970.295.5856

The Seminar Group

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This 4-day workshop identifies, through practical examples, the different design requirements necessary for a forest road that has multi-functional demands.  Design requirements to meet transportation, as well as landing demands, are stressed.  Basic design techniques are used.  Grade, alignment, drainage, and slope stability problems will be addressed.

Additional information here.

Ellie Lathrop, 360-430-3006, [email protected].

Mike Cloughesy ([email protected])
 

The Seminar Group

Dana Colwell, 253.507.8506 or Harvesting Green Energy.

Lance David, 970.294.5856

Jennifer Childers, 208.667.4641 or Consulting Foresters.

Barbara Ruth, 203.432.5117

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The 4-day Cable Logging Workshop covers all phases of cable harvesting including systems, equipment, and rigging requirements to meet environmental and economic goals.  Strategic planning and system selection are stressed.  Advantages and disadvantages of each system will be discussed.  (Unit planning is covered in the field-oriented UNIT PLANNING & LAYOUT workshop.) 

Additional information here.

Rikki Wellman, 541.686.9191 or Oregon Logging Conference.

This 4-day workshop is a follow-up to the CABLE LOGGING workshop.  It is an intense, field-oriented session where the participant will plan and design a cable setting, including the location of the landings, unit boundaries, and anchor requirements.  Structures such as tailholds, intermediate supports, and tailtrees will be designed and selected.  Prior completion of the CABLE LOGGING  workshop will be required. 

Additional information here.

The Seminar Group (800.574.4852)

WFCA

Tom Waddell (406.546.5977) or see the Forest Business Network website.

SAF Northwest Office

FFLC website for registration brochure and additional information, or emall [email protected], 208.683.3168

Andy Perleberg, 509.667.6658 or WSSAF.

Annual meeting, Alaska Chapter and Northwest Section of The Wildlife Society

3-5 April 2013, UAF Wood Center, Fairbanks

Outline and working titles of special session

“Implications of managing fire succession and forest biomass production on wildlife habitat”

Session chair and panel moderator: Tom Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Session to occur Thursday 4 April

 Morning session and speakers:

“Complexity and implications of post-fire succession and fire management in boreal forest”

• Knut Kielland, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF: Potential applications of Long Term Ecological Research findings in Alaska to wildlife management and future research directions (50 minutes)
• Aditi Shenoy, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF: Persistent effects of fire severity on early successional forests (25 minutes for this and subsequent talks)
• Jennifer Barnes, National Park Service—Vegetative effects on re-burned sites in Alaska
• Kalin Seaton, Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Managing moose populations for harvest in accessible wildland fires
• Tom Kurth, Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Considerations in managing wildland and prescribed fire for resource objectives
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 Afternoon session and speakers:

“Ecological and management considerations of sustainably producing biomass fuel from Alaska boreal forest”

• Doug Hanson, Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Assessment of woody biomass to evaluate supply options for heat and power cogeneration
• Clare Doig, Forest & Land Management, Inc.: Challenges and opportunities  with biomass regeneration for hardwoods and softwoods  in boreal forest
• John Yarie, Department of Forest Sciences, UAF: Consideration of soil nutrient supply in choosing tree harvest and processing strategies
• Glenn Juday, Department of Forest Sciences, UAF: Potential effects of climate change on forest health, regeneration, and succession
• Scott Rupp, Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning, UAF: Modeling forest landscape dynamics to evaluate management options
• Mike Curran, Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Ecological and economic considerations in long-term contracts for biomass supply from state lands

Thelma Alsup or go to the Timber Measurement Society website.

Uniform Plan Training: 8:30 to 3:30. Tree Farm Inspector Refresher: 3:45-5:15. No charge but please RSVP one week in advance of session to Jen Rains (503.588.1813 ext. 1).

Diane Sandefur (503.646.5393) or go to the Atterbury website.

This 2-day workshop presents the systems, equipment, planning, and operational requirements for using cable systems in small wood (less than 9 inches DBH). 

Additional information here.

Uniform Plan Training: 8:30 to 3:30. Tree Farm Inspector Refresher: 3:45-5:15. No charge but please RSVP one week in advance of session to Jen Rains (503.588.1813 ext. 1).

SAF Northwest Office or OSAF.

Nathan Lojewski, 907-562-4155, [email protected]

This 2-day workshop presents all phases of ground-based harvesting systems and equipment to meet environmental and economic goals. Processing in the woods and at the landing will be presented. System selection, technique and layout are stressed.

Additional information here.

WFFA (360.736.5750)

Meeting information and registration: http://www.westernhardwood.org/.

UI Extension Forestry, 208.885.6356, [email protected], http://www.uidaho.edu/extension/forestry/content/leap

Starker Lectures

[email protected], http://www.waurisa.org/conferneces/2013_Conference_Index.html

Uniform Plan Training: 8:30 to 3:30. Tree Farm Inspector Refresher: 3:45-5:15. No charge but please RSVP one week in advance of session to Jen Rains (503.588.1813 ext. 1).

253.924.5206, http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/Company/Bonsai/Events

ESRI Forestry Group (909.793.2853)

Uniform Plan Training: 8:30 to 3:30. Tree Farm Inspector Refresher: 3:45-5:15. No charge but please RSVP one week in advance of session to Jen Rains (503.588.1813 ext. 1).

Starker Lectures

Jennifer Beathe, 541.929.2477

Starker Lectures

WFCA

Rick Zenn, 503.488.2103, http://oregoncommunitytrees.org/conferences

Jim James, 503.588.1813, http://www.oswa.org

Northern Rockies Fire Science Network

Maurine Powell, 541.737.3993, http://outreach.oregonstate.edu/nrla/contact.php

Andy Perleberg, WSU Extension Forester, 503.667.6540

WFCA

Betty Munis, Idaho Forest Products Commission, 208.334.3292

Beth Dodson, 406.243.5542

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Greg Lewis, 978.469.6335

Sara Wu, 503.488.2130

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