This event is part of the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative 2023 Forestry Webinar Series. Registration is required to attend the webinar but a recording will be posted about a week following the event on the SFEC YouTube Channel.
Each webinar session includes an approximately 45-minute presentation and live questions and answers. Each webinar is rated for one CAT1 credit.
Topic Overview: Biochar in the Forest
Biochar is a biobased soil amendment that can increase carbon storage and be created from many sources including small diameter and lower quality wood. In some ecosystems, biochar has been shown to increase water holding capacity and thus has been hypothesized as a potential treatment to decrease impact of drought stress due to climate change. We've been exploring the relationship between biochar and tree survival in sandy outwash soils for over seven years and will share results from multiple field and greenhouse studies.
View the full SFEC 2023 Forestry Webinar Series lineup.
About SFEC
Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative offers continuing education opportunities for foresters and natural resource managers in Minnesota and the region. Based in the University of Minnesota's Cloquet Forestry Center, SFEC is a natural resources educational cooperative whose members not only support our work but identify educational needs and guide program development.
Since 1997, SFEC has developed and delivered continuing education opportunities to forestry and natural resource professionals in a broad range of fields including forest ecology and management, wildlife ecology and management, forest health, remote sensing technologies, fire ecology, MN Timber Harvest and Forest Management Guidelines, and more.
SFEC's largest source of financial support is its members, through annual dues and event registration fees. SFEC also receives important financial support from the University of Minnesota Extension, the UMN College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, and the Cloquet Forestry Center.
Dr. Marcella Windmuller-Campione is an associate professor of silviculture and the forest and natural resource management major coordinator for the Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota.