Cloquet Forestry Center
175 University Rd
Cloquet, MN 55720
This three-day workshop is hosted by the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative (SFEC). The event is hybrid and registration is required. Learn more on the workshop's listing on the SFEC website.
Description
Stand inventories inform silviculture prescriptions as well as guide broader landscape management goals. However, while society's changing needs mean forests are managed for a greater variety of benefits, offices may not have enough forester capacity to keep up with increasingly complex stand inventories. This hybrid workshop will combine remote instruction on setting up cruises, optimizing inventory efforts, and inventory analysis with an in-person primer on data collection.
This workshop is primarily for early-career professionals, but open to all interested participants.
Cost: $75 for members, $140 for non-members. Registration includes all three days of instruction.
Agenda in brief
Tuesday, April 25th from 9am-11am: Remote instruction going over sampling design and inventory implementation.
Wednesday, April 26th from 8:30am to 1:00pm: In-person field work at the Cloquet Forestry Center on plot measurements and conducting an inventory. Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, April 27th from 9am-11am: Remote instruction going over post-inventory analysis and drawing conclusions from inventory data.
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.