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All webinars at 1 PM ET. Webinar titles subject to change. 

January 10 - We Are the Urban Wood Network Inc.

February 14 - Life of an Urban Tree - We All Play a Part in Urban Wood Utilization

March 13 - Developing and Improving your Urban Wood Business

April 10 - NHLA: An Urban Wood Resource

May 8 - How Anatomical Features of Urban Wood Create Unique Designs

June 12 - Building an Urban Wood Business: Where to Start and How to Thrive

July 10 - Incorporating Different Materials into Urban Wood Products

August 14 - Beyond Lumber: Utilizing Entire Trees to Their Highest Next Use

October 9 - Urban Wood Success Stories from Churches to Universities

December 11 - USRW Certified Urban Wood Update

This webinar is centered on primary objectives of the Standards for Certification and Chain of Custody for Urban, Salvaged, and Reclaimed Woods pilot test and what the next steps are in the development of these standards.

UWN and SAF Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

LIVE on December 11, 2024 at 1 pm ET

Thank you for joining us for our Forest Pollinator Webinar Series!

All Forest Pollinator Webinars available through one year from air date. 

February 15 - Forest Management Practices to Enhance Wild Pollinators in Southern Pine Forests

March 21 - The Role of Managed Conifer Forests in Supporting Native Bee Communities in the Pacific Northwest

April 18 - How Forest Restoration Diversifies Pollination Networks Across Multiple Systems

May 16 - The Role of Management in Structuring Pollinator Communities of Forested Landscapes in the Eastern United States

June 20 - Effects of Landscape Context, Tree Composition, and Fire on Pollinators in Southeastern U.S. Forests

July 18 - Pollinators in the Woods? The Place of Wild Bees in a Changing Forested Landscape

August 15 - Restoring Bee Communities in Harvested Forests

September 19 - Bringing Forest Ecology to Bumble Bee Conservation

Community of Interest Webinar Wednesdays - These are webinars hosted by SAF Communities of Interest. Keep checking back as new webinars are developed regularly.

February 28 - Exploring Cansiglio: 500 Years of Forestry in the Italian Prealps

April 24 - Decisions in Forestry: A Foundation from Indigenous Points of View

May 29 - Silviculture of Pioneer Forest

July 24 - Evolution of Geiger LiDAR and its Commercial Application in Forest Inventory and Biometrics

August 28 - Replacing Tree Marking with Tablets - A Southwestern Example

September 25 - Importance of Sustainability Measurements for Carbon Markets

October 23 - Innovations in Forest Management: Spotlight on California

November 20  - Needle Diseases in Southern Pines

 Join experts as they discuss the current understanding of brown spot needle blight and other needle diseases, and how this emerging issue can be tackled under the Pine Pandemic Preparedness Plan.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.5 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through November 20, 2025

This webinar celebrates the ways in which local communities have honored their fallen trees. Hear from multiple experts who have helped churches and universities utilize their urban wood resources to their fullest extent.

UWN and SAF Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through October 9, 2026

 This webinar highlights three forest-sector innovators supported by the CAL FIRE's Wood Products and Bioenergy Team and how they're addressing the challenges of the increased pace and scale of forest management in California.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.5 Category 1 CFE

LIVE on October 23, 2024 at 1pm ET

This webinar introduces listeners to bumble bee ecology and conservation and discusses how common ground can be found between forest management and pollinator recovery.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through September 19, 2025

 This webinar will cover how our panelists define and measure sustainability in their work and the ways they use sustainability to define balanced approaches to decision-making. 

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.0 Category 1 CFE

LIVE on September 25, 2024 at 1pm ET

 This webinar will focus on tablet marking or DxP Plus, highlighting the motivation for developing tablet marking, providing an overview of the process, and comparing silvicultural outcomes in comparison to traditional leave tree marking (LTM) or designation by prescription (DxP).

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through August 28, 2025

This webinar covers techniques for installing floral enhancements in harvested forests to support wild pollinator populations.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through August 15, 2025

Hear from Urban Wood Economy’s CEO about UWE’s efforts to facilitate sustainable supply chains by utilizing all of the tree – including trimmings and species not slated for urban wood products.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through August 14, 2025

This presentation explores a wide range of forestry inventory and biometric applications of Geiger-mode LiDAR with three leading experts.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.5 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through July 24, 2025

This talk explores the natural history of forest-associated pollinators, highlight threats to pollinators via forest health issues, and suggest management goals for bee-friendly forest stewardship.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through July 18, 2025

This webinar will better equip you to overcome logistical challenges when incorporating new and exciting materials into urban wood products.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through July 10, 2025

Danny Torres shares his lessons on how he reached success as a new business owner, challenges he faced, and lessons learned in successfully marketing and growing an urban wood business.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through June 12, 2025

This webinar explores the critical importance of forests to pollinators and how management activities can affect these organisms and their services.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through June 20, 2025

Join Brandon Kuhn, Chief Forester for Pioneer Forest, as he discusses the history and challenges of managing this uneven-aged forest.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through May 29, 2025

This webinar introduces a novel perspective of how to manage the natural landscape for robust pollinator communities that is derived through collaborations between land managers and academic researchers.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through May 16, 2025

This webinar explains urban wood anatomical features and how their beauty translates into marketing and sales.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through May 8, 2025

Hear from panelists about unique approaches to sustainable land management, the cultural importance with the ecosystem, and the role certifications play in their forest management.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through April 24, 2025

This webinar analyzes how pollinators respond to various aspects of forest restoration.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through April 18, 2025

This webinar will present how the National Hardwood Lumber Association can be a valuable resource for urban wood manufacturers and users.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through April 10, 2025

This webinar will introduce attendees to native bees and their ecology, and discusses recent research findings aimed at understanding how they respond to wildfire and timber harvest.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through March 21, 2025

This webinar will provide attendees with guidance on how to establish (or refine) a business model in order to ensure a successful urban wood business.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.5 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through March 13, 2025

This webinar showcases how forest management and forest science has changed over the past 500 years with shifting technology, demands, and management paradigms.

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through February 28, 2025

This webinar features a panel of experts as they discuss how they collaborate to maximize urban tree benefits, share their unique perspectives on urban wood, and explain their roles in the various lifecycle stages of an urban tree.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through February 14, 2025

This webinar focuses on the multi-faceted interactions between forest management practices and wild pollinator populations and communities.

Member: FREE ($0) // Non-member: FREE ($0)

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through February 15, 2025

This webinar introduces UWN and urban wood utilization as a sustainable, resilient, and enduring environmental solution to ecological, climate-oriented, economic, and societal challenges.

Member: $10 // Non-member: $15

1.0 Category 1 CFE // ISA CEUs Available

Accessible through January 10, 2025

This webinar covers the new FIA national-scale modeling system for predicting tree volume, biomass, and carbon. 

Member: FREE // Non-member: $10

1.5 Category 1 CFE

Accessible through December 13, 2024

Grow your understanding of the relationship between forests, climate, and carbon initiatives such as carbon projects and markets in this short course provided in partnership with Michigan State University.

$175 Member // $220 Non-member

4.5 Category 1 CFEs

Develop your foundational knowledge in the relationship between climate regulation, forests, and forest carbon in this short course provided in partnership with Michigan State University.

$175 Member // $220 Non-member

3.5 Category 1 CFEs

Strengthen your outreach and education efforts to youth as well as adult audiences using Project Learning Tree (PLT).

$49 Member // $79 Non-member

4 Category 2 CFEs

Make the shift from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro with this course provided by Landmark Spatial Solutions.

$170 Member // $250 Non-member

Registration closed // New cohort coming soon

4 Sections over 4 weeks, limited to 50 registrants

7.5 Category 1 CFEs

This microcourse will give insight on utilizing land for multiple use purposes including row crop production, silvopasture, riparian zone protection, edible/medicinal plants, and mushroom production.

$34 Member // $54 Non-member

1.5 Category 1 CFEs

This microcourse will present a general overview of hardwood product classes, the US Forest Service process for grading standing timber, NHLA guidelines for grading lumber, discussion of internal and external log defects, sawn board defects, and pricing comparison between grades.

$24 Member // $39 Non-member

1.0 Category 1 CFE

Gain a broader understanding of the ways that urban wood is being used for good rather than waste.

Free for SAF Members and Non-Members

5.5 Category 1 CFEs

Accessible through December 31, 2024

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