Forest Conversion in the Crosshairs: Avoiding Collateral Damage
Speaker(s): Steve Prisley, NCASI
Description: Many organizations hope to combat forest loss by requiring reporting of supply-chain impacts on land use change. This presentation will review challenges faced by companies attempting to report under these programs, and offer some best practices in assessing and reporting forest area loss.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Evolving Urban Forestry - The New SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard and Third-Party Certifications
Speaker(s): Paul Johnson, Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Description: 2023 is an important year in the history of urban and community forestry. Join us as we set the stage for the evolution of urban and community forestry and the synergy of bringing the new SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard and third-party certification into the sector.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Promoting Climate-Smart and Resilient Forestry in the Southern United States.
Speaker(s): Puskar Khanal, Clemson University
Description: The climate of the Southeast is expected to see dramatic changes in the upcoming decades with direct and indirect effects on forest ecosystems. This project team of researchers and Extension specialists from four southern forestry schools plans to train forestry professionals and educators on climate-resilient forestry practices.

Forest Carbon Markets: Extension Programs and Resources
Speaker(s): Melissa Kreye, Pennsylvania State University
Description: Opportunities for forest owners to engage in climate change mitigation have increased due to the recent emergence of forest carbon market programs. At this talk, we will present an overview of the programs and resources provided by the FOCCE program and discuss opportunities for extension educators.

Developing and Harnessing Climate-Smart Commodities from Hardwood Restoration for Small and Underserved Landowners in the Southern Bottomland Region
Speaker(s): Nana Tian, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Description: The University of Arkansas at Monticello is learning this partnership project recruiting underserved landowners for disseminating project outcomes to the broader community of underserved landowners.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Utilizing FVS Growth Predictions for Restoration and Management of California Forests
Speaker(s): Katherine Wood, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Description: We leveraged 20 years of data from the Garden of Eden experimental plots in Northern California to evaluate FVS's ability to predict growth. We created a simple workflow for managers utilizing FVS growth predictions, both for ecological reforestation without intensive management and for reforestation using competing vegetation control.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Estimated Costs of Hazardous Fuels Management Associated with Silvicultural Treatments on USDA Forest Service Land
Speaker(s): Chris Miller, USDA Forest Service
Description: Together with the development of the first ever compendium of silviculture treatments for use in large-scale modeling, we conducted an analysis of the costs for treating hazardous fuels associated with these treatments.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Differences in Stand Dynamics Between Conventional Aspen and White Spruce-Aspen Mixedwood Forests in Northern Minnesota
Speaker(s): Chelsea Semper, University of Minnesota
Description: In Northern Minnesota, interest in creating mixedwood forests is increasing due to their increased ecological resilience and economic benefits compared to monoculture stands. Analysis of white spruce (Picea glauca) and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) mixedwood stands revealed differences in early growth dynamics of these ecosystem types.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

From Forest to Building: Analyzing the Relationships of Silviculture and Emerging Southern Yellow Pine Mass Timber Industry
Speaker(s): Shawna Meyer, Atelier Mey Architects and University of Miami (Moderator); Scott Sager, University of Florida - School of Forest, Fisheries, & Geomatic Sciences; and Christopher Meyer, University of Miami
Description: This panel of experts is assembled to discuss what silviculture and mass timber is in the south east, specifically Florida, and to analyze the relationship of forest to building. What is the role of the forester beyond the forest? What is the role of the architect, before the building?

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

North American Boundary Forests: Distribution, Drivers, Threats
Speaker(s): Sabrina Russo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Description: Boundary forests provide unique ecosystem services in North America's Great Plains. Our research in large inventory plots in two biogeographically significant boundary forests in Nebraska demonstrates that overdominance of woody encroaching and mesophytic species limits regeneration, particularly of light-demanding, often more drought-tolerant, species, potentially affecting these forests' climate change resilience.

Mapping Drought Sensitivity and Climate Change Refugia at the Southern Edge of the Western Boreal Forest
Speaker(s): Diana Stralberg, Canadian Forest Service
Description: We developed an index of drought sensitivity based on the difference in July vegetation greenness between drought and baseline periods. Ecoregional analyses suggest the importance of topographic position and aspect in southern boreal and parkland forests.

Topography-Driven Microclimate Gradients Shape Forest Structure, Diversity, and Composition at a Nebraskan Biome Transition Zone
Speaker(s): Bailey McNichol, Michigan State University
Description: In a mixed temperate refugial forest at a forest-grassland transition zone in the North American Great Plains, we found that topography-driven microclimate variation shapes patterns of forest structure, diversity, and composition, suggesting that microclimatic refugia within topographically complex regions may serve as potential buffers against climate-driven changes in biome diversity.

Frequent Fire Effects on Tree Regeneration and Stand Dynamics in Oak Woodlands
Speaker(s): Benjamin Knapp, University of Missouri
Description: Managing oak woodlands requires frequent prescribed fire to maintain open structure and promote herbaceous ground flora. However, frequent fire limits tree recruitment to the overstory, with long-term implications for stand dynamics. Using empirical data from long-term studies, we show varying fire frequency is important for long-term maintenance of oak woodlands.

Changes Within Quercus stellata-dominated Cross Timbers Forests of Oklahoma; Implications for Wildfire, Carbon, and Water
Speaker(s): Will Rodney, Oklahoma State University
Description: Largely due to fire exclusion, the Quercus stellata-dominated Cross Timbers forest of Oklahoma has converted from woodland to closed-canopy forest and has been encroached by the fire-sensitive Juniperus virginiana. This increases the risk of wildfire, increases carbon storage, and increases water use.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Silvicultural Transformation in Pinus ponderosa; a Regional Management Guide for Transitioning to Multi-aged Structures
Speaker(s): Neil Williams, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Description: Our proposal spotlights a practitioner-focused guide for transforming even-aged ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) stands to multi-aged structures and management. Using historical structure and management in ponderosa pine forests as context, we set out the rationale behind production of this guide, its key components, and several case study examples.

Polyploidization and Other Future Directions of Silviculture
Speaker(s): Conrad Young, Ouachita Getaways LLC
Description: Managing unmanaged forest and developing unmanaged land for eco-tourism, while focusing on creating a tree breeding program looking at disease resistance and food production, particularly induced polyploidization for parthenocarpic fruit production.

Northwest Tribal Agroforestry and TEK Collaboration Uncomplicated
Speaker(s): Donald Motanic, Self Employed
Description: The Northwest Tribal Agroforestry and TEK Collaboration Uncomplicated session will provide insight and resources on how to connect with tribes and tribal communities. The resources will include tribal programs utilized by the states of Washington, Oregon and Montana.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE
ESA CEU: 0.125

Entire video must be viewed to receive SAF CFE and/or ESA CEU credit.

Monitoring Planting Trials and Nucleated Seed Orchards for Restoration of Beech Bark Disease Impacted Forests
Speaker(s): Tom Panella, Michigan Tech University
Description: Beech bark disease has caused pronounced mortality of American beech at two National Lakeshores in Michigan. A restoration plan utilizing grafts from local resistant trees planted in nucleated understory orchards was devised. The results of trial outplantings will inform best practices to increase resistance genetics at both properties.

Quantification and Allocation of Carbon Debts Based on Forests Harvest in the Southeastern United States
Speaker(s): Laura Sims
Description: This research mainly focuses on how to quantify and allocate carbon debt caused by forest harvest in the Southeastern United States. A Hierarchical Hybrid Compatible Model (HHCM) is developed to estimate the carbon debt and emission related to forest harvest and production of forest products.

Stakeholders’ Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding the Viability of Hardwood CLT in Tennessee
Speaker(s): Alexander Bremner, The University of Tennessee
Description: Mass timber products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) are continuing to establish across the United States. However, CLT constructed of hardwood lumber is still in its infancy. This presentation will discuss the attitudes and perceptions of key stakeholders in the wood and construction industry on the feasibility of hardwood CLT.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE
ESA CEU: 0.125

Entire video must be viewed to receive SAF CFE and/or ESA CEU credit.

Improving Lumber Grade Recovery for the Tree that Built America - Eastern White Pine
Speaker(s): Sara Dreibelbis, SUNY - ESF
Description: Eastern white pine is the dominant softwood species of the Northeast U.S., however the majority of the region's harvest produces low grade lumber. Through a log-based sawmill study, we aim to identify factors contributing to lumber grades of eastern white pine and to develop management recommendations to improve grade recovery.

Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Ivan on Aboveground Carbon in Trees in the Gulf Coast
Speaker(s): Syed Asiful Alam, University of Georgia
Description: Using log-linear regression with model selection approach, we quantified the impact of hurricane Ivan (September 2004) on aboveground carbon (tons/acre) in trees and foliage of Perdido Bay watershed in the Gulf Coast. Our model predicted that tree class (softwood/mixed/hardwood), height, physiographic class (deep sands/flatwoods/rolling uplands/small drains/swaps/bottomlands) along with hurricane-affected status of the FIA plots are statistically significant (p≤0.05).

Sensible Spaces That Make Livable Urban & Community Forest Places
Speaker(s): Richard Hauer, CNUC and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Description: Creating ideal urban greenspaces as perfect places starts with sensible designs. You will explore how our eight senses (yes not five) and three spaces (home-work-away) are vital to understand when creating an urban forest utopia. We will explore the multitude of research related to creating a better built environment.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE
ESA CEU: 0.125

Entire video must be viewed to receive SAF CFE and/or ESA CEU credit.

Tree Mortality Following Drought in the Central and Southern Sierra Nevada
Speaker(s): Christopher Fettig, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Description: Mortality of ponderosa pine was highest at the lowest elevations, concentrated in large trees, and attributed mostly to western pine beetle. Tree mortality was positively correlated with initial live tree density and slope. Tree regeneration was dominated by incense cedar and oak, representing a potential shift in overstory composition.

The Forest Beneath Our Feet: Subsurface Drivers and Ecohydrological Consequences of Drought Stress Across California
Speaker(s): David Dralle, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Description: In this presentation, we will dig deeply to explore the ways that subsurface water storage regulates tree and stream behavior in drought.

Drought, Tree Mortality, and Regeneration in Northern California
Speaker(s): Sophia Lemmo, California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
Description: This proposal addresses recent tree mortality and regeneration trends in Northern California and how trends differed before, during, and after the 2012-2016 drought. We found these forests are not actively perpetuating as diversely. Targeted management aimed at generating disturbances to foster balanced and responsive regeneration, and resilient forests is needed.

Alternative Fuel-Reduction Treatments Interact with Local Stand Characteristics to Influence Tree Vigor and Mortality in the Southern Cascades, California, USA
Speaker(s): Christopher Looney, USFS PSW Research Station
Description: Alternative fuel-reduction treatments may differ in their long-term potential for improving tree vigor and avoiding tree mortality. Here we investigate how treatments interact with local tree, site, and stand characteristics to influence treatment success. Our results suggest fuel-reduction treatments alter important interactions between fire-tolerant and fire-intolerant conifer species.

Tree Resistance to Drought and Bark Beetle-associated Mortality Following Thinning and Prescribed Fire Treatments
Speaker(s): Alexis Bernal, University of California-Berkeley
Description: Our study highlights the beneficial impacts of thinning and prescribed fire treatments to promote tree resistance to drought and bark beetle-associate mortality across multiple species, including maintaining tree growth and promoting defense systems against beetles despite multiple years of severe drought.

Tree Mortality Response in California: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Future Events
Speaker(s): Ramiro Rojas, Pacific Southwest Region, USDA Forest Service
Description: Tree mortality in California crosses all land ownerships. It is important that government, citizens, and private industry work together to mitigate hazards and create more resilient forests. The USDA Forest Service's response to the tree morality event in California will be highlighted. Suggestions for responding to future events are shared.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Neurodiversity in Forestry: The Missing Conversation
Speaker(s): Candra Burns, Appalachian SAF
Description: What is neurodiversity? In the forest, there are different types of trees. All trees fall under the same definition, those types of trees do things differently from other types, called varieties. Every tree is individual, when you bring them all together, they represent biodiversity. Now consider our diverse neurological systems.

Assessment of Soil Erosion Rate, Ground Cover Status, and Best Management Practices Implementation Rate in the Conventional and Integrated Biomass Harvest Sites in the Southeastern USA
Speaker(s): Manisha Parajuli, Auburn University
Description: This study evaluated the impact of biomass harvests on soil erosion and BMP implementation rates in the Coastal Plains of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Results showed no significant differences in erosion rates between biomass and conventional harvest sites, indicating that proper implementation of BMPs is critical for all harvest types.

User-friendly Direct-response Analysis: Coupling TPO Data with Public Databases to Estimate Forest Products Employment Ratios
Speaker(s): Samuel Scott, BBER FIRP - UM
Description: The economic condition of the forest products industry is a key component in forest planning and management. Using novel methods, we build a series of regional and national coefficients that express the relationship between changes in forest output and changes in employment and wages across several forest products industry sectors.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE
ESA CEU: 0.125

Entire video must be viewed to receive SAF CFE and/or ESA CEU credit.

Evolution of Redwood Forest Silviculture - Learning from Jackson Demonstration State Forest's Decades of Work
Speaker(s): Lynn Webb, CAL FIRE- Jackson Demonstration State Forest
Description: The presentation will survey the results of a century's changing management on coastal redwood forests at Jackson Demonstration State Forest. It will draw on the forest's research and demonstrations to illustrate redwood silviculture. Now the expanded forest management goals reflect knowledge of ecosystem complexity as well as societal expectations.

The Role of Fuels Treatments in Transforming Fire Management
Speaker(s): John Bailey, Oregon State University
Description: This presentation will address the emerging crisis around large wildfires. To break the cycle of continued attempts at suppression that deepens the crisis will require fundamental changes in our willingness to retreat from the status quo, invest in proactive fuels management, and move forward sustainably rather than defiantly.

A Case for How Carbon Markets Are Failing Southern Tree Farmers
Speaker(s): Matthew Pelkki, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Description: Carbon markets that exclude stored carbon in wood products may result in less atmospheric carbon removal by forests than if products are included. We compare carbon storage outcomes from rotations that maximize LEV, MAI, carbon storage in living trees, and carbon in stand plus products.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE
ESA CEU: 0.125

Entire video must be viewed to receive SAF CFE and/or ESA CEU credit.

Are New York City Watershed Residents Thriving, Striving, or Just Surviving 25 Years Since the Historic Memorandum of Agreement?
Speaker(s): Anusha Lamsal, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Description: The purpose of this study is to to identify socio-economic trends in the NYC watershed related to the historic collaboration using census data for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 on various attributes such as population, age, education attainment, income, poverty, employment, and housing affordability.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Forest to Mi Faucet
Speaker(s): Mike Smalligan, Michigan - DNR
Description: Forest to Mi Faucet is a new project to showcase connections between forests and drinking water in the Great Lakes region. Twenty forestry and conservation partners are helping a dozen municipal water utilities implement their source water protection plans through forest management, protection and expansion in their watersheds.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Dendrochronology of Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Forests
Speaker(s): Alan Toczydlowski, University of Minnesota
Description: Floodplain forests of the Upper Mississippi River System are important and complex ecosystems currently threatened by hydrologic alterations, invasive species, and climate change. We are using tree ring and wood anatomy analysis to develop successional histories of these forests to guide restoration and management.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Establishing Cool-Season Forages in Thinned Hardwood Forests: Planting, Production, and Nutritive Value
Speaker(s): Christine Nieman, USDA-ARS
Description: The presented work evaluated the yield and nutritive value of orchardgrass and novel-endophyte tall fescue established in thinned, previously unmanaged hardwood forest. The purpose of this work was to create data-based best management practices to support small beef farmers transitioning a portion of their forestland to silvopasture.

Under the Canopy: Exploring Woodland Silvopasture Establishment as a Land Management Option for Forested Landowners With Livestock
Speaker(s): Ashley Conway-Anderson, University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
Description: We explore the ecological dynamics of a previously unmanaged Ozark woodland using silvicultural management techniques (midstory removal, prescribed fire, seeding native forages, logging) with the end goal of forage establishment for silvopasture. This study is part of a long-term project assessing the impact of grazing and silvopasture management in woodlands.

Under the Canopy: Perceptions and Practices of Woodland Silvopasture among Missouri Livestock Producers and Landowners
Speaker(s): Kendra Esparza-Harris, Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri
Description: Missouri livestock producers and forest landowners were surveyed to understand their forest management practices as related to their livestock management. Survey questions queried current perceptions and practices with regard to grazing livestock in wooded areas, and their understanding of silvopastoral practices.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Feedstock Availability & Economic Contribution of Increased Bioenergy Production in a Michigan Facility
Speaker(s): Tara Allohverdi, Michigan State University
Description: A case study in which a proposed bioenergy facility needs to assess current available feedstock and predict future availability as well. We estimate current and future feedstock availability and economic impacts of increasing production capacity by 500000 green tons. Results indicated resource availability with significant economic impacts to the state.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Reforesting Colorado: Strategies for Success in the Face of Wildfire and Climate Change
Speaker(s): Zoe Hall, Land Life and Benjamin Bishop, Land Life
Description: Reforesting Colorado: This presentation highlights reforestation efforts that work with private landowners to reforest +3,000 acres of 7 conifer species following the 2018 Spring Creek wildfire. The project used innovative technology and techniques to promote a more resilient forest ecosystem through excellent partners and funding through new climate markets.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Redwoods Rising: Landscape-Scale Restoration Forestry in Redwood National and State Parks
Speaker(s): Ben Blom, Save the Redwoods League
Description: Coast redwood forests of Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) encompass half of the world's remaining old-growth coast redwood forest, which store more above-ground carbon than any forest on the planet. Redwoods Rising is a landscape-scale partnership working to accelerate the recovery of late seral habitat in RNSP's second-growth forests.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Climate Smart Forestry: A Discussion about the Emerging Use-based Research, Policy, and Economics
Speaker(s): Eric Walsh, Manomet (Moderator); Kristina Bartowitz, American Forests (Moderator); Greg Latta, University of Idaho; Andy Whitman, Manomet; David Diaz, Ecotrust; and Ethan Breitling, National Alliance of Forest Owners
Description: A Panel Discussion about the critical role of use-based research, policy, and market development in advancing a climate smart approach in forestry.

Please note: This panel is in audio format only. You must listen to the whole recording to receive CFEs.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Landscape-scale, Cross-jurisdictional Assessment of the Post-fire Restoration Need in Klamath And Lake Counties, Oregon
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Pansing, American Forests
Description: Collaborative development of restoration and management strategies is integral to assess needs across large landscapes, generate stakeholder buy-in, foster partnership development and growth, support cross-jurisdictional implementation, and scale workforce development to address the large need across western forests. Here, we present a collaborative all-lands approach to post-fire restoration planning.

Partnerships After the Strategy: South-Central Oregon Post Fire Resilience Strategy Development and Implementation Lessons Learned
Speaker(s): Brian Morris, American Forests
Description: Partnerships and collaboration along with workforce development, recruitment, and supply chain improvements will be crucial to meeting the post fire restoration need across the western United States. Strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned while implementing a post-fire restoration strategy covering over 600,000 acres in south central Oregon will be discussed.

Modeling the Carbon Impacts of Forest Management, Wood Utilization, and Wildfire in California and Oregon
Speaker(s): Kendall DeLyser, American Forests
Description: American Forests has established a collaborative research partnership to model the carbon impacts of a broad range of forward-looking forest management and wood utilization scenarios in California and Oregon. Model results allow us to identify climate-smart forestry practices and discuss future management implications across all land ownerships in each state.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.375

Storing More Carbon in Forests through Improved Forest Management: A New England Case Study
Speaker(s): Ethan Belair, The Nature Conservancy and Colleen Ryan, New England Forestry Foundation
Description: Private forestland will play a critical role in implementing natural climate solutions in the U.S. Here, we present a case study modeling the carbon impacts of implementing forest management that emphasizes wildlife habitat, carbon, and timber production as coequal goals on private timberland in New England.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

A Decision Support Tool for Climate-adapted Seed Transfer
Speaker(s): Joseph Stewart, UC Davis
Description: The climate is changing faster than trees evolve or migrate on their own, resulting in reduced growth and survival. The Climate-Adapted Seed Tool uses data from seed transfer experiments to help foresters identify nearby seed sources best adapted to local climate conditions at their planting sites.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Forest Composition and Red Oak (Quercus sp.) Response to Elevation Gradients Across Managed Greentree Reservoirs
Speaker(s): Cassandra Hug, University of Arkansas at Monticello - Monticello, AR
Description: Green Tree Reservoirs provide ecosystem services as well as duck hunting opportunities and timber harvesting. By understanding forest composition, across elevation gradients, research outcomes can be provided to landowners to inform management decisions that will promote a healthy and sustainable Green Tree Reservoir in Arkansas and across the region.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125