Woodswise Wire
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015
Augusta Civic Center
Augusta Room, Second Floor, North Wing
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
Coffee and Informal Discussion
9 a.m.
Annual Meeting
Update of activities, plans for 2015,
awards, legislative update, election of officers Board members and staff
9:50 a.m.
Adjourn Annual Meeting
Door Prizes (Must be present to win)
10 a.m.
The “New” Landowner Relations
Program
Rick LaFlamme, landowner
relations coordinator, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
10:20 a.m.
Tales from the Woods
George Smith, Maine author
10:50 a.m.
New Uses for Wood;
New Markets for Landowners
Hemant
Pendse, director of the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute and chair
of the Chemical and Bioengineering Department at the University of Maine
11:40 a.m.
Small Scale Biofuels Production; What It Could Mean
for Woodland Owners
Theresa Selfa, associate
professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Syracuse University
Noon
Award to Maine 2015 Outstanding Tree
Farmer
Lunch (on your own)
1 p.m.
A Little Maine Humor
Door Prizes (Must be present to win)
Gary Crocker, Maine humorist
1:20 p.m.
The Future of Wood-Using Mills;
What Changes in Wood Markets Mean for Small
Woodland Owners
Jason Brochu,
Co-President, Pleasant River Lumber
Eric Kingsley,
Vice-President, Innovative Natural
Resources Solutions
Dan McConville, Senior Consultant, Forestry and
Natural Resource Consulting Group, James W.
Sewall Company
Donna Cassese, Managing Director, Wood Resource Strategy, Sappi Fine
Paper
2 :30 p.m.
Forest Insect and Diseases; Invasive Pests and
Challenges Ahead for Woodland Owners
Bill Ostrofsky, forest
pathologist, Maine Forest Service
3:30 p.m.
Door
Prizes and Adjourn
 Hidden
Valley Nature Center, located on the Egypt Road in Jefferson, is hosting a
demonstration of an innovative Swedish low-impact forwarder. Multitek, a
Wisconsin based manufacturer and distributor of forestry equipment, has made a
Vimek 606TT Forwarder available to Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) to use
and demonstrate. This Swedish machine is a smaller, lighter, and more
economical version of forwarders generally used by logging contractors in the
US. The Vimek is highly maneuverable and well suited to low-impact forestry
operations where the landowner wants to minimize soil disturbance, keep roads
narrow, and avoid damage to remaining trees. Tracy Moskovitz, HVNC co-founder,
has been using the forwarder for several weeks. “We visited a large forestry
exhibition in Sweden and were impressed with a wide range of small and
mid-scale forestry equipment that is very suitable to Maine but generally not
available in the US. It’s great that Vimek is interested in Maine. The 27 hp
Kubota engine is incredibly efficient and the 6-wheel drive means I can easily
maneuver on our hilly terrain.”
The
demonstration will be held at Hidden Valley Nature
Center on Saturday, January 17th from noon till 2:00pm.
Participants will be able to see and operate the machine.
Hidden
Valley Nature Center was the 2014 Outstanding Tree Farmers for Maine and the 12
state Northeast region. The event is co-sponsored by the Maine Organic and
Farmers and Gardeners Association’s (MOFGA) Low Impact Forestry Program.
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January
13, 2015. Noon and 7PM – Forestry Terminology
PA Forest Stewardship Webinar: Forestry
Terminology: Jargon or Jive, January 13, 2015, noon and 7 p.m.
ET.
Sanford Smith, an Extension Specialist in Forest Resources at Penn
State, will discuss forestry terms and unique words... the rich language of
forestry. From words that have several meanings, to words that can help
explain, describe, and baffle, forestry terminology is good to know and
important to understand. https://meeting.psu.edu/paforestweb/
January
13, 2015. 1PM. Torrefaction (Biomass Consortium)
Northeast
Woody/Warm-Season Biomass Consortium Webinar: Torrefaction - Production,
Technology, and Co-firing Economics, January 13, 1 p.m. ET.
Tune in to this webinar for an inside look at Terra Green Energy, LLC, and a
discussion about its central process: torrefaction--how it works, why the
process should be considered, what advantages it introduces to biomass
handling, and the key characteristics of torrefied material. The presentation
will also address torrefaction feedstocks as well as current challenges and
next steps for the industry with a special look at the economics involved when
co-firing torrefied biomass thereby displacing a portion of coal at an
electrical generation facility. Presented by Tom Causer, President and COO,
Terra Green Energy, LLC. https://meeting.psu.edu/bioenergy
January
28, 2015. Noon. What is Live Staking
Water Resources Webinar: What Is Live Staking? An Easy and
Affordable Method for Improving Stream Banks, Wednesday, January 28,
12 – 1 p.m. ET. Presented by Jennifer Fetter and Kristin Kyler, Penn State
Extension. https://meeting.psu.edu/water1
Allyson Brownlee Muth, Ed.D.
Forest Stewardship Program Associate
The Pennsylvania State University
333 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-3208
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