Sustainable Forestry Education

	Sustainable Forestry Education
	Landowners - Loggers - Foresters

Goals

Provide needed continuing educational opportunities for loggers, foresters and landowners.

Improve the level of communication between loggers, foresters and landowners to enhance the sustainability of Michigan's forestlands.

Background

MSU Extension (MSUE) has been engaged in a major effort to train loggers in Michigan under the Sustainable Forestry Education (SFE) Logger Education Program. In 1996, MSU received over $300,000 from the Michigan Forest Resource Alliance and cooperating forest industries to conduct a 3-year educational program for loggers focusing on ecology and proper silviculture of Michigan forests, forest water quality best management practices, and OSHA/MIOSHA logging safety practices. To date, over 2,300 people have completed the entire SFE Core Training Program. Additionally, over 3,000 people have participated in some phase of the core program. Although loggers and foresters have been the primary audience for the program, there is also a continuing interest among private landowners and other parties. Having landowners attend is worthwhile, as loggers get to hear first-hand many of the perspectives of landowners concerning logging and forest management.

Year 2008 Program Direction

As with 2007, the SFE Logger Ed Program has a reduced schedule, with a set of sessions in the spring and again in the fall. The core training program will be offered 5 times over the course of the year. New sessions include forest soils and advocacy/lobbying. A schedule of training sessions for the 2008 calendar year is listed below.

Call toll free (866-339-1587) or 989-344-3263, or e-mail harwood9@msu.edu, for reservations.

Sessions listed in green are located in the Upper Peninsula.

Date	Time	Topic	Location
January 16	6:00-9:30pm	Visual quality management	Munising Township Hall E 9630 S Rospect St Wetmore, MI
January 17	1:00-4:30pm	Visual quality management	Grayling Township Hall 2090 Viking Way Grayling, MI
February 5	8:30am-4:30pm	Safety refresher	Presque Isle Courthouse Commissioners Room 151 E Huron Street Rogers City, MI
		Core Training Program:	Grayling Township Hall 2090 Viking Way Grayling, MI
February 5	9:00am-noon	Forest ecology/Silviculture
February 5	1:00-4:30pm	Best Management Practices
February 6	9:00am-noon	MIOSHA
February 6	1:00-4:30pm	Field Day
February 13	6:00-9:30pm	Improving forest habitat for wildlife game species Protecting threatened & endangered species	Wexford County Extension Office 401 N Lake Street Cadillac, MI
February 20	6:00pm-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Williams Township Hall 1080 W Midland Road Auburn, MI
March 5	6:00pm-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Boyne City Hall Auditorium 319 N Lake Street Boyne City, MI
March 12	9:00am-noon	Improving forest habitat for wildlife game species & Protecting threatened & endangered species	Osceola Co. Health Dept. 4329 220th Ave Reed City, MI
March 26	1:00-4:30pm	Safety refresher	Bay College M-Tec Center Room 2028 Escanaba, MI
April 1	8:30am-noon	Improving forest habitat for wildlife	Hiawatha Community Center (M-94 approx. 2 mi. N of Manistique) Manistique, MI
April 1	1:00pm-4:30pm	Forest health update	Hiawatha Community Center (M-94 approx. 2 mi. N of Manistique) Manistique, MI
April 8	1:00pm-4:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Greenland Twp Community Center 1502 Mass Ave. Mass City, MI
April 9	6:00pm-9:30pm CT	Improving forest habitat for wildlife	Gogebic Community College Room B-22 E-4946 Jackson Road Ironwood, MI
April 14	1:00pm-4:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	LMAS Health Dept. 14150 Hamilton Lake Rd. Newberry, MI
April 16	1:00pm-4:30pm	Forest health update	Mio Community Center 305 E 9th Street Mio, MI
April 16	6:00pm-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Mio Community Center 305 E 9th Street Mio, MI
April 16	1:00pm-4:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Marquette County Health Dept. 184 US Highway 41 E Negaunee, MI
		Core Training Program:	Iron River City Hall 106 W Genesee Street Iron River, MI
April 29	9:00am-noon	Forest Ecology/Silviculture
April 29	1:00-4:00pm	Best Management Practices
April 30	9:00am-noon	MIOSHA
April 30	1:00-4:00pm	Field Day	(meet at side parking lot)
September 10	6:00pm-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Wexford County Extension Office 401 N Lake Street Cadillac, MI
September 16	8:30am-4:30pm	Pulp timber cruising	Alberta, MI
September 18	6:00pm-9:30pm CT	Update on new water quality BMPs	Ironwood, MI
September 18	1:00pm-4:30pm	Pulpwood timber cruising	Mio, MI
September 24	1:00pm-4:30pm	Safety refresher	Newberry, MI
		Core Training Program:	Kincheloe, MI
September 30	9:00am-noon	Forest ecology/Silviculture
September 30	1:00-4:00pm	Best Management Practices
October 1	9:00am-noon	MIOSHA
October 1	1:00pm-4:00pm	Field Day
		Core Training Program:	Wexford County Extension Office 401 N Lake Street Cadillac, MI
October 1	9:00am-noon	Forest ecology/Silviculture
October 1	1:00-4:30pm	Best Management Practices
October 2	9:00am-noon	MIOSHA
October 2	1:00pm-4:30pm	Field Day
October 1	8:30am-4:30pm	Basic safety & maintenance	Tawas City, MI
October 8	1:00pm-4:30pm	Improving forest habitat for wildlife game species & Protecting threatened & endangered species	Bear Lake, MI
October 8	6:00-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Iron Mountain, MI
October 22	1:00-4:30pm	Improving forest habitat for wildlife	Kincheloe, MI
November 6	6:00-9:30pm	Update on new water quality BMPs	Otsego Co. Extension Multipurpose room 800 Livingston Blvd. Gaylord, MI

NOTE: These dates COULD be subject to change. It is always a good idea to call the MSUE office to confirm the location before you go just in case conflicts in scheduling have occurred.

For more information, contact:

Russell Kidd
Dist. Extension Forestry Agent
Roscommon County Extension
PO Box 507
Roscommon, MI 48653-0507
989/275-4670
email: kidd@msu.edu

Mike Schira
County Extension Director
Houghton/Keweenaw Extension
1500 Birch Street
Hancock, MI 49930
906/482-5830
email: schira@msu.edu

Last Updated: 26 December 2007