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The Northern Hardwood Resource:
Where We've Come From and Where We're Heading

23-24 April 2008
Holidy Inn, Marquette, Michigan
SAF CFE: 6.5 credits, category 1

Conference Brochure
Agenda
Speaker Biographies

23 April
Conference Schedule

9:00-12:00


Registration
10:00

MSAF State Business Meeting
   - Ernie Houghton, MSAF 2008 Chair
11:00
MSAF Chapter Business Meetings
   - Tom Seablom, U.P. Chapter
   - Jason Hartman, L.P. Chapter
12:00

Lunch

1:00
Welcome
   - Ernie Houghton, MSAF 2008 Chair
1:15
History of Dukes Experimental Forest
   - Gus Erdman, retired U.S. Forest Service
2:00

Landscape Structure, Composition, and Change in the Upper Lake States:
Implications for Forest Management
   - Kim Brosofske, Michigan Technological University

  PDF paper (81 pp.- 21 mb)

2:45

Break
3:00

The Emerald Ash Borer: Program Update and Forest Management Strategies
   - Bob Heyd, Michigan DNR

  PDF slide show (74 pp. - 57 mb)   
3:45

Revisiting the Northern Hardwood Toolbox
   - Linda Nagel, Michigan Technological University

  PDF Slide Show      s


4:30


Question and Answer Session

5:30
6:30


Social Hour
Banquet and Forestry Education Fund Raffle
24 April
Conference Schedule
8:00
Morning Briefing for Field Tour
8:05

Northern Hardwood Diversity and the Wildlife Community
   - Terry Minzey, Michigan DNR

  PDF slide show (23 pp. - 180 mb)

8:50

Dukes Remeasurement
   - Christel Kern, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station

  PDF slide show (46 pp. - 3 mb)

9:35
Break / Assemble in Parking Lot
9:45-3:00

Dukes Experimental Forest Tour and Lunch
   - Gus Erdman, retired U.S. Forest Service
   - Jerry Grossman, Grossman Forestry
   - Christel Kern, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station

  Field Handout (11 pp. - 5 mb)
  Brochure from the 1995 Hardwood Management Workshop  

 

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