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"We're really talking about entrepreneur-ship when we speak of developing. Whether it's lease hunting or recreational enterprises, we're talking about developing entrepreneurs." - Jonathan Kays, University of Maryland Natural Resources Specialist

Improving Forest Habitat By Voluntary Risk Transfer

This video covers the different ways through the market that landowners can gain incentive to grow larger trees on their land and to retain trees for longer rotation periods. The presentation focuses on the risks that face forest landowners that keep them from retaining trees until they are larger.

Recreational Leasing Opportunities and Impacts on NIPF Lands

This presentation highlights how well-planned hunting lease operations can provide landowners with a reasonable, secure source of supplemental income while meeting outdoor recreation needs.

Agroforestry Options for Small Landowners

This video explores a variety of different agroforestry systems that can be used effectively by small landowners. Each speaker discusses a different aspect of agroforestry that is beneficial to the forest landowner.

Part 1 – Fire as a Tool

The presentation addresses field applications and research that support the use of fire as a tool in forest management. It describes how project LANDFIRE provides data that drives fire management, and how one can use the layers provided through LANDFIRE to develop fire management strategies.

Part 2 – Fire as a Tool - Continued

Part 2 focuses on fire and how it can be used to manage forestland areas. The first speaker focuses on the economic and ecological consequences of alternative fuel reduction methods. The next speaker discusses applying hazard reduction / ecological restoration treatments to ponderosa pine / Douglas-fir forests. The last speaker focuses on the importance of fire in re-establishing a frequent growing season.

Part 1 - Disturbance

Part 1 covers aspects of disturbance within forested ecosystems. Research examples are cited to determine the effects of different silvicultural practices on the forest understory, as well as the factors that haul roads play in the diversification of understory plant species.

Part 2 – Silviculture and Partial Harvesting: Research and Application in Forest Ecosystems of North America

Part 2 covers opportunities and obstacles of implementation of different silvicultural systems in different areas around North America. The speakers focus on selection systems and sustainable forestry in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands; sustainable silviculture in British Columbia; and even-aged and uneven-aged reproduction cutting methods .

Part 3 – Silviculture and Partial Harvesting: Research and Application in Forest Ecosystems of North America - Continued

Part 3 covers opportunities and obstacles of different silvicultural practices, in theory and in their application. The first speaker discusses different kinds of partial harvest silviculture in the Great Lakes forest region on Ontario.

Forest Certification Auditing Workshop

This workshop applies general auditing principals to unique forest management situations independent of any one forest certification system. The workshop bridges gaps between certification systems to supplement other courses and materials on environmental management system auditing, surveys of forest certification systems, and training for specific forest certification systems, rather than taking the place of training related to any one system.