(Not) Counting Trees

Yesterday, I presented at the Wisconsin Cooperating Foresters Statewide Meeting in Stevens Point. In addition to the more extensive materials posted yesterday, here is a pdf of my presentation.

The meeting is co-sponsored by the WNDR-Forestry and Wisconsin Consulting Foresters.

UPDATED Mar 23--There are lots of changes packed into the Legislative Council Special Committee recommendations on the MFL (see this post and this other one). The path to passage is unclear (given everything else), but folks with an interest in private lands, forest management, local government, and economic development should pay attention and, more importantly, get involved!

As promised, the the videos from the Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit have been posted. I didn't see an easy way to embed them in this post, so I just post the links.

Yesterday was the 2010 Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit hosted by the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative. I was asked to present as part of panel on biomass research supply related to our new study to survey the logging sector.

On Tuesday of last week, I presented at 2010 North Central Forest Pest Workshop in Elkhart Lake, WI.

I don't typically give presentations to the general public, but this

Earlier this week, I participated in a meeting of Wisconsin's Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Operations Team. WisconsinEye (i.e., WI C-Span) captured the meeting on camera and posted the video and audio here.

Yesterday I was in Florence, WI to co-present on the logging sector. Warren Suchovsky (Master Logger) and I provided information on the status of the sector and how it has changed and likely will change in the future. A pdf (1.4 MB) of the PowerPoint is available here.

Eli Sagor (University of Minnesota) presented portions of our work on social networks and peer-to-peer learning as part of this year's Society of American Foresters' (SAF) National Convention as part of the Forest Policy session.

He captured the audio, linked it the powerpoint presentation, and posted it on the web. It is available for viewing here.