This is our most important annual gathering: a time to take care of essential business, connect with colleagues new and old, and discuss management practices, new developments, and issues important to our profession.

The 2015 meeting will focus on current and emerging technology and research, and how we can effectively apply these to increase our efficiency. This meeting will present methods to integrate emerging technologies in the areas of LiDAR, UAVs and GIS into our workplace needs and include practical in the field examples of how these perform. The meeting will also identify current research topics in the areas of hardwood management, red pine and fire, black ash and forest inventory and we’ll discuss what the results mean for the practicing forester.

Download a detailed agenda (PDF) here. Speakers include:

Dr. Rolf Weberg, Director of NRRI, Duluth MN,
Cheryl Adams, UPM Blandin
Dr. Alan Ek, Professor and Head, Department of Forest Resources, UofM
Bill Nixon & Nathan Eide, Lake County Land Department
Dr. Christel Kern, Research Forester, USDA
Joe Harris, Forestry Fuels Specialist, Red Lake Reservation
Dr. Brian Palik, Team Leader and Research Ecologist, USDA
John Beck, Northland College, UAS Instructor
John Carlson, MN DNR Forestry
Donn Downey, Forest Metrix

We will have our annual business and chapter meetings, the morning of the 27th, with speakers in the afternoon. The second day will include break-out sessions focusing on research or technology.

The event will be at the Grand Ely Lodge Resort & Conference Center (218-365-6565; 218-365-2840 (fax) or www.grandelylodge.com). A block of rooms is reserved. Mention that you are with the SAF group for the rate of $99.95/single, $189.95/double per night.

MNSAF Winter Meeting, January 2015

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