In this issue...
Date: Wednesday, April 17
Presenter: Corporal Andrew Smart
Sponsored by: Maine Woodland Owners
Join Maine Woodland Owners for an opportunity for landowners and recreational land users to hear from one of the state’s Landowner Relations corporals. Corporal Andrew Smart helps keep private land accessible by ensuring owners receive the support needed to maintain a good relationship with users of their property. During this program, Smart will present information and answer questions related to private land access laws and best practices for those who rely on private land to conduct their recreational activities.
Presenter: Tom Doak, Executive Director for Maine Woodland Owners
Sponsored by: Maine Woodland Owners
Join Maine Woodland Owners' Executive Director, Tom Doak, for his online presentation aimed at assisting new woodland owners in considering the crucial aspects of woodland ownership and management. This program is part of an educational series specifically tailored to individuals who are new to the realm of woodland ownership and management.
Sponsored by: Maine Woodland Owners
Knowing the trees in your woods is an important part of woodland ownership. Learn the characteristics and techniques that makes identifying tree species simple!
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Probert Memorial Forest, Searsport
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Brownville Woods, Brownville
- Clifford Woods, Farmington
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Wiesendanger Wildlife Protection Area, Winthrop
For more information, contact Jenn Hicks, Director of Outreach & Communications at [email protected], 207.626.0005
Location: VFW, 81 Houlton Road, Island Falls
Presenter: Jack Houtz, Forest Technician with UMaine Forests
Sponsored by: Maine Woodland Owners
Learn about saw handling and maintenance, protective equipment, firewood cutting and tree felling in this beginner, hands-on program. Use your own saw or one provided at the event. Some safety gear is available.
The class is limited to 12 people and cost is $25 and includes lunch.
Pre-Registration is required.
Location: Jeff’s Catering, 15 Littlefield Wat, Brewer, ME
The Forest Resources Association (FRA) Forestry meeting that was postponed due to weather has been rescheduled was for April 18. The discussions will center around “Climate Smart Forestry,” presented by Alec Giffen, a forester and Senior Advisor with the New England Forestry Foundation.
The New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) was has been awarded $30 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. NEFF and its partners will use this money to help forest landowners implement climate-smart forest practices that also support ecosystem health and biodiversity. The partnership includes more than 20 companies, organizations, and institutions from across New England that represent forest-related industries.
Join NEFF to hear how this project is developing, and how it can impact forest management, supply chains and markets. Goals of the project include:
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Climate-smart forestry incentives for practices that accelerate carbon storage in working forests for a pilot group of forest landowners across all six New England states, including on large commercial forests, smaller family woodlots and First Nation woodlands
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Market-building for climate-smart forest products, with a focus on mass timber construction
- Monitoring, verification, and reporting to document and ensure additive carbon benefits.
Pre-registration is requested to ensure an accurate headcount for meals. Meals ($35 for nonmembers or $25 for members) can be purchased at the door with check, cash or credit card.
For more information, please contact Eric Kingsley at (207) 233-9910, [email protected]
Eastern Hemlock cross-laminated timber (CLT) is certified for production
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S., March 22, 2024 Eastern Hemlock, a ubiquitous and underutilized evergreen tree species in the northeastern United States, is now available for commercial cross-laminated timber (CLT) building projects for the first time after a multi-year project brings the tree species to the market. CLT is part of the new mass timber construction technique that uses glued pieces of lumber to make beams and large solid wood panels for floors and walls. Up until now, only timber species from the south and western U.S. and outside the country were available for CLT buildings.
Funded by a grant from the USDA Forest Service, the Eastern Hemlock Cross Laminated Timber Certification and Demonstration Project has taken initial demonstration work conducted with Eastern Hemlock at the University of Massachusetts in 2019 by Dr. Peggi Clouston, Professor, of Wood Mechanics and Timber Engineering, Building and Construction Technology, to the formal certification phase, allowing it to be used in commercial buildings. Now this ground-breaking work has also spurred on full commercialization of the species of tree and the mass timber building technology so that CLT panels are now installed as part of two commercial building projects in the northeast region and more are on the way.
According to WoodWorks, a national non-profit organization that advocates and provides technical support for building construction with wood, the northeast US has seen 168% growth in built mass timber projects over the last two and a half years. For the hemlock project, CLT manufacturer SmartLam participated in the first phase at their plant in Alabama while ongoing commercialization is occurring at the Phoenix, Illinois CLT manufacturer Sterling Structural where builders can now purchase CLT made from the species.
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