Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals - WFW

Workshop Agenda for:	Managing Forested Ecosystems (MFE)
Date:	Reqeust through AgLearn or email National Program Leader
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A Workshop for Natural Resources Professionals Specifically of interest to Silviculturists and Biologists.

Purpose & Learning Objectives:

To provide a learning environment where silviculturists, biologists and related natural resources professionals can explore opportunities and techniques for managing forest structure and composition to achieve compatible objectives for ecosystem management.
To provide a basis for evaluating and managing all successional stages of forest vegetation.
To stimulate partnerships between natural resources professionals.
To emphasize efficiency and effectiveness of project implementation through coordination of goals.

General Agenda:

As a registered participant you will receive more detailed information as the vendor progresses in the development of the workshop.

Day 1: Monday

8:00	Welcome
	Orientation
	USFSWashington Office Overview of Ecosystem Management
	Scientific Basis of Ecosystem Management Unconfirmed
	Group Discussion & Exercise
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Principles of Landscape Ecology

Day 2: Tuesday

8:00	Application of Landscape Ecology to Forest Management
	Outside the Agency: approach to Ecosystem Management
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Rare Plants Management
	Planning exercise and discussion

Day 3: Wednesday

8:00	All-day Field Trip

Day 4: Thursday

8:00	Impacts of Disturbances and Aquatic Monitoring
12:00	Lunch
	Forest Health Management
	Ecological Land Classification

Day 5: Friday

8:00	Adaptive Management
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Partial Harvests and regeneration methods in So. App. Hardwoods
	Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Management

Day 6: Saturday

Day 7: Sunday

Free time

Day 8: Monday - Litchfield Beach

8:00	Coastal Plain Ecosystems and Field Trip to Hobcaw Barony
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Stand Dynamics in Ecosystem Management

Day 9: Tuesday

8:00	Stand Dynamics in Ecosystem Management
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Stand Dynamics in Ecosystem Management

Day 10: Wednesday - Silviculture for Ecosystem Management

8:00	Silvicultural Principals, Uneven-Aged Silviculture, Wildlife Management, and Even-Aged Stands
	Wildlife Examples, Two-Aged Stands and Uneven-aged Hardwood Management
	Group Discussion
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Group Selection, Single-tree selection and Wildlife Management within Ecosystem Management
	Group discussion of defining and Implementing Ecosystem Management silviculture for specific forest types, stand structures and habitat objectives.

Day 11: Thursday

8:00	National Forest Field Trip (all day)
	Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration at an urban interface; EM and RCW recovery
	Landscape Modeling to link timber and wildlife habitat

Day 12: Friday

8:00	Ecosystem Management in the real world
	Where do we go from here?
11:00 - 12:00	Workshop Evaluation

Logistics:

Paying Tuition:

Dropping from the Workshop: Pretty simple -- find a sub or pay fixed cost. The budget has been set and spent based on your current confirmation. Check with us first, just in case we have a waiting list. Thank you for your understanding and consideration.

Travel: TBA