Guild Events
How to Heat with Woody Biomass in the Southwest, August 3–4, 2009
A workshop on developing and using small-scale biomass thermal applications at the Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico. The goals of the workshop are to provide accessible information about biomass thermal applications to a diverse local audience focusing on community-scaled projects and to offer ample opportunities for participants to build relationship and contacts The workshop will focus on the nuts and bolts of how to heat facilities with wood and include detailed presentations on: - Fuel Supply: Where is the wood and is it available?
- Combustion Technology Options
- Project Economics and Financial Incentives
- Air Quality
- Examples of Successful Biomass Heating facilities
Northwest Regional Guild Gathering, August 14–16, 2009
Guild members will gather in Miracle Beach, on the east side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.This meeting will be an opportunity to take a deeper look at the natural world we live and work in, using quantum science to expand our awareness of our connection with all living things. Every life form that we encounter in the forest is making a statement by its very presence about its "fitting" in the site that it occupies. How well does it partner in the continuous design and patterning of that site? What have we learned, as an "invasive species," about our fitting in the forest? What more can we learn about our partnering in this continuous design?
Interspersed with our discussions will be opportunities to tour Harold Macy's Headquarters Creek Woodlot, a long-term stewardship on Crown (government) Land, and the Pottage Family Forest where we will view and talk about their unique management programs. For more information please contact either Jean Shaffer, 360-459-0946,
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Forest Guild 2009 Southeast Regional, Meeting November 7–8, 2009
Join Forest Guild members and friends November 7-8 in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains on the beautiful campus of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa (just east of Asheville). The meeting will begin on Saturday with a morning field tour to the forests of Biltmore Estate and afternoon tours at the USFS Bent Creek Experiment Station and the Warren Wilson College forest. The Sunday half-day program will feature local speakers on the history and status of forestry in the region. A minimal registration fee (to be announced) will cover van rental, refreshments, etc. There will be a group dinner outing in Asheville on Saturday night as well as a preconference dinner gathering for early arrivers on Friday, November 6. Camping and lodging information will be announced soon!
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Sustaining Rural Communities and Forests, National Network of Forest Practitioners Annual Meeting, May 4–7, 2009
The conference, "Sustaining Rural Communities and Forests," will gather practitioners from across the nation working to create sustainable jobs for rural communities in conservation and management of forests, as well as value-adding of sustainably produced forest products. The meeting will be held in Steelville, Missouri which is 1 1/2 hours south of St. Louis. Field trips will feature the 160,000-acre Pioneer Forest and small forest businesses that rely on itTopics will include:
- Forest-Based Cooperatives
- Forest Land Care
- Stewardship Contracting and Forest Restoration
- Organic Wild Harvest and processing of NTFPs
- Sustainable Forestry and Carbon Credits
- FSC Group Certification and Green Building
- Web Marketing and the Green Consumer
- Funding and Community-Based Forestry
- National Policy to Sustain Communities and Forests
For more information visit: http://nnfp.us/Activities/AnnualMeeting.htm
Southern Draft Animal Days, September 18–20, 2009
Field demonstrations: Plowing, Planting, Picking and more. The event will be in Midway, Tennessee and hosted by the Healing Harvest Forest Foundation. For more information www.southerndraftanimalsdays.com.
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