The Spring 2024 Minnesota Forester Newsletter has been released! In it, you'll find a full review of the 2024 MN Forestry Get-Together & MN SAF annual meeting, The View from the Chair from Ashlee Lehner, highlights of our 2023 MN SAF award winners, a research highlight on frost cracks in northern hardwoods, and volunteer opportunities.

If you're looking to contribute a photo or a writing piece to the newsletter, feel free to reach out to Kyle or Amy, MN SAF Communications co-chairs, contact details in the newsletter.

The Minnesota Forester is a publication of the Minnesota Society of American Foresters that is published a few times per year. The May 2023 (Vol. 42 no. 1) edition highlights some organizational changes to our state and national SAF governance structures, announces an Early Career Gap Funding award, a research highlight on detecting forest health threats during inventories, committee and district updates, and an essay titled "Thoughts on a Career Path" by John Segari, one of our regularly-serving local SAF leaders. Check out the newsletter via the link above or on our newsletter page.

Date: August 11, 2022
Location: Leech Lake Reservation
Theme: Fire in Forest Management Field Tour

Thank you to our Headwaters Chapter for hosting the 2022 Minnesota SAF summer meeting and field tour! This year, the Headwaters Chapter will facilitate a tour of fire-related forest management projects at the Leech Lake Reservation. Participants should meet at 10:30 am at the MnDOT rest area parking lot located at 105 US-2, Cass Lake, MN 55633, south of Sailstar Marina. Plan to carpool and bring a lunch. The tour features three projects: prescribed burn prep, a prescribed burn completed in spring of 2022, and a wildlife prescribed burn for snowshoe hare habitat. Please contact Headwaters Chapter Chair Victoria Jari with questions at victoria.jari@state.mn.us.

The 2022 MN SAF winter meeting will again be a joint event with the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative (SFEC) annual Forestry and Wildlife Research Review.  The event is scheduled for February 15-17, 2022 and will be held at the Cloquet Forestry Center.  Planning is underway and an agenda is forthcoming.

For more detailed information and registration, please visit SFEC's website. We look forward to this opportunity to connect with other natural resource management professionals and learn about current forestry and wildlife research and practice.

Greetings MN SAF members!

Please join us for a casual and informative MN SAF Summer Meeting in St. Paul on Tuesday, August 24th from 3-5pm (with optional happy hour after). We will tour an Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project in Crosby Farm Regional Park in the floodplain forest along the Mississippi River. The project is a collaboration among the Mississippi Park Connection, The University of Minnesota, and the national ASCC program.

The tour will be a great chance to learn and see what the Mississippi Park Connection is doing to manage their urban forest where EAB and flooding have dramatically changed the forest canopy. The Park Connection will walk us through their treatments and approaches for planning this future in the context of climate change and finding suitable replacement canopy tree species for ash.

This event is for SAF members only. It is free but limited to 30 participants. Pr-registration is required via the online form below. This event has been rated for 1.5 Cat 1 CEUs.