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Full Schedule

  • Friday, September 20, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM MST
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MST
    Student Tour: Explore Colorado State University’s Mountain Campus
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Biomass data under the USDOE Billion-Ton 2023
    Moderator: Maggie Davis (she/her/hers) – ORNL
    Speaker: Jeremy S. Fried, PhD – USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station
    Speaker: Maggie Davis (she/her/hers) – ORNL
    Bioenergy, Climate Change, and Carbon
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Building Capacity in Urban and Community Forests
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Donna H. Davis, ISA-CA/MS/TRAQ (she/her/hers) – Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado State University
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Empowering Family Forest Owners to Create Lasting Legacies and Sustain their Forest Resources Part 1
    Speaker: Jennifer L. Gagnon, MS – Virginia Tech
    Speaker: Ed Zimmer – Virginia Department of Forestry
    Speaker: Adam K. Downing – Virginia Cooperative Extension
    Moderator: Karen Snape (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Family Forests
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Hidden Histories of Forestry: Rethinking the Founding, Education, and Impact within American Forestry
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Leveraging the Power of Information
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Allen Gallamore
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Managing our Message
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Greg Josten
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Meeting Landowner Objectives
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Marcia Patton-Mallory
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    National Assessment of Forest Pathology
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Science Flashes 7
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Emily S. Huff, PhD – Michigan State University
  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM MST
    People, Policy, and Popcorn
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM MST
    Refreshment Break
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Building Capacity for Harvesting Operations
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Robert K. Grala – Mississippi State University
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Building Capacity: Equipping Early Career Forestry Professionals for Resource Management
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Empowering Family Forest Owners to Create Lasting Legacies and Sustain their Forest Resources Part 2
    Speaker: Jennifer L. Gagnon, MS – Virginia Tech
    Speaker: Karen Snape (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Speaker: Asija Rice, MF, CCF – Center For Heirs' Property
    Moderator: Adam K. Downing – Virginia Cooperative Extension
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Forest Service Community Navigator Initiative Panel
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Integrating Uncrewed Aerial Systems to Advance Forest Monitoring
    Submitter: Wade Tinkham, n/a (he/him/his) – Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
    Speaker: Lauren Lad (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University
    Speaker: George Woolsey (he/him/his) – USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
    Speaker: Neal Swayze (he/him/his) – Colorado State University
    Speaker: Nic Kotlinski (he/him/his) – Colorado State University
    Forest Technology
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Leveraging the Power of Information
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Kamal Gandhi, PhD – University of Georgia
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Leveraging the Power of Technology
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Kristen M. Waring, PhD (she/her/hers) – School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Managing our Message
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Emily S. Huff, PhD – Michigan State University
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST
    Science Flashes 8
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Justin Waskiewicz – Paul Smith's College
  • 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM MST
    Tour: AgroForestry – Managing the Resources
  • 11:30 AM – 5:15 PM MST
    Tour: Urban and Community Forestry – Managing the Resources
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM MST
    Explore ways to improve your leadership abilities and foster inclusive teams
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM MST
    Forestry to the People: Best Practices for Public Communication
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM MST
    Data Science for Forestry Applications with FIA