2021
Maine’s forests through an energy lens — Presentation to Maine Forest Roundtable. Some of the implications are much wider than Maine.
Maine’s Forests Through an Energy Lens Compr
2020
Maine Sustainability and Water Conference presentation — cancelled due to Pandemic.
2019
Maine Lake Stewards Society — Maine lake ice-out dates 1807-2018.
2018
Jan. 23 Forests, farms and the Sea. Talk at Camden Public Library.
Feb. 1. Are Firefighter Fatalities Normal Accidents? Talk with Matt Carroll, USFWS, Northeast Fire Science Exchange Meeting, Portland,. Maine.
Feb. 1. Fantina Tedim and LCI, Portugal’s 2017 Pedragao Fire Disaster. Poster at above meeting.
Apr 18. SAF, Colo/ Wyo Section Durango, CO
May 9 Maine Wood and Sustainability Conference, Portland, Maine Opening introductory talk, and presentation in workshop on local and green wood.
Oct. 5. Moderator for panel on professional ethics, SAF National Convention, Portland Oregon.
Oct 19. ECANUSA conference, Fredericton, NB. Talk on Maine’s Tree Growth Tax, and poster on regionwide experience with exotic larches
2017
June 22. Northeast Silviculture Institute for Foresters, Orono, Maine.
Economics of Growing Spruce and Fir
Feb 10. Granite State Division, SAF. Attitash NH. Low grade wood markets: how did we get here?
March 8, 9. New England SAF, Bangor, Maine, Moderated panel on potential of exotic larches; Presentation on forest restoration.
March 30. Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Moderated session on Maine rivers; brief talk on cleanup of Androscoggin River.
2016.
Jan. 13. Moderated panel discussion on markets at SWOAM annual Meeting, Augusta, Maine.
Jan. 27. Moderated panel discussion on Maine’s coastal forests, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick Maine.
March 8-10. New England SAF Meeting, Sturbridge Mass. Co-author of poster on growth performance of larch in Maine.
April 29, Presentation on history and issues of public land acquisition in Maine, Maine Water Conference, Augusta, Maine.
June 18. Talk at Workshop on forest industry situation in Washington County, at Machias Maine, sponsored by Maine Forest Service.
Sept 30 Poster, and short talk on hybrid larch for carbon storage, ECANUSA, Burlington VT. Also presented talk on Daydreams and Nightmares in the Northern Forest.
November 3. Moderated panel at National SAF Convention, Madison, Wisconsin, on uses of exotic conifers in the North.
2015
Sept 29 “Street Smart Marketing for the Small Forest Products Businesses” Ag Choice Executive Training Conference, State College, PA.
June 10 Climate Change and Maine’s Forests: What we know and Don’t know. Brunswick, Maine. Univ of Southern Maine Senior College.
Apr 1 Vikings and Mongols of the 21st Century: meaning for Eastern Canada. CWF, Moncton, NB.
2014.
Mar. 10 New England Regional Conference on Forest Engineering. Presentation on lessons from previous spruce budworm outbreak.
June 4 Presentation at Smallwood Conference, Rochester MN
Oct. 9, 10 SAF/CIF/ IUFRO Conference, Salt Lake City Utah, moderator of 2 panels. One on resource assessment and one on professional ethics.
Oct. 19. ECANUSA conference, Rimouski, Quebec.
Oct. 30. Spruce budworm symposium, UMO, Orono, Maine.
2013
March. Lecture at University of Maine at Farmington Global issues lecture series.
April Panelist, side event on Private capital for forest investment at United Nations Forum on Forests – 10. Istanbul Turkey. Also co-authored background paper for this session.
May Talk on new capabilities for forest resource assessment, New England SAF. Bethel Maine
Aug. Presentation on markets at Oak Workshop, MFS, Bangor, Maine
Sept 9 Presentation at Maine Forest Products Council meeting, Sugarloaf USA, on spruce budworm – lessons learned form 1970’s and 870’s outbreak.
Oct. 15. Maine Society of American Foresters, Orono. How to keep Maine sawlogs in Maine.
2012
April. Organizer and moderator, panel on Biomass, New England Society of American Foresters, Amherst, Mass.
May. Talk on marketing practices at Smallwood Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.
May. Northeastern Annual Meeting, NCASI, Portland, Maine. Talk on effects of forest practice regulation on forest management.
July. Panel presentation, Pellet Fuels Institute National Conference, Foxwoods, Connecticut.
August Vaughan Woods, 5 Centuries of Change. Vaughn Woods Trustees, Hallowell Maine.
October Talk at Harvard Forest on forest fire risk assessment for New England
Nov. ECANUSA, Durham, NH. Expanding interfaces in the Northeast’s “Asbestos Forest”: implications for fire control programs.
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