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Forest Dan’s Full Spectrum Forestry Program
Events & Schedule Dates
2011
* Feb. 14, Saturday: Thank you for coming to Forest Dan's schedule of events. Things are just beginning to happen for 2011, with a few events set. The first event each year is always Tree School, this year on Saturday March 19th at Clackamas Community College, followed the next Thursday by Tree School Umpqua at Rogue Community College on March 24th.
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/clackamas/announcement/tree-school-2011
Later in the spring/summer an event is scheduled with the South Sound chapter of the WA Farm Forest Association on June 11th Please see details below.
*Tree School
March 19th Clackamas,
March 24th Roseburg
This event, now in its 19th year, is the premier education event for forest landowners in Oregon. The Clackamas County OSU Extension under the direction of Mike Bondi has hosted this always fantastic event with the goal of providing an ever expanding range of classes, this year totaling over 70. Forest Dan will be teaching three sessions, including chainsaw filing techniques, forest work skills and the economics of firewood and your community firewood network. Tree School Umpqua is a smaller venue with essentially the same offerings. Since Tree school is such a large and well publicized event, please visit the OSU Extension website for full details of Forest Dan's and other classes.
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/clackamas/announcement/tree-school-2011
Olympia with the WA FFA June 11th
Mark Havel, a "Forest Dan" Field Day, and BBQ
Saturday, June 11, 2011, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Olympia
10:00
Mark Havel--Full Spectrum Forestry
(Realistic Forest Products in the New Economy)
This session will include an improved technique for sharpening chain saws. You maywant to bring your chain saw and a hand file.
11:30 BBQ Lunch
1:00
Mark Havel--Forest Skills and Equipment
This event will give you a chance to see Ken and Bonnie Miller's Tree Farm and the old growth forest of Millersylvania State Park, which abuts their tree farm.
Burgers, beverages, paper plates, and plastic wear will be provided. Please bring a salad or dessert. To assist us with the preparing food and setting up, please RSVP to Brian LeTourneau at:
BrianL4802@aol.com
(or call 360 943-8774) before June 8.
Please let him know, how many people will be attending.
Who:
Mark Havel, a graduate of Oregon State University, works as an industrial engineer designing and manufacturing equipment, for low impact forestry. He helped create the Oregon Forest Industries Directory at Oregon State University, which he uses to help market forest products such as firewood and
clear poles. He puts on forest field day demonstrations in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere around the U.S. He is an instructor at the Oregon Tree School held at Clackamas Community College every March. He lives on his tree farm in Willamina, Oregon.
Mark Havel created "Forest Dan,." whose motto is "no child left inside," to promote forest stewardship, low impact forestry, and forestry education. His innovative equipment, creative ideas, and enthusiasm for forestry have made him a well-known figure in NW forestry.
Where:
Ken and Bonnie Miller's Tree Farm, 11801 Tilley Road, Olympia, WA 98512
Directions:
From the North: Take I-5 to exit 99 (93rd Ave), 5 miles south of Olympia. As you exit, stay in the left lane of the off ramp. Turn left (east) onto 93rd Ave SW and go 1.5 miles to Tilley Road S. (WA 121). Turn right onto Tilley Road S. and go 2.5 miles. If you go past the main entrance to Millersylvania State Park, you have gone too far. On arrival at 11801 Tilley Road S., turn right and follow the rather straight gravel road for approximately 1 mile through the old growth timber of the State Park. Ken and Bonnie Miller's tree farm lies at the end of the road.
From the South: Take I-5 north to exit 95 (Littlerock/Maytown). As you exit, stay to the right. Turn right onto Maytown Road SW and go 2.4 miles. Turn left onto Tilley Road S (WA-121) and go 1.2 miles, passing the main entrance to Millersylvania State Park on your left. On arrival at 11801 Tilley Road S., turn left and follow the rather straight gravel road approximately 1 mile through the old growth timber of the State Park. Ken and Bonnie Miller's tree farm lies at the end of the road.
Schedule for Upcoming Meetings:
June 18th
OR – WA Forest Owners Field Day, near Gilmer WA (north of White Salmon in W. Klickitat Co)
July 9th
ID – WA Forest Owners Field Day, near Kellogg ID
July 13 – Tree Farm Tour – Chuck Chambers
August 10 – Webster Seedling Nursery Tour
August 20th
Western WA Forest Owners Field Day, near Chimicum WA, south of Port Townsend
2010 Schedule
Feb. 14, Saturday. Forest Dan will host a tree planting and seedling survival workshop. Held at Forest Dan’s home forest property 9am till noon, it has been advertised to the Small Woodlands Association and through the Oregon Dept of Forestry. Interested parties are welcome to contact Forest Dan for directions to his Willamina OR area property as everyone is welcome.
March 21, Saturday. Forest Dan will teach classes at Tree School, Clackamas C.C.
1 Chainsaw Sharpening Workshop 8:15 am -9;45 A sharp chainsaw makes a happy feller or forest gal. Bring your saw to this class on sharpening techniques, Learn what you need to know about sharpening as well as good chainsaw techniques. No saw too small or too large. Bring files and gloves if you use them already. Beginners are welcome, but this class is also good for experienced filers too; no minimum chainsaw knowledge assumed or required, leave with a bunch.
2 Tree Felling; Theory and demonstration, for WOMEN only; 10;30 am till noon Take this class for a sensible approach to working in the woods safely and effectively with a chainsaw, axes and other great tools. This is a techniques class that will discuss and demonstrate easy principles of physics applied to felling trees. Methods you will take home and use every day you are in the woods. Bring warm clothing for this outdoor class.
3 Tree Felling; Theory and demonstration for MEN only; 1;30 till 3pm Take this class to know the techniques behind safe, effective and accurate chainsaw work. This is an applied physics class that will cover all of the basics, but more importantly apply felling techniques to all sorts of situations. Work smart, work easy, work safely. Bring warm clothing for this outdoor class.
March 23, 24, Monday, Tuesday; Forest Dan will speak at the Idaho Forest Landowner conference, Moscow Idaho, The first is for 45 minutes on "Private Forest Land Owner Stewardship" and the second one for 30 minutes covering "Realistic Management Opportunities in the New Economy".
March 26th Forest Dan will present a class at Tree School Umpqua, Roseburg OR at Umpqua Community College, titled Practical Ideas for Managing Your woodlands. If you are looking for innovative tools and techniques for managing your woodlands, don’t miss this class. You’ll be introduced to the latest ideas to solve tasks like pruning 30 feet up a tree, thinning in young dense stands where everything is a “hang-up” and moving logs with equipment as small as an ATV. Lots of tricks and techniques will be shared by an experienced woodland owner, creative engineer and inventor. You will be in the field all afternoon.
April 18 WOW (Women Owning Woodlands) Lane county chapter will have Forest Dan present a session on active forest management, techniques, markets and specialty products. The session will include topics of equipment, clothing, safety gear, tools of all kinds, chainsaw techniques and sharpening, tree felling techniques, limbing and bucking, firewood efficiencies, small scale logging practices and equipment as well as discussion of large scale processes. It will be light hearted while focusing on serious work done safely and effectively. If you would like more than this description, please let me know.
April 28-30 Forest Dan will present topics and ideas for furthering educational opportunities, based on his programs in Oregon. Knowing folks from all over the country, and having met Eli Sagor in Minnesota many times in previous visits, the primary goal will be to share the concepts and program details of the Howdy Neighbor / Full Spectrum Forestry Field Days that he has initiated on the west coast. Contact Eli Sagor of the U of MN for more info on this invitation-only event, for forestry leaders in the mid-west.
Eli Sagor
Extension Educator, Natural Resource Management & Utilization
University of Minnesota Extension
1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108
phone: (612) 624-6948 fax: (612) 625-5212
http://www.MyMinnesotaWoods.org
http://woodlandownernetworks.wordpress.com/2009-symposium/
June 5 -7th, Forest Dan will be participating in several events at the Oregon Small Woodlands Association annual meeting (on the 5th) Rogue Tree School on the 6th and an OSWA / Forest Dan Howdy Neighbor program on the 7th. The Rogue Tree School class taught by Forest Dan will be a southern Oregon version of the Umpqua Tree School program titled “Practical Ideas for Managing Your Woodlands”. The Howdy Neighbor program is hosted by Forest Dan with an initial introduction to the Full Spectrum of Forestry, followed by three, one-hour sessions of lively discussion on 1) These Fabulous Forests of Oregon, 2) Valuable Forest Products and other Marketable Attributes and 3) Enterprise, family forest assets and all things down on paper.
June 13th Forest Dan will participate in the Oregon Woodland Co-op annual meeting panel discussions , followed by a demonstration of the Firewood Processor he has recently developed. The OR Woodland Co-op www.orwoodlandco-op.com is a long term organization with many aspects of helping landowners manage their properties.
July 28th Forest Dan, along with landowner Aaron White and Extension forester Rick Fletcher will conduct a thinning workshop from 3pm until we are done. Aaron White is the chapter president of the Linn County Small Woodlands Association, and has led many tours and workshops on his property. In this case, Forest Dan will be demonstrating tools from his previous business of Future Forestry Products Inc, including Log Arches and pruning tools, along with a complete set of techniques to effectively and ergonomically work in the forest. Please see www.oswa.org and look up the Linn County chapter.
July 31-Aug 1 Skagit County WA will host the WA DNR Forestry Field day and Forest Dan will participate as an instructor and presenter. On Three occasions during the two days, Forest Dan will give a presentation on the Full Spectrum of Forestry, to help attendees better understand the complexity of forestland ownership, in order to better benefit from the various classes being offered. At 5 other times, Forest Dan will lead active in-the-woods workshop classes on active forestry management techniques, including equipment and skills. Please see www.wadnr.gov under stewardship programs.
Aug 19th Forest Dan, as chapter president of the Marion-Polk county Small Woodlands Association, will be hosting a presentation, but also moderating a discussion of Cap and Trade Legislation, Climate Change and Carbon Credit trading. The invited speaker is Todd Wynn of the Cascade Policy Institute, who will be arguing that Cap and Trade is not a hot way to curb climate change. OSWA (Oregon Small Woodlands Association ) is party to the Western Carbon Co., who are actively trying to aggregate forest lands to sell carbon credits from. Members don’t know quite what to make of all of this, so we will have a moderated discussion, with Forest Dan as the moderator.
Aug 22nd Forest Dan started the West Valley Firewood Network last fall, and had a couple events at his place demonstrating forestry methods and firewood processing. With the help of others in the network, it is growing albeit slowly, and we will have a forestry and firewood processing demonstration at member Brad Kelley’s property. Forest Dan hopes to modify the Forest Dan website to allow a user interface network listing for folks nation-wide, to search by zipcode and be able to duplicate the network that Forest Dan started near home. Near home is where it is at! Let’s stop driving all over!
Aug 29th Forest Dan will be demonstrating his new firewood processor design at the Benton County tree farmer of the year tour at Nancy Hathaway’s property near Kings Valley OR. Contact the Oregon Small Woodlands Association for more info. www.oswa.org.
Sept 12th Forest Dan, again as OSWA chapter president, will be leading a tour of waterfalls and old growth stands near Mollalla OR in the Butte Creek basin. This is an OSWA event, but guests are always welcome! There is no charge, but we do need an rsvp at 503 876 4488, Forest Dan’s office phone.
Sept 19 Forest Dan is helping the Idaho Forest Landowners Association put on a Forestry Field Day. Modeled after the Howdy Neighbor Field Days we have presented in Oregon with the Oregon Small Woodlands Association, this will be a one-day, free and open to the public event. Forest Dan will present the Full Spectrum Of Forestry, then introduce the speakers and experts in various fields for the remainder of the day. Forest Dan will also lead workshop segments on Tools and Techniques for effective and ergonomic forest operation. The event will take place near Clark Fork ID. See www.idahoforestowners.org for more info
Please call or e-mail Forest Dan for further information;
503 876 4488, forest.dan@forestdan.com
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