Deer Impact Assessment and Mitigation Summit

Earn SFI Continuing Education credits while getting an overview of understanding, assessing, and managing deer impact in the landscape.

When: March 25 & 30

            April 1 

            (12:00 PM - 2:00 PM) 

Registration Deadline: March 21, 2021 (11:00 AM)

Cost: $35 for credit seeking attendees. Participants will also need to submit these workshops to the Pennsylvania SFI Implementation Committee using our
Non-PA SFI Course Credit Form. This will cost an additional $20.

CE Credit: SFI Training participants must attend all 3 sessions in order to receive credit.

Details: https://extension.psu.edu/deer-impact-assessment-and-mitigation-summit

This webinar series counts for 1 year of Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC” - this is in addition to your registration fee) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Basic Chainsaw Safety

 Penn State Extension; Pennsylvania Forest Online Seminar Series

Date: March 9, 2021                                                                                             Times: noon - 1:00 PM and 7:00 - 8:00 PM, eastern time. Questions often last an extra 15 to 20 minutes                                                                              Registration: REGISTER HERE FOR LIVE WEBINAR

Presentation summary: Mike Powell from Penn State University will provide a basic review of chainsaw safety, maintenance, operation, and purchasing. The Pennsylvania Forest Seminar: Basic Chainsaw Safety webinar will cover personal protective equipment, preventive measures to keep your saw running properly, hazard tree recognition, and things to consider when purchasing a new chainsaw.

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Forest Health, Insect, and Disease Update

Earn SFI Continuing Education credits as we review the status of Pennsylvania's forest insect and disease problems and important forest health updates and information.

When: Feb. 23 & 25, 

            March 2 & 4 

            (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, or 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM) 

Registration Deadline: February 22, 2021 (11:00 AM)

Cost: $35 for credit seeking attendees. Participants will also need to submit these workshops to the Pennsylvania SFI Implementation Committee using our Non-PA SFI Course Credit Form. This will cost an additional $20.

CE Credit: SFI Training participants must attend all 4 sessions in order to receive credit.

Details: https://extension.psu.edu/forest-health-insect-and-disease-update

This webinar series counts for 1 year of Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC” - this is in addition to your registration fee) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Natural Area Management Services - Advanced Level II

Join this eight-part series and learn about expanding Green Industry services to your clientele, and earn SFI continuing education credits.

When: Tuesdays and Thursdays
            Feb. 23, 25, 2021
            Mar. 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, & 18, 2021
            (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET) 

Registration Deadline: February 23, 2021 (7:00 PM)

Cost: $40 ($65 with Woodland Health Practices Handbook). Participants will also need to submit these workshops to the Pennsylvania SFI Implementation Committee using our Non-PA SFI Course Credit Form. This will cost an additional $20.

CE Credit: SFI Training participants must attend all 8 sessions in order to receive credit.

DETAILS: https://extension.psu.edu/natural-area-management-services-advanced-level-ii

This webinar series counts for 2 years of Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC” - this is in addition to your registration fee) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Forest Management for Increasing Carbon Sequestration with Biochar

Forestry and Natural Resources Webinar Portal

Date: February 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Registration: You do not need to pre-register for this webinar
http://forestrywebinars.net/webinars/forest-management-for-increasing-carbon-sequestration-with-biochar?sr=wp~mkt-dayOf

Presentation summary:  This is the first webinar in the Biochar series for 2021. This webinar will cover aspects related to forest management approaches that can help with negative emissions technologies to increase C sequestration and retention in two ways: (1) apply silvicultural practices that change residual tree growing space by increasing the allocation of that space, water, and nutrients for increased growth and (2) use the current non- value removed biomass to create biochar. In addition the presentation will cover how C sequestered during biochar application, in combination with sustainable biomass production, can be C negative and therefore used to actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere with different applications. 

 

Presented By:

Carlos Rodriguez Franco, Senior forester with the USDA Forest Service Research and Development

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

The Digital Toolbox for the Woodland Owner: There's an app for that!

 Forestry and Natural Resources Webinar Portal

Date: February 9, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Registration: You do not need to pre-register for this webinar
http://forestrywebinars.net/webinars/the-digital-toolbox-for-the-woodland-owner-theres-an-app-for-that?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub

Presentation summary: There are many tools available to help you manage your land. Map, assess and understand your land’s potential. Join this webinar to learn more about what tools are available and how they can be used to get you started managing your land!

Presented By:

• Jeff Fellers, Clemson University
• Derrick Phinney, Clemson University
• Ellen Crocker, University of Kentucky
• Jennifer Gagnon, Virginia Cooperative Extension 

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Fostering Old Forest Conditions Through Structural Complexity Enhancement

Penn State Extension; Pennsylvania Forest Online Seminar Series

Date: February 9, 2021                                                                                             Times: noon - 1:00 PM and 7:00 - 8:00 PM, eastern time. Questions often last an extra 15 to 20 minutes                                                                              Registration: REGISTER HERE FOR LIVE WEBINAR

Presentation summary: The vast majority of Pennsylvania’s forests are middle-aged, with most trees in a stand or forest community being of the same age, often around 100 years old. However, efforts to foster resiliency and favorable habitat conditions across the landscape, statewide, and regionally focus on the need to diversify forest succession at a large scale, creating more early-successional (young forest) and late-successional/old growth (older forest) conditions. Join Penn State Extension for Pennsylvania Forest Seminar: Fostering Old Forest Conditions Through Structural Complexity Enhancement webinar to get a better understanding of how with good management, creating young forest habitat is relatively straightforward, setting back succession through monitored disturbance (as with a timber harvest). But working toward older forest conditions can be a less straightforward process for landowners who want to foster those conditions through active management.

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Getting Old: What’s Next For Even-aged Forests

 Cornell University - Forest Connect

Date: January 20, 2021
Time: noon - 1:00 PM, eastern time
           and 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Registration: You need a free personal registration ID to join this month’s webinar:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5IRFqn7oSYm5D-Vyqb8-3Q

If prompted for a password use “Cornell”

After registration, which includes a question about whether you want CEU credits, you will receive the link to the webinar and a password. It should go without saying that you should retain this email. The registration email provides the link you will use the day of the webinar. 


Presentation summary:

The presentation will review alternatives for dealing with maturing even-aged stands including: 1. doing nothing, 2. replacing an entire stand in one of two steps, or 3. gradually converting a stand to a two- or multi-aged condition. Key requirements include having or getting abundant and well-developed advance regeneration, keeping vigorous upper canopy trees as the residuals with any of the partial cutting strategies, adding a new age class after each entry, and ensuring freedom from interference or intense herbivory.

Presented By:
Dr. Ralph Nyland, SUNY-ESF Distinguished Service Professor (emeritus)

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Streamside Buffers and Live Stake Planting

Penn State Extension; Pennsylvania Forest Online Seminar Series

Date: January 12, 2021                                                                                             Times: noon - 1:00 PM and 7:00 - 8:00 PM, eastern time. Questions often last an extra 15 to 20 minutes                                                                              Registration: REGISTER HERE FOR LIVE WEBINAR

Presentation summary: Pennsylvania has over 86,000 miles of streams, more than any other state. Most of our streams run through our forest lands and woodlots, but many run through fields and yards, as well. Join Penn State Extension for the Pennsylvania Forest Seminar: Streamside Buffers and Live Stake Planting webinar to learn how to repair eroding banks and what trees to plant.

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Assessing and Mitigating Deer Impacts on Woodlands

Penn State Extension; Pennsylvania Forest Online Seminar Series

Date: December 8, 2020                                                                                             Times: noon - 1:00 PM and 7:00 - 8:00 PM, eastern time. Questions often last an extra 15 to 20 minutes                                                                                   Registration: REGISTER HERE FOR LIVE WEBINAR

Presentation summary: White-tailed deer are prevalent throughout most eastern US forests and woodlands. As selective browsers they preferentially reduce the abundance of some plant species and as a result may indirectly increase the abundance of less palatable plant species. Several methods are available to assess if deer are impacting tree seedlings and other understory plants. Property size and ownership objectives influence the options available to limit deer impact. Traditional methods of reducing deer impact haven’t proven to be effective but may contribute to efforts that exclude deer. The Pennsylvania Forest Seminar: Assessing and Mitigating Deer Impacts on Woodlands webinar will address methods to assess deer impact as well as small and large-scale methods to reduce the impact of deer on forest vegetation.

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Seeing Past the Green - Managing High-Graded Woodlots

Penn State Extension; Pennsylvania Forest Online Seminar Series

Date: November 10, 2020                                                                                             Times: noon - 1:00 PM and 7:00 - 8:00 PM, eastern time. Questions often last an extra 15 to 20 minutes                                                                                   Registration: REGISTER HERE FOR LIVE WEBINAR

Presentation summary: High-grading, a commonly used method to harvest timber on private forests in Pennsylvania, involves the removal of the most economically valuable trees. Caring for high-graded forests often presents landowners with unique challenges and considerations. The Pennsylvania Forest Seminar: Seeing Past the Green - Managing High-Graded Woodlots webinar will cover common characteristics of forests that have been high-graded in the past, and strategies to improve the quality of high-graded woodlots.

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.

Woods for Wildlife: Forestry for Birds and Commonly Used Herbicides for Habitat Management

 Forestry and Natural Resources Webinar Portal

Date: November 5, 2020
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Registration: You do not need to pre-register for this webinar
http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/woods-for-wildlife-forestry-for-birds-and-commonly-used-herbicides-for-habitat-management?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub

Presentation summary:

Managing forest habitat for birds doesn’t have to be difficult and often aligns closely with familiar forestry practices. Learn what bird species rely on forests, why their presence is a quick and dependable indicator of forest health, and how to use this information to speak with both foresters and landowners to maximize forest productivity across multiple disciplines. This webinar will also cover methods, tools, and application rates of herbicides frequently used in habitat management.

Presented By:
Aimee Tomcho, Conservation Biologist, Audubon North Carolina
Benjy Strope, Private Lands Management Biologist, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

*** Please note: Continuing Education credits are not available for reviewing recorded webinars. You must participate in the live seminar to receive credit.

This webinar counts for 1 hour of PA SFI Continuing Education (C.E.) credit. You must complete 3 additional hours of C.E. credit to add 1 year to your training card expiration date. Individuals seeking C.E. credit must submit a completed Non-SFI Course C.E. credit form (Please request that the webinar administrator send PA SFI confirmation of your participation), a course agenda or certificate of completion, and a $20 administrative fee (Check made payable to “PA SIC”) to the PA SFI office. Continuing Education credit can only extend your PA SFI Training Card expiration date by a maximum of 3-years from the current calendar year. Please refer to the PA SFI Training Policy for a complete description of the program requirements.