I'm sharing here the content and some details from the webinar titled as above on April 16, 2025.  The archived webinar is here.

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Many woodlands give the appearance of vigor and health because the vegetation is lush and green. However, the mixture of species is important as this determines the future of the woods, and the services it can provide. A concept known as the…

New Climate Adaptation and Forest Carbon training from the Silviculture Institute available to all online

On October 11-12 of this year, 50 foresters attended graduate level training in Climate Adaptation and Forest Carbon in a new Module of the…

Have you noticed areas with maples looking not as healthy as others? Maple decline is not due to a disease or pest but can be from various stress factors. During Stressors of Maple: Dieback and Mortality, learn about some of the causes attributed to poor maple health and canopy dieback.

We will discuss a case study of a northern hardwood landscape in the Upper Great Lakes region, where maple dieback has been associated with impacts from invasive…

In recent years there have been a couple books that assert, at some level, that trees have attributes typically only associated with rationale sentient beings.  I have read neither book, but the descriptions of those shared with me by several people didn't align with my understanding of, roughly, rocks and minerals, soil, microbes, plants, mammals, and humans...a progression towards sentience.

Two recent publications have called into question the validity of asserting that trees talk,…