September 21, 2024
8am-4pm, Location to be announced soon.
This field conference is all about forests – threats, management practices, and ways that we can enhance their resilience and overall health. The day will be full of field-based presentations and walks on critical and emerging topics related to forest stewardship and conservation. Pre-registration is required and all are welcome! See below for the conference program, with new information added regularly as speakers are confirmed!
Location to be announced soon!
Online Registration for this event will be available soon.
Thank you for your interest!
Schedule of Events – Coming Soon
Guy Dunkle is a Land Manager with the Foundation for Sustainable Forests, with over 19 years of experience practicing sustainable forestry across northwest PA and western NY.
Troy Firth is the Founder and President of the Foundation for Sustainable Forests, with over 45 years of experience practicing sustainable forestry and production of maple syrup. Troy is the recipient of the 2019 WeConservePA (formerly Pennsylvania Land Trust Association) Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council’s Western Pennsylvania Environmental Award.
Rosalie Haizlett is an illustrator, author and educator whose mission is to celebrate the hidden wonders of the natural world through art. Haizlett has been an artist-in-residence at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with the National Audubon Society at Hog Island, and at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. In 2022, she was awarded the Eckelberry Fellowship for distinguished wildlife illustrators. Haizlett has taught nature-focused art workshops in schools, national parks, and REI stores and has also instructed tens of thousands of students through her online courses. The author of Watercolor in Nature and the forthcoming book Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains, she lives on the edge of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia.
Tim Palmer is the award-winning author and photographer of thirty books about forests, rivers, conservation, and the environment, including Trees and Forests of America and America’s Great Forest Trails. He has been involved in conservation since 1970 and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Rivers, the Conservation Achievement Award for Communications from the National Wildlife Federation, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Penn State University. Tim’s book, Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches, won the Ansel Adams Photography Award from the Sierra Club. See www.timpalmer.org for more information.
Nancy Ransom is the lead bird bander for the National Aviary’s study of songbird diversity and habitat in FSF’s forests. Nancy is also a master’s student at Bowling Green State University and plans on studying how birds molt within the forest gaps created by the Foundation. Nancy has been bird banding for seven years and has lived in Ecuador, Costa Rica, the American Samoan Islands, Massachusetts, Colorado, and a few other places in hopes of forwarding her career as an ornithologist. After her recent trip to Peru, the number of birds she has seen in her lifetime is 917 species total around the world. She is very passionate about birds and hopes to have a career as an ornithologist or work for a permanent migration banding station. Being so passionate about birds and wildlife in general, she cares very deeply about preserving and protecting our planet’s wildlife.
We have received your registration to participate in Jim Finley Stewardship Day on August 25 at Caldwell Creek. Thank you!
We will be in touch with more information as the date approaches. We look forward to working alongside you in August!
We have received your registration for the March 17th Vernal Pool Exploration event. Thank you!