Current Project
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"Seeing the Forest AND the Trees" Productivity Tour
Seeing is believing, and nowhere is this truer than in forest management. Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: How to Make the Most of Minnesota’s Woods, is a series of study tours in the Great Lakes region and Finland and Sweden for policy makers and practitioners to travel together for inspiration and shared learning.
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These tours will exhibit:
- Best practices for increasing productivity through sustainable forest management;
- Policies and procedures that sustain those practices; and
- Forest landowners empowered to participate in best practices.
Productivity Tour Brochure (.pdf)
Participants (.pdf)
Learning Objectives
- Increase the quality and value of forests and the products that come from the land in Minnesota and other Lake States.
- Optimize the balance of forest benefits, including timber, bioenergy and non traditional forest products, ecosystem services and biodiversity, and public access and recreation.
- Develop a shared vision and public policy recommendations for forest management in Minnesota, including increased productivity and environmental and landscape sustainability.
Learning Tracks
- Public Policy: The role of public policy in contributing to Scandinavia’s system.
- Public Engagement: Constructively engaging the public in forestry-related issues.
- Systems Change: Moving knowledge into action through quick deployment of best practices.
- Private Landowners: The role of private landowners in contributing to Scandinavia’s system.
- Environmental Review and Permitting: Scandinavian best practices pertaining to environmental review and permitting.
- Bioenergy/biochemicals: Scandinavian state-of-the-art research and development in bioeconomy applications for forest products.
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