Biomass Harvesting:  Enhancing or Depleting our Forest Resource?

AGENDA

8:00      Registration:  University of Maine, Orono--Steam Plant parking lot

8:20      Bus departs for University Forest

8:40      University Forest: Pre-merchantable Biomass thinning;    Alternative technologies for pre-merchantable thinnings.
             TBA.              

9:40      Bus departs for Penobscot

11:00    Penobscot, Maine; cut-to-length and feller-buncher harvesting operation; integrating biomass into conventional harvests.
              Tom  Nelson, Vice President, Woodlot  Services Division, Prentiss &  Carlisle.

12:00    Bus departs

12:30    Lunch stop. Real Estate Development cuts (location TBA); How much is enough? Proposed Biomass Harvesting  
              Guidelines.  Jeff Benjamin, Assistant Professor--Forest Operations Science, UMaine.

2:00        Bucksport, Maine. Verso Biomass Plant tours / Biomass harvesting     standards group discussions. Jim Contino,
               Fiber Supply Manager, Verso Paper.

4:00      Return to Steam plant.

Attendees should read the December 2007 Journal of Forestry article by Munsell and Germain, 'Woody Biomass Energy:  An Opportunity for Silviculture on Nonindustrial Private Forestlands in New York.'  The article can also be downloaded from the national SAF web site: safnet.org

                                    Registration Limit:  36
                                    Paid registrations as of May 21:  36

Registration is closed.  If your check is in the mail, it will be returned to you promptly.