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Yukon River Virtual Chapter Meeting - Forest Management in Southeast US on Military Installations

Bob Larimore will give a presentation on changes to forest management in the southeast United States on military installations over the past 50 years. From the military hiring its first professional forester to the change in wildland fire management to how forest products were and are now managed all in the best interest of supporting the military mission and protecting the publics natural resources.

Date: February 23, 2021

Time: 12:00 p.m. (AST)

Yukon River Chapter Virtual Meeting - Update on Interior Alaska's Forest Inventory and Analysis program

The Yukon River Chapter is hosting a virtual technical presentation, "Update on Interior Alaska's Forest Inventory and Analysis program." Miho Welton, FIA Coordinator, manages the interior Alaska FIA program and will provide an update to the status of FIA efforts over the past 5 years. Alaska DNR has partnered up with the USFS on establishing the interior Alaska forest inventory program now in its 6th year.

Juneau Chapter Virtual Meeting - Barnacle: Coast to Kitchen

Juneau Chapter Meeting Barnacle: Coast to Kitchen

January 21, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. (AST)

Lia Heifetz, a local kelp farmer and cofounder of Barnacle Foods, will discuss the science of kelp farming. Kelp farming is a low input, sustainable, natural form of aquaculture with a huge range of existing and potential products. It is an emerging and growing industry in the coastal Pacific Northwest and has many parallels with forestry from a natural resource management standpoint.

This meeting has been approved for 0.50 credits.

2020 Alaska SAF Annual Meeting

Alaska Society of American Foresters 2020 Annual Meeting -- Cancelled

Due to the national health emergency caused by the COVID-19 virus, the 2020 AK SAF meeting has been canceled. 

Thank you to everyone who registered, your registration fees will be refunded in full. We will be in touch with you directly to work out the refund if you have registered and paid already.