Partnership Initiatives: FALL 2010 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Thursday-Saturday, October 21-23, 2010

Do you own or care about woodlands in Kennebec County?

Topics explored in our three-day Fall 2010 conference include:

• An overview of the landscape history and economic backdrop of Kennebec County’s forest resources.
• A variety of approaches to woodland stewardship and highlight
• Case studies of local successes
• Key resources for landowners
• Small woodlot management strategies
• Working forest conservation easements
• Estate planning and current use taxation
• Working with licensed foresters and professional timber harvesters
• Field trips to local working woodlots, forest preserves, and businesses built on Kennebec County’s rich working woodlands
• A talk and woods walk led by noted landscape historian Tom Wessels, author of Reading the Forested Landscape.

You may access presentations, maps, photos, and other conference materials by following the links in the program below.

Fall River painting by Lois Strickland

• Welcome - Morten Moesswilde, Maine Forest Service
• Keynote Address - Laurie Lachance, Maine Development Foundation
• Stewardship Storyline - Andy Shultz, Maine Forest Service
  • Continuum of tools & strategies available to woodland owners
• Kennebec County Forest Resource Overview
  • Theresa Kerchner, Kennebec Land Trust - Landscape history of Kennebec County
  • Andy Cutko, Maine Natural Areas Program - Forest resource overview, natural communities (pdf | 1.1 MB)
  • Chip Bessey, E.D. Bessey & Son - Pressures of owning forestland
  • Jerry Bley, Creative Conservation - Questions for panel, discussion
• Tools & Strategies for Forest Landowners
  • Tom Doak, Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine
  • Amanda Burton, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
  • Beth Olliver, Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands
  • Jake Metzler, Forest Society of Maine
  • Howard Lake, Kennebec Land Trust
• Case studies 1
  1. Seedling to Stump The Seedling to Stump session
     • Andy Fisk, Kennebec Land Trust
     • Mike Dann, SWOAM
     • Ethel Wilkerson, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
     • Dan Wells, Winthrop Utilities District
  2. Working Forests & Conservation Easements
     • Howard Lake, Kennebec Land Trust
     • Theresa Kerchner, Kennebec Land Trust
     • Harold Burnett, Two Trees Forestry
     • Will Cole, Trees Ltd.
     • Arn & Leda Sturtevant, forestland owners
• Lunchtime conversation with Lloyd Irland Fifty Years of Maine Stumpage Prices: Presentation (pdf | 555KB) Supplementary Handout (pdf | 1.2MB)
• Case Studies 2
  1. Stump to Shelf
  • Andy Shultz, Maine Forest Service
  • Mike Watts, Verso Paper Co.
  • Don Cole, Trees Ltd.
  • Ken Laustsen, Maine Forest Service (pdf | 277KB)
1. City Greenspaces
   • Jan Ames Santerre, Maine Forest Service
   • Nancy Smith, GrowSmart Maine
   • Mike Duguay, City of Augusta
   • Will Cole, Trees Ltd.
• Key Principles - Signing by Kennebec Woodland Partners
• Closing - Andy Fisk, Kennebec Land Trust

Signing of KWP Key Principles by Kennebec Woodland Partners: Beth Ollivier, TCNEF; Dale Finseth, KCSWCD;
Pat Strauch, MFPC; Theresa Kerchner, KLT, Jake Metzler, FSM, Don Mansius, MFS,
Tom Doak, SWOAM. Photo credit: Andy Shultz.

Friday, October 22, 2010

• (Group A)
  
  

  Field trip participants tour the Lawrence Family Tree Farm, Albion.
  Photo credit: Amanda Mahaffey
  • Curtis Homestead Demonstration Forest (Leeds)
  • Winthrop Utilities District – Managing Forests for Water Quality (Winthrop)
• (Group B)
  • Sebasticook Region Land Trust – Farm and Forest Lands & Albion Bread Company (Albion/Benton)
• Brown Woodlot – Forest Management for Multiple Values (Vassalboro)

• Lunchtime conversation with Lloyd Irland (Belgrade)
• Hammond Lumber Mill tour (Belgrade)
• Facilitated wrap-up

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Tom Wessels interprets the forested landscape, Readfield.
Photo credit: Jym St. Pierre
• Tom Wessels Lecture (open participation), author of Reading the Forested Landscape
• (Concurrent sessions)
  • Woods walk with Tom Wessels, author and landscape historian (Macdonald Conservation Area and Readfield Town Forest)

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  • Painting the Forested Landscape with Penny Markley, Maine artist (Gannett Woods including scenic Shed Pond, adjacent to Allen Whitney Memorial Forest, Manchester)