Please plan to attend “in person” the 2022 Allegheny SAF Winter Training Conference “Young Forests and Young Professionals” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Allegheny SAF. The training will be held February 16-18, 2022, at the Gemmell Center on the campus of Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

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Presentations:

Thursday, February 17, 2021

8:40 AM   Scott Stoleson, USFS – The Kindest Cut: Young Forest as Critical Bird Habitat

9:20 AM    Lisa Williams, PGC – Managing Grouse in the Age of West Nile Virus

10:10 AM   Ben Larson, RGS/AWS – Partnering with Industry to Scale Habitat Restoration

10:50 AM   Eric Zenner, PSU – Young Forests & Young Professionals – Resilience, Adaptation, and the Openness to Change

11:30 AM Jeff Larkin, IUP – The Dynamic Forest Partnership: recovering declining forest wildlife through sustainable forestry applied at ecologically meaningful scales

1:00 PM   Bomboy, K.B., C.I., Bocetti, J.E. Duchamp, M.C. Tyree, D.J. McNeil, and C.J. Fiss, J.L. Larkin., IUP - Breeding habitat selection of Blue-winged Warblers in managed shrublands in southwest Pennsylvania.

1:20 PM    Mathis, C. L., D. J. McNeil Jr., M. R. Lee, C. Grozinger, D. King, C. R. V. Otto, K. R. Urban-Mead, and J. L. Larkin., IUP - Factors Affecting Native Pollinator Diversity and Density in Regenerating Managed Forests in Pennsylvania

1:40 PM  Larkin, JT, M. Akresh, J.L. Larkin, and D.I. King., IUP - Assessing the influence of within-stand and landscape factors on Eastern Whip-poor-will occupancy in managed private land forests enrolled in NRCS conservation programs.

 2:00 PM Pat Brose, USFS - Controlling Sweet Birch in the Post-Harvest Environment: Preliminary Results

Friday, February 18, 2021

9:15 AM  Tom Kase, Kane Hardwood – Planning and Creating Young Forests on a Large Scale: Plan the Work and Work the Plan

10:15 AM Emily Thomas, PSU Dubois – Today’s Young Professionals in Natural Resources