Cloquet Forestry Center
This workshop covers relationships between soils, landforms, and plant community development as well as goes over some common tools and sources of information. Includes classroom presentations and hands-on activities in the lab.
Over the course of the day, registrants will
- Understand the basic relationships between glacial history, landforms, soils, and native plant communities (to the extent we can!)
- Understand soil characteristics and how forest operations can impact them, changing future system development trajectory
- Be able to access and interpret (understand limitations of) major sources of soil and landform data, such as Web Soil Survey, shaded relief maps, etc.
- Review the latest climate change guidance on forest operations.
Cost: This event is open to all interested learners. $75 for members, $140 for non members, $40 for students. Current Ecosilv enrollees who purchased the whole block can use their discount code.
Accessibility: We will be indoors for the duration of this workshop. A nursing mother room is available; for this and other accommodations reach out to Lane Moser at [email protected].
CEs: This event is rated for 4.5 MN FSP CEs and 4.5 SAF CFEs.
Agenda
9:00am: Welcome and overview of the day. Brief introductions and go over the course project and other cohort updates. – Lane Moser and Eli Sagor, SFEC
9:15am: Soil formation and properties – Alan Toczydlowski, UMN-FR
10:15am: Break
10:30am: Forest soil management – Lane Moser, SFEC
12:00pm: Lunch
12:45pm: Hands-on soils portion. Show-and-tell with soil cores, field texture with soil samples from different horizons. Small group work with hillshade map interpretation.
2:00pm: How soil maps were made; Geomorphology / glacial geology / landforms in Northern Minnesota; Web Soil Survey (how to obtain Soils data) – Mike Rokus, NRCS
2:55pm: Closing thoughts and break for the day for non-ecosilv attendees
3:00pm: Ecosilv Capstone Project discussion (Ecosystem Silviculture course participants only)