2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference
and
IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
Have you had a chance to check out the conference program? With the addition of the IUFRO Conference on Forests for People, there are over 150 speakers presenting 120 topics in 55 sessions. The planning team has put together five fascinating field educational sessions. And there are seven preconference tours and training, including Leave No Trace training, SCORP University and a trip to Mackinac Island. Wow!
Traverse City is one of America’s outdoor recreation wonderlands. It’s a small town with all the amenities and culture of a larger city. Bon Appetit has listed it as one of America’s Top Five Foodie towns. There are nine microbreweries in Traverse City and 35 wineries in the region. You don’t want to miss this conference!
I thought I would share some of the more enticing conference programs in this email. If you want more detail, download the full program. <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/Conference/2013_conference_program_0…>
SCORP University – Pre-conference Training
Training session and discussion for State SCORP planners and others interested about statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation planning, the Land and Water Conservation Fund planning requirement to participate in the federal LWCF state financial assistance/grant program.
Field Educational Sessions
TART Trail Bicycle System
The Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation (TART) Trails is offering a session on regional trail development designed to explore how public-private partnerships can be developed to help initiate, maintain and expand non-motorized infrastructure designed to meet the economic, recreation, transportation, health and social needs of the community. Participants will learn about how unique partnerships have leveraged money and manpower to develop and maintain over 60 miles of trail in the region. The session will feature a leisurely 15-mile bicycle ride on the trails through Traverse City and stop at locations along the way.
Old Mission Peninsula - A national coordinated land use success story!
The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy will be hosting a trip focusing on the multiple benefits (social, economic, cultural etc.) of a coordinated land use protection strategy on the beautiful Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse Bay. This tour will showcase the on the local, regional and indeed national impacts of this effort and touch on areas of the township dedicated to fruit production, environmental protection, passive and active recreation, and the growth of the wine industry and associated tourism.
A River Reborn: Building a Prosperous Community through Dam Removal and Ecological Restoration
Join the Grand Traverse Conservation District for an exploration of the Boardman River Dam Removal Process. Participants will board a bus at the Park Place Hotel to travel to the Boardman River Nature Center where they will receive a multi-media presentation on the largest dam removal project in Michigan History. The session will include an examination of the unique, multi-sector collaborative process that was used to build community investment, raise over $4.5 million and manage the first of three dam removal projects to successful completion—on time, and on budget. The session will conclude with a ~3 mile flat-water paddle from the Nature Center to Traverse City proper, within a short walk of the Park Place hotel. Canoes, paddles and life preservers will be provided
Michigan Partnerships Gone Wild
Program demonstrations of DNR’s Recreation 101: Great Lakes Fishing in the West Grand Traverse Bay paired with “Catch & Cook” and “Gourmet Gone Wild” sessions including a chef-prepared meal, and finishing with DNR partnerships with the Michigan Grape and Wine Council and Michigan Culinary Alliance.
Pathways to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore & the new Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail
Superintendent Dusty Shultz and Deputy Tom Ulrich will provide a behind the scenes orientation to the park. We will go into the park to experience the spectacular scenery and learn about the globally significant perched dune landscape, past and present recreational uses, and efforts to balance public access with protecting natural and cultural resources. Participants will have an option to bike the new Heritage Trail with NPS planner Barbara Jameson. We will learn about the history behind the Crystal River acquisition and working with local and national land trust to protect its ecologically important natural lands and resources.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
<mailto:Brenda@RecPro.org> Brenda(a)RecPro.org
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From: PAT LAYTON < <mailto:PLAYTON@clemson.edu> PLAYTON(a)clemson.edu>
Date: 2013/4/1
Subject: 32nd SFTIC meeting - Invitation to Attend and Participate.
Invitation to Attend and Participate
We cordially invite your attendance and
participation in the 32nd SFTIC meeting on
the shores of Lake Hartwell in Clemson, SC.
The meeting will take place June 10‐13, 2013.
http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/sftic/
Dr. Patricia A. Layton
Professor and Director
School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
132 Lehotsky Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-0310
playton(a)clemson.edu
Phone 864-656-3303
Fax 864-656-3304
Cell 864-505-5904
Dear Climate-L readers,
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From: Steven Anderson <steven.anderson(a)duke.edu>
To: Daniela Kleinschmit <daniela.kleinschmit(a)slu.se>, "mauro.agnoletti(a)unifi.it" <mauro.agnoletti(a)unifi.it>, "elis.johann(a)utanet.at" <elis.johann(a)utanet.at>, "Parrotta, John -FS" <jparrotta(a)fs.fed.us>
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:38:37 +0000
Subject: Travel Award to the SAF National Convention
Daniela and all,
Please find attached an announcement for the Gregory Award that will provide $1,800 support to a student or professional outside of the U.S. and Canada to attend the national convention of the Society of American Foresters. The SAF National Convention is scheduled for October 22 -27, 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina. http://www.xcdsystem.com/saf/site13/
Can you please forward this on to Division 9 and have it posted wherever appropriate?
Thanks,
Steve
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Steven Anderson, President
Forest History Society (CFC #10138)
701 Wm. Vickers Ave.
Durham, NC 27701
Phone: 919-682-9319
FAX: 919-682-2349
stevena(a)duke.edu
www.foresthistory.org
Dear colleagues, scientists, experts and interested listeners,
Please remember our upcoming conference on Community Forestry:
New Challenges for Community Forestry:
Sharing Scientific Knowledge in a South – North Perspective
Remscheid, GERMANY, 23. – 25. September 2013
You can still submit your abstract until the end of this month. Please find all necessary information on the attached conference call:
Selected papers and posters are invited to contribute to the special issue of: New Challenges for Community Forestry: Sharing Scientific Knowledge in a South – North Perspective, Forest Policy and Economics 2014
For registrations or any other inquiry, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Carsten Schusser
__________________________________________
Dr. Carsten Schusser
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Professur für Forst- und Naturschutzpolitik
(Chair of Forest- and Nature Conservation Policy)
Büsgenweg 3 (Office: 218)
37077 Göttingen
GERMANY
Tel. +49 (0)551-39 33410 <tel:%2B49%20%280%29551-39%2033410>
Fax.+49 (0)551-39 33410 <tel:%2B49%20%280%29551-39%2033410>
Cell:+49 (0)170 6876123 <tel:%2B49%20%280%29170%206876123>
Email: <mailto:cschuss@gwdg.de> cschuss(a)gwdg.de
<http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/410377.html> http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/410377.html
Conference announcement and call for papers:
Forest sector modelling
- new approaches and findings for improved resource decisions in a globalized world
In Lillehammer, Norway, October 15-18, 2013 IUFRO Division 9.07.00 Forest sector analysis
and the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management at the Norwegian
University of Life Sciences (UMB) invite researchers and others interested in Forest
Sector Modeling (FSM) to a conference devoted to explore methodological issues and research questions of high current interest at the national, regional and global scale.
Keynote presentations, plenary and concurrent sessions are expected to be filled by developers and users of FSM with emphasis on forestry, forest industry, trade and policy.
Call for papers:
The committee seeks papers on recent methodological developments and applications in
the field. We are particularly interested in analyses addressing:
* Coupling or linking of partial equilibrium FSM with other models (energy, climate, land use
and general equilibrium models)
* Short-term vs. long-term modeling issues
* Impacts of agent behaviour assumptions
* Climate change mitigation
* Impacts of and adaptation to climate change
* Bioenergy
* International trade of wood fibre
* Competition for wood fibre between traditional and new uses
* Risk and uncertainty
* Technological change
* FSM in future foresight studies
* New econometric results as important input in forest sector modelling
Because of space limitations, priority is given for model analyses which include both forestry and wood-using sectors.
Abstracts not exeeding 200 words should be submitted to fsm2013(a)umb.no by
April 8, 2013.
Depending on the number of contributions, a special issue or a book is planned in collaboration with one or two international refereed journals.
The committee welcomes in particular young researchers in the field and they are especially
encouraged to submit abstracts.
Venue:
The conference will be held in the town of Lillehammerin Norway, situated approximately 150
km north of Oslo Airport. The hotel can be easily reached by train and bus from the airport. Lillehammer hosted the Olympic winter games in 1994 and offers good opportunities for outdoor activities and picturesque surroundings (with wooden buildings from A.D. 1150 onwards). Information regarding hotel bookings and registration will be provided later.
Program outline:
October 15 (evening): Reception
October 16-17: Scientific program
October 18: Excursion
Information:
Conference fee: 150 Euro
For more information, please contact:
* Chair of Organizing Committee, Professor Birger Solberg, birger.solberg(a)umb.no
* Researcher Hanne K. Sjølie, hanne.sjolie(a)umb.no
* or send e-mail to fsm2013(a)umb.no
Scientific committee:
* Birger Solberg (chair), Norwegian University of Life Sciences
* Maarit Kallio, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland
* John Perez-Garcia, University of Washington, USA
* Satoshi Tachibana, University of Tsukuba, Japan
* James Turner, AgResearch, Ruakura Research Centre, New Zealand
* Hanne K. Sjølie, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Daniela Kleinschmit
Assoc. Professor
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Unit of Forest Policy
PO Box 7008, SE-75007 Uppsala
Visiting address: Vallvägen 9C
Phone: +46 18 672493
Mobile: +46 72 5867588
daniela.kleinschmit(a)slu.se, www.slu.se<http://www.slu.se/>
Dear Colleagues,
this is a reminder regarding your possible participation at the
15th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European Forest
Sustainable Development,
which will take place in
Tirana/Albania from 14 - 17 May 2013.
First of all, I want to apologize for re-sending the attached form to
all these colleagues who have sent their pre-registration forms in
time; thank you very much for easing our job, you will receive
confirmation notifications very soon now!
There are, however, quite some colleagues who have announced their
wish to participate but yet not sent their registrations: All these,
please do so as soon as possible (cf. attached form) - please note
that we will not be able to accept any pre-registrations after 18
February 2013!!
Some colleagues also seem to have not received our previous messages
- in that case, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Looking forward to hear from you,
with best regards
Peter Herbst
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Dear colleagues,
Research groups of Wageningen University (NL), Stirling University (UK), the Austrian University of Life Sciences (Boku Vienna), Technical Universities of Dresden and Munich, Germany, AgroParisTech-ENGREF (France), and the University of Freiburg will jointly conduct a workshop
"Perspectives on Forest Conservation – tackling the frontier between policy and conservation science"
to be held in Freiburg, Germany, 19 - 21 June 2013.
DEADLINE for abstract submission: FEBRUARY, 10th, 2013.
For further specifications please refer to the Call for Papers:
http://www.ifp.uni-freiburg.de/call-for-papers-perspectives-on-forest-conse…
We hope that you will find this interesting and are looking forward to welcoming you to Freiburg!
Best regards
Georg Winkel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit
SLU
Unit of Forest Policy
P.O. Box 7008
SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 672493
daniela.kleinschmit(a)sprod.slu.se
This email concerns the Nordic – Baltic countries
Dear colleagues
The Nordic Network on Forest Policy Sciences is organizing sessions at the NESS conference in Copenhagen 11-13 June 2013 and call for papers and application for stipends (please find details below).
The NESS conference ( Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference 2013 “Welcome to the Anthropocene”) is held every two years and brings together researchers in the social sciences and humanities. As part of the NESS conference with a specific focus on forest policy – Working Group 8 – Forest policy in transition.
The socio-political demands for forests to provide benefits to society are ever-changing, at an ever- increasing speed. The increasing demand for wood supply for material and bioenergy use, the conservation of forests to foster biodiversity and the carbon sequestration function of forest for climate change mitigation are only a few of these partly conflicting demands. On top of this many of the forest areas in Scandinavia are predominantly privately owned. This creates a need for innovative modes of governance that on the one hand support forestry as units of production and income generation for private owners and, on the other hand, motivate these same owners to provide the other material and immaterial services demanded by society.
With this working group, we welcome papers focusing on the changing role of forests in society, the ever-changing patterns of governance aimed to enhance the provisions of services from forests to society, the perceptions and sense-making of forest owners, and the interaction among different stakeholders in the co-production of modern forestry.
Based on these sessions, selected papers will be published in a special issue on forest policy in an international peer-reviewed journal.
The organizing committee of these sessions - Working Group 8 – Forest policy in transition are pleased to announce 10 stipends of € 1 100 each towards travel, accommodation and conference fees at the 2013 NESS conference.
· 5 stipends are available to PhD students; and
· 5 stipends are available to researchers from the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia)
These stipends have been made possible through a grant from the Nordic Forest Research Cooperation Committee (SNS).
In order to submit your abstract (and apply for a stipend), please:
1. Abstracts must conform to the theme of Working Group 8 (see above).
2. Submit an abstract for consideration to Working Group 8 – Forest policy in transition not later than March 15 at the NESS hompage
(https://conventionbureauet.wufoo.com/forms/ness-2013-upload-of-abstracts/)
Mark “Forest policy in transition” in the online application system.
3. If applying for a stipend, email a copy to nornetfopo2013(a)slu.se indicating whether you are a PhD student or a researcher from a Baltic State in both submissions.
4. Abstracts will be reviewed and ranked by the organizing committee against set criteria.
5. Notification of stipend award will take place before the early registration deadline of 2013/04/15.
With best regards
On behalf of the organizers,
Daniela Kleinschmit
P.S: Please spread this news to those who might be interested
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Daniela Kleinschmit
Assoc. Professor
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Unit of Forest Policy
PO Box 7008, SE-75007 Uppsala
Visiting address: Vallvägen 9C
Phone: +46 18 672493
Mobile: +46 72 5867588
daniela.kleinschmit(a)slu.se, www.slu.se<http://www.slu.se/>
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