This is a field training on Grazing Facilitating Practices: Fence, Heavy Use Area Protection, Trails and Walkways, Stream Crossing, Water Well, Pumping Plant, Livestock Pipeline, Watering Facility, and Livestock Shelter Structure.
New Date: July 28 This is a field training on Grazing Facilitating Practices: Fence, Heavy Use Area Protection, Trails and Walkways, Stream Crossing, Water Well, Pumping Plant, Livestock Pipeline, Watering Facility, and Livestock Shelter Structure.
Participants will learn how to design livestock pipeline and watering systems using the Minnesota NRCS spreadsheet design tool. We'll discuss how to gather the information needed to use the design tool as well as run through examples.
Join us for a hands on, field based training designed to deepen your understanding of native prairie grazing dynamics and plant identification. Participants will visit multiple grazed prairie sites, practicing identification of grasses, forbs, and legumes, and distinguishing grazed from ungrazed stems. Throughout the day, you’ll document plant recovery, observe livestock grazing patterns, and assess soils and grazing distribution.
Josh Tjosaas and Jeremy Daberkow (AgCentric) break down various crop enterprises, input costs, break evens, and the 2026 planning on cost of production.
Restored streams and oxbows provide critical wildlife habitat, increase water storage capacity, and reduce sediment loading in our waterways - benefiting both surrounding lands and downstream water resources. Scott Ralston (USFWS) discusses how these restoration projects are planned and implemented. He outlines the restoration process and explain how these efforts create lasting ecological and water quality benefits.
The Forest Management and Wildlife Habitat Symposium is a two-day, in person event held at the Cloquet Forestry Center that will feature researchers and forest managers sharing science-based management approaches for conserving, enhancing, and sustaining wildlife habitat in Minnesota Forests.
Learning Objectives
Day 1 - Landscape-Level Focus:
This workshop is designed to equip foresters with strategies to communicate silvicultural objectives effectively to loggers and put together sales that are marketable and meet silvicultural objectives. Throughout the day we'll have a mix of indoor and field sessions that come at the timber sale process from multiple different angles.
Learning objectives:
This field day is an in person, field based workshop for natural resource professionals to explore applied forest management strategies that support forest bird conservation within the Chippewa National Forest and surrounding landscapes. The field day will highlight managed sites that employ silvicultural techniques designed to create and maintain spatial complexity and heterogeneity within a range of forest cover types and age classes.
Join UMN extension and forest health experts in Little Falls to learn more about oak wilt on its leading edge in Minnesota. As we work to slow the spread of this fungal disease northward, broad familiarity with its symptoms and potential management strategies is critical. This workshop will cover common symptoms of active oak wilt with hands on demonstrations of current wilt pockets. We will also show effective management methods employed on two private properties in Little Falls and discuss additional viable management strategies.