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Lesson 7: Running and Saving the Scenario Time: 1:04

Lesson 8: View and Save Results Time: 2:59

Lesson 9: Create a Custom Crop Management Time: 6:16

Climate change is altering forest ecosystems, with many changes expected by the end of the 21st century. Forests vary widely, and not all forests are equally at risk; vulnerabilities are strongly influenced by regional differences in climate impacts and adaptive capacity. Further, as an increasing amount of scientific information on forest vulnerability to climate change becomes available, natural resource managers are searching for ways to realistically use this information to meet specific management needs, ranging from landscape-level planning and coordination to on-the-ground implementation.

Each year, the Minnesota DNR Forest Health team conducts both aerial assessments and on-the-ground monitoring to assess the health of the state’s forests. Join us for this webinar as MN DNR Forest Health Specialists provide an update on the status and trends in forest health from all corners of the state.

The National Association of Wetland Managers has developed an online training series focused on hydric soils for wetland professionals. This twelve module training series is for wetland field practitioners who need expertise in hydric soils and seek to understand how hydric soils are formed and how to recognize and interpret the information they provide when observed in the field. This can also be used as refresher course for those practitioners who have not had soils training in recent years.

This University of Minnesota website has links to forest pests and disease descriptions, identification and management options.

Join Drs. Miranda Curzon and Marcella Windmuller-Campione as they discuss their work on two Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project sites. The ASCC project represents a collaboration between managers and scientists to establish experimental trials that assess forest ecosystem response to climate adaptation approaches (resistance, resilience, transition, and passive no action). Miranda will introduce a new multi-state ASCC study to be implemented on state-owned lands in the Driftless Area. Next, Marcella will provide two-year results and insights from another ASCC site, a 736-acre urban floodplain forest in St. Paul, MN on the Mississippi River.

This first webinar, presented in 5 segments, in NAWM and NRCS’s jointly developed nine-part wetland training webinar series provides an introduction to wetlands. The webinar introduces the primary components of a wetland, moving on to what makes wetlands distinctive from other types of waters and land. Next, the webinar covers the variability of wetlands across the landscape, including across seasons and time and the benefits of wetlands. The training concludes with a discussion of the history of and changes in agriculture policy in relation to wetland losses and gains. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to describe what a wetland is and be able to explain to others the value of wetlands.

• Part 1.0 – Introduction: Brenda Zollitsch, Policy Analyst, Association of State Wetland Managers  Time: 7:00
• Part 1.1A – Introduction: Jeanne Christie, Executive Director, Association of State Wetland Mangers Time: 28:00
• Part 1.1B – Presenter: Mary Manning, US Forest Service  Time: 29:15
• Part 1.2 – Presenter: Doug Norris, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources  Time: 19:10
• Part 1.3 – Presenter: Karen Fullen, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service  Time: 22:55

A recording of a virtual windbreak short course for Nebraska:

• Part 1: Bruce Wight: Wind Protection Needs Past and Present
• Part 2: Richard Straight: Windbreak Design or How do Windbreaks Work?
• Part 3: Richard Straight: Windbreak Purposes
• Part 4: Lord Ameyaw: International Agroforestry/Windbreaks

A recording of a virtual windbreak short course for Nebraska:

• Part 1: Ritch Nelson: Using the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide for Windbreak Conservation Planning Criteria
• Part 2: Pam Bergstrom: Web Soil Survey, Site Preparation
• Part 3: Galen Wittrock: Windbreak Design
• Part 4: Craig Stange: Windbreak Field Observation/ Discussion

This is a powerpoint presentation developed with the Wetland Science Institute, containing 65 slides covering the general concepts used for identifying hydric soils in the field.