Pre-Conference — Wednesday Workshops
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- Tree Measuring with Bob Leverett
- Mysterious Species: Looking for the Little Things with Shelby Perry
- Ash Pounding with Kerry and Aaron Wood
Keynote Speakers
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- Steve Blackmer: Invocation
- Jerry Franklin
- Bob Leverett
- Lynda Mapes
- Tom Spies
Keynote speakers will open and close the conference on Thursday and Friday. Get to know this year’s keynote speakers.
Plenary Speakers
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- Tom Butler: Rewilding and Old Growth Forests
- John Elder: The Literature, Poetics, and Music of Old Growth
- David Foster and Jon Leibowitz: A Wildlands Vision & Progress
- Leslie Jonas: An Indigenous Perspective on Old Growth
- David Orwig: New Insights on Forest Dynamics from a Network of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
- Marianne Patinelli-Dubay: Human Relationships with Old Growth
Sessions
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We have over 20 sessions planned. Here’s just a small sampling:
- Tree Height And Age Relationships In Northeastern Old-Growth Forests with Erik Danielson
- Wilderness and Indigenous Land Zones with Ed Faison and Nohham Cachat-Schilling
- Beyond the Illusion of Preservation: An integrated approach to Forest Conservation with Caitlin Littlefield, David McMath, Jared Nunnery, Keith Thompson
- Plant-Human Quarterly: Poems for the Wild with Neil Shepard
- Policy for Old Growth Forests: Vermont and the Northeast with Amy Sheldon
View the Complete Conference Schedule
Below is the complete list of session leaders. Stay tuned for more session details.
- Ralph S. Baker
- John Bates
- Steve Blackmer
- Tom Butler
- Nohham Cachat-Schilling
- Erik Danielson
- John Davis
- Kristin DeBoer
- Tim Duclos
- John Elder
- Ed Faison
- Jamey Fidel
- David Foster
- Jerry Franklin
- Mary Ann Furedi
- Brian Hall
- Sara Hart
- Abigail Higgins
- Tim Howard
- Shayne Jaquith
- Leslie Jonas
- Bill Keeton
- Christopher Klyza
- Jud Kratzer
- Jon Leibowitz
- Bob Leverett
- Caitlin Littlefield
- John Magee
- Joan Maloof
- Linda Mapes
- Jason Mazurowski
- David McMath
- Brian Milakovsky
- William Moomaw
- Jared Nunery
- David Orwig
- Marianne Patinelli-Dubay
- Neil Pederson
- Shelby Perry
- Zack Porter
- Sean Prentiss
- Amy Sheldon
- Neil Shepard
- Tom Spies
- Nadia Steinzor
- Jonathan Thompson
- Keith Thompson
- Liz Thompson
- Aaron Wood
- Kerry Wood
- David Yeany II
- Bob Zaino
Other Exciting Conference Experiences
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- Field trips on Wednesday and Saturday (more details coming soon)
- Bonfires Thursday and Friday evenings
- Guided Forest Walks
- Poster Session
- Art Show
- Pop-up Bookstore
- …and other surprises!