Industry Education Webinars

Woody Biomass Opportunities in the Upper Midwest - Pellets, Fuels for Schools and Electrical Generation

Spring 2009 Webinar - The Upper Mississippi Valley Section co-hosted a webinar with the Midwest Section on April 16, 2009.

Lean Enterprise Institute

LEI webinars are concise, convenient ways to bring you and your team members practical knowledge from leading lean experts. If you've got about an hour, an LEI webinar will give you real-life insights into solving the technical and human challenges of sustaining a lean transformation.

Forestry Webinar Portal

The Southern Forestry & Natural Resources Webinar Portal is a service of the Southern Regional Extension Forestry Office, North Carolina State University's Extension Forest Resources, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, and other participating land-grant universities in the South. This portal will serve as a launching point for current and archived natural resource webinars. This site will also host information on upcoming webinars and webinars from other organizations that are relevant. Be sure to check out this site for all your webinar needs.

Multiple Wood Using Systems at One Location Webinar

This webinar will focus on Education and Resource Center funded by the USFS Wood describing a project that was and CleanTech Partners to conduct pre-feasibility studies for 15 sites, with wood energy products being the major emphasis. On 13 of the 15 sites, wood pellet plants would be the initial systems installed. As these wood pellet plants become profitable, other systems will be assessed to be implemented as tandem processes. The other two sites assessed are existing sawmills that would have wood pellet production systems added to their existing operations.

Minnesota's Forests: Impacts of changing climate

Eli Sagor - Extension Educator and Assistant Extension Professor - University of Minnesota Extension Service

California's 2009 Formaldehyde Regulations: What does the new CARB Rule Mean for Wood Products Manufacturers?

The Forest Products Society, Upper Mississippi Valley and Midwest Section, sponsored this webinar in December 2008, featuring key information that will help producers and consumers understand and comply with the new California formaldehyde air toxic control measure. This webinar feature a presentation from John Bradfield from the Composite Panel Association, discussing the background and implementation of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) rule for formaldehyde emission from composite wood products used in manufacturing finished wood products. Denise Van Valkenburg of the Masco Retail Cabinet Group presented information focused on how a secondary wood products manufacturer has addressed the CARB rule and strategies for other companies to consider. More information and membership opportunities for the Forest Products Society can be accessed at www.forestprod.org.

North Woods Education Project Series

The Minnesota Wood Campaign / True North Woods® and the Minnesota Wood Education Project, in cooperation with the Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership, have develop a series of pre-recorded Webinars addressing a range of topics of interest to producers of wood and forest products; woodland owners; loggers; consumers; and architects, builders, and others who specify, distribute, or use products that come from the forest. Please click on the pre-recorded Webinar topic that is of interest to you. Turn the volume up on your speakers, and view the Webinar.

FDM and CabinetMaker

FDM and CabinetMaker magazines have compiled a library of Webinars. They are available for viewing at: http://www.cabinetmakeronline.com/Webinars.aspx

Sawdust Opportunities with Dairy Barns

Many wood products producers already have markets for sawdust. Dairy composting barns are an alternative market. If you have dry sawdust, old sawdust piles or green sawdust, researchers at the University of Minnesota will work with you to see if your sawdust will work.

Lean Manufacturing for Sawmills

This webinar, developed by Brian Brashaw at the Natural Resources Research Institute provide information and implementation strategies for using lean manufacturing practices for sawmills.

15th International NDT Symposium on Wood

This Symposium is a forum for those involved in nondestructive testing (NDT) of wood and will bring together NDT users, suppliers, international researchers, government agencies and other groups to share new research, products and technology for using NDT to evaluate standing trees, logs, lumber and wood structures.

Forestland and Climate Change

In the long term climate change models indicate a warmer climate. Some indicate warmer and wetter other dryer. The influence of climate change on forests is likely to initially be from changes in invasive species.

Cheboygan Riverfront Light Station

 

Keweenaw National Historical Park

 

Wapama Historic Schooner

 

Bridge Testing MnDOT St. Louis County