Webinar series: Forestry in Finland and northern US, Economics, forest operations and technology

In each 1-hour session, the speakers from all three locations (Finland, Maine and Michigan) will speak about the topic from their own locality specific perspective. At the end of the session, there is some time for questions and open discussion. The speakers are not only from the universities, but also from other institutes like Finnish Forest Centre, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Maine Forest Products Company and Michigan Department of Natural Resources, to be mentioned.

See full programme of the webinar series here and register each of them separately.

Webinar 3: Economics, forest operations and technology – Thursday 24 March, 9 am - 10 am EDT / 3 pm - 4 pm EET

The third webinar deals with economics, forest operations and technology, including the journey from logging to the value product examples via mechanization and machine operations. The speakers are Kalle Kärhä (University of Eastern Finland), Charlie Becker (Lyme Great Lakes Timberlands) and Dana Doran (Maine Loggers Association).

Speaker biographies

• Kalle Kärhä, Professor of Forest Technology, University of Eastern Finland, https://www.uef.fi/en/unit/school-of-forest-sciences
• Charlie Becker, Chair, Michigan Timber and Forest Products Advisory Council and General Manager, Lyme Great Lakes Timberlands
• Dana Doran, Executive Director, Professional Logging Contractors of Main, https://maineloggers.com/

Here you can find a link to the webinar recording. The recording is available until 11 April 2022.