Workshop completed, Forest Tales to continue...

As a quick update, The Forest Trails & Forest Tales Workshop at the Cloquet Forestry Center was a success with compelling presenters, a beautiful forest setting, complex and provocative topics, and engaged participants from many backgrounds. A short recounting of the workshop will be posted at the Institute on the Environment Blog "Eye on Earth." But the themes that came out of the conversations at the workshop will continue to be explored and documented at this website and also included in the fall exhibition for Conversation-E at the Institute on the Environment and in the project display at Cloquet Forestry Center.

Weekend Workshop Registration Opened up for No Cost

We are pleased to announce that the $250 registration fee for the full weekend workshop of Forest Trails & Forest Tales: Exploring Place, Story and Climate Change at the Cloquet Forestry Center is now opened up for no cost except your food and lodging. To register for the workshop, notify Jonee at kulma002@umn.edu of which meals you would like to reserve for payment when you arrive. And arrange for lodging rental with Stephanie Oberg at oberg086@umn.edu
 

Preview: Forest Trails & Forest Tails Presenters/Performers List - Now Available

We are pleased to present a preview of the speakers and performers for the Forest Trails & Forest Tales Workshop/Course and Free Public Event. More details, with links, and bios to come.

Presenters include the Team Leaders:

• Peter Reich, Department of Forest Resources, Regents Professor Distinguished McKnight University Professor, F.B. Hubachek, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, Resident Fellow, Institute on the Environment
• Rebecca A. Montgomery, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources
• Roslye Ultan, Liberal Studies Senior Faculty, Independent Curator, Board member, Minnesota Association of Environmental Education, Director and Co-Founder of GATE
• Jonee Kulman Brigham, Research Coordinator Center for Sustainable Building Research, MS-Sustainable Design Faculty, College of Design, Associate Fellow, Institute on the Environment, Co-Founder of GATE

 And Members of the Advisory Group

• Beth Mercer-Taylor, Sustainability Education Coordinator
• Emily Peters, Research Associate, Institute on the Environment
• Daniel Philippon, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota, past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
• Carrie Pike, Interim Director of Operations, Cloquet Forestry Center, Research Fellow MN Tree Improvement Cooperative
• Dawn Newman, Regional Director, Extension, U of MN Extension Regional Center, Cloquet, MN
• Kristen Poppleton, Director of Education, Will Steger Foundation

 And Special Guests from the broader University and Community

• Jeff Savage, Artist and Director of the Fond du Lac Cultural Center and Museum
• David Feinberg, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Minnesota
• Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
• Tanya Gravening, Artist
• Others being confirmed.