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Join Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources silviculturists Greg Edge and Brad Hutnik as they explore topics related to silviculture in the Great Lakes. Each month they interview experts from across the U.S. and Canada on a variety of topics including forest regeneration, deer browse, and prescribed fire. Visit the podcast website at https://www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/WFC/Pages/Research-Development/SilviCast.aspx
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S.4 Ep.11: The Art of Silviculture from 2023-12-12T08:00
The official Society of American Foresters' definition of silviculture describes it as both an art and science. Are foresters both artists and scientists? What role does creativity play whe...
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S.4 Ep.10: White Oak, Whiskey, and Wildlife from 2023-12-06T10:00
If you're a whiskey enthusiast, you are probably aware of a lesser-known federal law that requires all bourbon (an American whiskey) to be aged in a “charred new oak container." And th...
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S.4 Ep.9: Vision of Chief Oshkosh from 2023-10-01T18:00
Good silviculture is about using the best available science, along with the experience and local knowledge we accumulate in the field. What if we practiced forestry in an area for not only one l...
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S.4 Ep.8: ICO ICO a Nae from 2023-09-01T05:00
They say if you want forest heterogeneity, just get a larger group of foresters to mark the stand. While it is true that not every forester marks the same, it is often challenging if we want to ...
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S.4 Ep.7: The Cedar Club from 2023-08-01T05:00
Foresters love a challenge! And one such challenge in eastern Northern America has always been northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis). A both ecologically and commercially valuable t...
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S.4 Ep.6: Green Side Up from 2023-07-01T01:00
It seems that every young forester may have heard the old adage “green side up" tossed at us half-jokingly while learning to plant our first tree seedlings, almost as if to say "don&ap...
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S.4 Ep.5: The Seedling and the Flame from 2023-06-01T00:00
We all know that oak and fire go together like peanut butter and jelly. What we have been missing is the practical knowledge of where, when, and how to apply fire in oak ecosystems. There are fe...
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S.4 Ep.4: How Now Brown Cow? from 2023-05-01T08:00
Foresters have been warning landowners for years about the potentially damaging impacts of cows in their woods. So it is not surprising that we raise an eyebrow when conversations start about in...
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S.4 Ep.3: Syrup with Saps from 2023-03-29T10:00
Business is booming if you own a commercial sugar bush! As forest managers, this means more and more of us are hearing from landowners interested in starting or maintaining a sugar bush. Unfortu...
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S.4 Ep.2: Climate Castaways from 2023-03-02T09:00
Trees have had to migrate for millennia due to changes in climate. However, the pace of climate change today is far greater than historical tree migration rates, and land use changes have create...
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S.4 Ep.1: The King's Pine from 2023-02-06T11:00
Eastern white pine is an iconic tree of cultural and historical importance to eastern North America. The “great pineries” in this corner of the world were heavily exploited during the 19th centu...
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S.3 Ep.10: Ecological Silviculture - A Natural Model from 2023-01-04T12:00
One of the most interesting aspects of silviculture is that our understanding keeps growing. We look to old approaches, new research, and field practice to better manage our forests for a host o...
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S.3 Ep.9: Woodlot Assassins from 2022-12-13T19:00
Interfering vegetation, be it native or invasive, is a real headache for foresters. Sometimes we wind up wishing for one more tool in the toolkit when none of the current ones seem to fit. Luck...
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S.3 Ep.7: The Chess Match from 2022-09-02T10:00
Wildlife habitat is the primary goal for many forest landowners, and in particular forest bird habitat. Silviculture treatments have great potential to provide quality habitat for birds if we k...
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S.3 Ep.6: The Carbon Cycle Won't Leave Me Alone from 2022-07-29T15:00
In this second episode of our two-part series on forest carbon, we explore ways to enhance carbon storage and sequestration through silviculture. Whether it is through our choice of silvicultur...
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S.3 Ep.5: Carbon, WHAT?!! from 2022-06-24T17:00
In forestry school we learned about photosynthesis; the process by which trees use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to form sugars and oxygen. But most of us did not learn much about how to ...
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S.3 Ep.4: Fly on the Slash Wall from 2022-05-26T08:00
Necessity is the mother of invention, even in silviculture. Foresters in the eastern US often struggle with regenerating trees due to severe deer browse. Yet mitigating solutions, like fencing...
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S.3 Ep.3: Reading the Bark from 2022-04-11T12:00
Fine hardwood veneer logs represent the pinnacle of log quality and timber value, with prices up to 10 times the price of grade 1 sawlogs. However, trees of this quality can be rare as hens&apo...
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S.3 Ep.2: Forests in Motion: Woodland and Savanna Silviculture from 2022-03-02T16:00
Savannas, woodlands, and other open forest systems once occupied vast areas of North America where fire disturbance, at least in part, shaped their structure and composition. Many of those acres...
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S.3 Ep.1: Stocking Charts on Napkins from 2022-01-28T14:00
A conversation with Dr. Susan Stout, Emeritus Research Forester and Project Leader at the USFS Northern Research Station, who has conducted applied silvicultural research in forests of the easte...
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S.2 Ep.11: What's on your Mind? from 2022-01-03T15:00
Silviculture is important work! Nobody has all the answers. So that is why each month on SilviCast we try to bring you a diverse set of guests, from the perspective of researchers and field fo...
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S.2 Ep.10: Climate Change Help Desk from 2021-11-15T11:00
When it comes to climate change, we all have questions. As foresters some of our most fundamental climate change questions deal with how trees will respond. What species are projected to do we...
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S.2 Ep.9: Above the B-line from 2021-10-15T11:00
For many of us, one of our first experiences handling a paint gun is while learning to tend a pine plantation. It all seems very straight forward… thin from below, a little thin from above, hit...
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S.2 Ep.8: Sugar Sand from 2021-08-25T10:00
What is a forester to do when your soils are almost always dry and sandy and low in nutrients? Skip the black walnut for sure and embrace the sand… or perhaps the pine barrens! Pine barrens we...
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S.2 Ep.7: NHC 2021 Special from 2021-07-15T15:00
Forest practitioners and researchers recently “gathered” virtually for the Northern Hardwood Conference 2021 (NHC 2021), the first range-wide conference dedicated to northern hardwood for...
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S.2 Ep.6: Silviculture's Secret Sauce from 2021-06-15T10:00
Lowland forests have always been a bit of a mystery to us foresters and silviculturists, at least here in the Lake States. Disturbance regimes are not well understood, and effective silvicultur...
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S.2 Ep.5: Where Have All the Seedlings Gone? from 2021-05-24T09:00
What happened to the days when regenerating sugar maple was easy as falling off a log? Unfortunately, foresters from across the range of northern hardwoods are frequently experiencing a dearth ...
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S.2 Ep.4: Right Tree, Right Place, Right Time from 2021-04-15T13:00
There may be nothing more satisfying than planting a tree. Artificial regeneration of hardwoods in particular however can be a challenge. Trees are lost due to everything from improper plantin...
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S.2 Ep.3: The Green Wall from 2021-03-15T09:00
A conversation with Ralph Nyland, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, who has conducted extensive applied research into even and uneve...
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S.2 Ep.2: Weed Wizards: Demystifying Forestry Herbicides from 2021-02-15T12:00
Silviculture is all about managing forest vegetation, but sometimes that vegetation does not want to be managed! Whether that is controlling invasive shrubs like buckthorn, releasing seedlings ...
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S.2 Ep.1: Betu-love it! from 2021-01-15T17:00
Let's talk paper birch! There are few tree species that have such a rich and diverse relationship with the inhabitants of North America, being prized for food, medicine, transportation, fu...
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S.1 Ep.6: It's OK to be Irregular from 2020-11-16T10:00
Foresters love terminology. In fact, foresters have a long history coining detailed words to describe their forest management, dating back to Germany where many terms were developed to describe...
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S.1 Ep.5: The Kitchen Sink from 2020-10-15T09:00
Foresters often encounter stand trees that have been “degraded” by past land use practices, whether that is destructive cutting, over-grazing, invasive species, insects and disease, or other imp...
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S.1 Ep.4: Oak, Cheeseheads, and the Dirt Forester's Toolkit from 2020-09-15T16:00
On this episode, we discuss all things oak with Dan Dey, a research forester with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station. Nationally, Dan is one of the leading voices in conversations ...
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S.1 Ep.3: Red Pine, Fire, Oh My! from 2020-08-19T08:00
In this episode we sit down to have a chat (virtually that is) with Jed Meunier, a research scientist with WDNR – Division of Forestry, to discuss how frequent low to moderate intensity fires sh...
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S.1 Ep.2: Is This a Deer Thing? from 2020-07-08T10:00
When it comes to regenerating a forest in eastern United States, most foresters know that deer browse will often be part of the equation. But assessing the severity of browse and ultimately its...
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S.1 Ep.1: One Plot to Rule Them All from 2020-06-12T12:00
Ensuring forests regenerate well following a harvest is a basic element of sustainable forestry and that is why good monitoring is so important. In this episode we introduce a new natural regen...
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