Tree School Online
Class Guide
Tree School Online webinars feature some of your favorite traditional Tree School classes along with some new ones. In this class guide, you will find information on upcoming Tree School Online classes as well as links to videos and resources from past classes.

When available, each Tree School Online webinar will include resources attached to their class information (below). Here you will find class descriptions, resources from instructors, and continuing education credit request forms for qualifying classes.

Register for Tree School Webinars and webinars from the Forests of Eastern Oregon Series on the Partnership for Forestry Education "Know Your Forest" website.


Each Tree School Online webinar will include resources attached to their class information (below). Here you will find class descriptions, resources from instructors, continuing education credit request forms for qualifying classes, and a video of the webinar.
Business & Planning
- Choosing the right forestry professionals
- Forest carbon for the family forest owner
- Forest management plan writing for tree farmers
- Forest sustainability and certification
- Making maps for management planning
- Free online forestry planning
- Oregon's forest protection laws
- Overcoming reforestation challenges
- Thinking about the future of your forest: passing it onto the next owner
- Your property taxes & your forest land
Christmas Trees
- Christmas tree research update, 2020
- Christmas tree experimenting: what’s new and what stays the same after 40 years
General
- Carbon in Oregon's managed forests
- COVID-19 and the Oregon forest sector
- Into the woods
- Landowner incentives and resources
- Native trees of western Oregon
- Trees on the move: migration of tree species in response to climate change
Management
- Best practices of managing logging slash piles and burning
- Biology & management of Oregon white oak
- Biology and management of western redcedar
- Forest management methods (Silviculture)
- Healthy streams: a family’s journey toward fish habitat restoration
- Introduction to small woodland management
- Managing for beneficial understory vegetation
- Managing to keep your forest healthy
- Pruning timber & landscape trees for quality health
- Replanting your forest after timber harvest or wildfire
- So you want to plant some trees
- Spacing & thinning of young stands
- Using nature as a model for forest management
- Woodland roads: are you ready for the winter?
Pest & Weeds
- Insects in the trees: pests or non-pests?
- Managing root & butt rot of conifers
- Wind, rain and dead sanoak: sudden oak death in Oregon
Special Products
- Commercial truffle cultivation in western Oregon
- Diamonds under the Douglas-fir
- Goods from the woods
- Making shiitake appen
Tools, Equipment, & Safety
Water
Wildfire
- Managing your forest with fire in mind - part 1
- Managing your forest with fire in mind - part 2
- Prescribed fire in Oregon
- Replanting your forest after timber harvest or wildfire
- Wildfire in your forest future & what you can do about it
Wildlife

You can find Tree School Webinars and other forestry education videos on the Partnership for Forestry Education "Know Your Forest" YouTube channel.


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Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made at least three weeks prior to the webinar(s) in which you intend to participate. Contact Jean Bremer by email at [email protected] or phone, 503-655-8631.
Upcoming schedule and topics:
There are currently no new classes scheduled.
Tree School Online is brought to you by OSU Extension Forestry and Natural Resources and Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) with the Partnership for Forestry Education.
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