Tree School Online library

Each Tree School Online webinar recording includes resources from instructors 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
• Free online forestry planning
• Making maps for management 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 and your forest land

Christmas Trees

• Christmas tree experimenting: what’s new and what stays the same after 40 years
• Christmas tree research update, 2020

General

• Carbon in Oregon's managed forests
• COVID-19 and the Oregon forest sector
• 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 and 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 and 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 and butt rot of conifers
• Wind, rain and dead tanoak: sudden oak death in Oregon

Special Products

• Commercial truffle cultivation in western Oregon
• Diamonds under the Douglas-fir
• Goods from the woods
• Making shiitake happen

Tools, Equipment, & Safety

• Small engine care and maintenance

Water

• Fish habitat and riparian management
• Restoring riparian areas: beginner level

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 and what you can do about it

Wildlife

• Coyotes: wild & free
• Forests as habitat for wildlife: priority actions for habitat management
• Getting to know forest amphibians of Oregon
• Secret life of birds
• See the forest for the bees
• Support your local raptors

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