Upcoming Classes, Workshops and Events

These online modules will give loggers a better understanding of forest management and appropriate applications of silviculture. Course content includes discussion/powerpoints on historical events, current status of New Hampshire forests, Silvicultural principles of New England, Forest types, landowner goals and objectives, tree growth/maturity/vigor, forest regeneration, wildlife habitat, harvesting systems, and loggers function in silviculture.

An online presentation on the New Hampshire’s Timber Harvesting Laws, Wetland Regulations, and the use of Best Management Practices.

First aid procedures for a variety of common conditions, including muscular, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries. “Hands-On,” training to review bandaging techniques, and emergency remote trauma care for an injured worker.

First aid procedures for a variety of common conditions, including muscular, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries. “Hands-On,” training to review bandaging techniques, and emergency remote trauma care for an injured worker.

Join industry specialists for the low down on recent events, insect pests, diseases, and the effects on oak and overall forest health and management.

Instructors will provide "hands-on" training for topics in chainsaw maintenance and safety and safe tree felling techniques.

A one-day workshop presenting information on New Hampshire’s Timber Harvesting Laws, Wetland Regulations, and the use of Best Management Practices. Practical, hands-on instruction for today’s logging professional.

First aid procedures for a variety of common conditions, including muscular, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries.

s. Instructors will discuss and demonstrate handling difficult felling situations, leaners, hazard trees, operating around power lines, and using mechanized equipment to get trees down or process wind falls.

Presented by the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association (NELMA), the lumber grading authority for the softwood industry located in the Northeastern and Great Lakes regions.

This is a special workshop including basic chainsaw maintenance and care, inspection of personal protective equipment, hazard and situational awareness, chainsaw safety best practices, and a felling and limbing demonstration.

The objectives of the New Hampshire Timber Harvesting Council (NHTHC) are to promote a better understanding of timber harvesting while improving the lives and livelihoods of professional loggers and forest products truckers.

Estimating grade, scale, and value on the stump can be helpful when you’re turning the standing tree into product in the woods or on the landing. We’ll trace this process backward from a hardwood log yard to the trees standing in the forest.

Join industry and resource specialists to learn about concepts for business management which include assessing logging productivity, and logging costs with an introduction to PATH (Planning and Analysis in Timber Harvesting), developed, authored, and made available to the logging community by Dr. Steven Bick. Matt Kelley and Dr. Bick have worked together presenting this material in the past.