2022 Women’s Forest Congress Experience and Camp Ripley Tour
Author and Photos by Candra Burns of Talking Forests People who identify as women within the forest community have been creating an in-person congress for two years. We finally came together in a 4-day event in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our schedule had events towards a common goal of coming together and marching towards a better future…
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Tree Planting Should Be a Conscious Choice
Authors: Lindsay Lights Forintos and Candra Burns A child of the city says they are tired of grey! They want to see green!! What is green and renewable? A tree, to be exact. This child’s dream is to lay under a full tree canopy and look up at the leaves rustling in the wind. Children…
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Cradle of Forestry and the APSAF Centennial Monument
Patrick Hiesl the Assistant Professor of Forest Operations from Clemson University was interviewed by Candra Burns of Talking Forests about the Cradle of Forestry, the APSAF Centennial Monument, and Carl Schenck a German Forester who brought sustainable forest practices to the USA in 1895. Patrick was an undergrad in Germany where he is from. During…
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Bavarian Forest ~ Wooden Tree Tower
The Fall landscape of the Bavarian National Forest did not disappoint Talking Forests, we dreamed about this landscape our entire lives. Some compared it to the stateside upstate New York landscape, do you agree? Checkout our Medium publication “Discovering Treetop Walkways in Europe” where we have articles about wooden treetop towers in Saarschleife, Germany, Salzkammergut,…
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Treetop Walkway on largest island in Germany, Rügen
Author and Photos by Talking Forests Baumwipfelpfad Naturerbe Zentrum Ruegen on the island of Rügen was a spiral wooden walk worth taking for the views from the bottom of the forest floor to the tree canopy to the views of the water at the top of the tower. What is the best part? Rügen is…
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Austrian Wooden Wonder Treetop Walk Salzkammergut
Author and Photos by Talking Forests Austrian Wooden Wonder Treetop Walk Salzkammergut Our Austrian adventure was amazing with wood as the theme all week. The main event was when we visited Baumwipfelpfad Salzkammergut which translates to Treetop Walk Salzkammergut, truly an Austrian Wooden Wonder. The start of our trip was in a wooden hut…
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The Wooden Punch Buggy Beetle
Author and Photos by Talking Forests Talking Forests visited Wolfsburg, Germany to tour the Volkswagen museums. We were surprised to see a VW Beetle made of wood at the Stiftung AutoMuseum (https://www.automuseum-volkswagen.de/en.html)! The first car we owned was a 2001 VW Jetta Wolfsburg edition so naturally going to the museums was a great idea. …
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Wooden Wonders: German Urbach Tower
Author and Photos by Talking Forests University of Stuttgart created a self-shaping cross-laminated-timber tower in the German town called Urbach. Talking Forests was so excited to see this wooden wonder in person. “The design of the tower emerges from a new self-shaping process of the curved wood components. This pioneering development constitutes a paradigm…
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The Role UK Plays in Global Forestry National Conference
The Institute of Chartered Foresters is the professional body for foresters and arboriculturists in the United Kingdom. I first heard of this organization when I was talking with Andy Heald a member who works for Confor, a membership organization for sustainable forestry and wood-using businesses. He invited me to go to the Association of Professional…
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Tacoma Washington Wooden Wonders
Author and Photos by Talking Forests A wooden conference you have been waiting for! We are ready to show Portland Mass Timber conference attendees what we do. Check out some of the work Talking Forests has done. www.talkingforests.com/portfolio/ The International Mass Timber Conference is back with popular demand in Portland, Oregon this week! People from…
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