2018 FRA Lake States Fall Meeting

Monday September 17th

• 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM - FRA Lake States Region Policy Committee Meeting  (LSR allied association reps and potential members invited) -Speakers: NLEB Habitat Conservation Plan Update, Fred Souba (Administrator, Division of Forestry, WI DNR) and SFI Small Lands Program, Gordon Mouw (Director of Program Participant Relations, SFI) 
• 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Policy Committee Social & Dinner (Location TBD)

Tuesday September 18th 

• 7:00 AM - Registration
• 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM - Breakfast
• 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM - General Session - "Workforce Development - What is the Value Proposition?"
  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM - Welcome, Meeting Overview and Objectives
  • 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM - LSR Resource Overview/Opportunities - Pete Coutu, Vice President of Sales, Forest2Market
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM - Training Truck Drivers - Karl Pinter, Instructor/Dept. Chair Chippewa Valley Technical College
  • 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM - TEAM Safe Trucking - Miranda Gowell, Special Projects Manager, TEAM Safe Trucking
• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Morning Break
• 10:45 AM - 6:00 PM  - Field Tour (Includes lunch - courtesy of Kretz Lumber Company and reception courtesy of McCoy Construction and Forestry)
  • 10:45 AM - Bus departs the Jefferson Street Inn
  • 11:00 AM - Tour of Kretz Lumber Company near Antigo, WI. Split into three groups, with each rotating between lunch, mill tour, and woods tour
  • 1:30 PM - Bus departs the Jefferson Street Inn
  • 1:45 PM - Tour of Northcentral Technical College Wood Science Lab in Antigo, WI
  • 3:00 PM - Group departs Northcentral Technical College
  • 4:00 PM - Site tour and Reception - McCoy Construction and Forestry
  • 5:45 PM - Bus departs McCoy Construction and Forestry
• 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Awards Banquet
• 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Silent Auction - Benefiting Log A Load For Kids

Wednesday September 19th

• 7:00 AM - Registration
• 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM - Breakfast
• 8:15 AM - 10:00 AM - General Session - "What is the Value Proposition"
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM - Logger Business Survey MN, MI, and WI - Charlie Blinn, UMN, and Mark Rickenbach, UW-Madison.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM - A case study in Using Field Immersion Activities in the Training of New Foresters: the UWSP Northern Hardwood Marking Certificate - Michael Demchik, UW-Stevens Point
  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM - Break
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM - Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs: Talent Attraction Initiative - Steven Janke, Statewide Veterans Field Representative, DVA
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM - FRA Public Policy Review
  • 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Closing Comments and Feedback
• 12:00 - Adjourn