2024 SAF National Convention Registration

2024 SAF National Convention Registration
Use this form to register for the 2024 SAF National Convention, taking place September 17-20, SAF Convention events will be held at the Embassy Suites Loveland Hotel & Conference Center and The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland, Colorado

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After you log in, click the "Register Myself" button and select the appropriate registration option. A full list of fees and registration details can be found here.

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Interested in pre-ordering a convention-themed t-shirt? Add the shirt to your convention registration and pick it up in person at convention! Visit the Program options below to add a t-shirt to your cart.  

Note: when selecting the "Group Rate" registration option, the registrar will need to send a list of registrants to [email protected]. Contact us for a template at [email protected].

If you have any questions about registration or convention, contact us at [email protected].
When
9/17/2024 8:00 AM - 9/20/2024 4:00 PM
Where
Embassy Suites Loveland Hotel and Conference Ctr 4705 Clydesdale Parkway Loveland, CO 80538 UNITED STATES

Program

   

Wednesday, 01 May 2024

Description
2024 Convention T-Shirt
This year’s convention t-shirt will celebrate Loveland: The City of Trees as an aerial view of the tree cityscape printed on a grey shirt. Would you like to add a shirt to your order? If so, please choose your size and quantity. T-shirt orders must be made by September 8. You can choose your size after you add a shirt to the cart: XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL.
Category
Extras
Time
5/1/2024 - 8/2/2024

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Description
One Day Registration - Tuseday
SAF membership is not required for this registration rate. Registration includes access to all Tuesday in-person activities including Plenary I, opening reception, expo hall, and quiz bowl.
Category
One Day Registration

Replanting the Future (full day)
The need for increasing nursery capacity is the highest it has been. Attend this all day field trip and tour OneCanopy, CSFS Nursery, and the Historical High Plains Arboretum. Speakers from each nursery will highlight their role in meeting the demand, demonstrate state of the art technology and growing techniques, and discuss the unique collaboration and partnership each nursery has with various stakeholders. Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
7:45 AM - 3:00 PM
7:45 AM

Ponderosa Pine Restoration and Monitoring (full day)
Ponderosa pine is among the predominant fire adapted species of North America, but fire exclusion from this ecosystem has significantly increased fire effects from low intensity surface fires to high intensity stand replacing events. This ecosystem is an important boundary in many Wildland Urban Interfaces along the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West between grassland and shrubland systems and wetter mixed-conifer forests. This tour will explore various aspects of the research and management efforts that are underway to reestablish forest structures tolerant of repeated burning. Participants will look at how forest density targets are determined, how drone and terrestrial laser scanning can inform prescription development, the importance of heterogeneity to disturbance resilience, and an active treatment. Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
7:45 AM - 3:00 PM
7:45 AM

Forest Management at the Summit (full day)
View the proactive and collaborative partnership approach to forest management in Summit County, Colorado that the United States Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service, and Denver Water are using to mitigate future wildfire impacts to the community and water source for the City of Denver. Attendees will tour a successful fuels treatment buffer around the Wildernest subdivision that was critical in saving property and infrastructure during the Buffalo Mountain wildfire, explore efforts to increase tree species diversity in high use developed campgrounds along the shores of Dillon Reservoir, and learn about Denver Water’s Forest to Faucet program at a scenic overlook. Participants will have the bonus of potential leaf peeping on the drive up and around the Dillon Reservoir. Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
7:45 AM

Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative (full day)
This tour will highlight the rich tapestry of treatments, strategies, creative solutions, and relationships that have contributed to joint success within the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative. This full day tour will highlight the Fireshed “Stages of Readiness” and demonstrate how partners in the Poudre Watershed moved from planning to landscape scale implementation. Speakers will discuss treatment effectiveness, cross-jurisdictional partnerships, strategies for increasing pace & scale, funding mechanisms, and opportunities for adaptation advances. Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
7:45 AM

Wyoming State Forestry Department - Watershed (full day)
Tour the Rob Roy Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) project that is treating 200 acres around the Rob Roy Reservoir, which feeds the City of Cheyenne. Funding from this project came from a previous GNA Timber Sale and the City of Cheyenne. Participants will explore private land fuels management projects, thinning operations, and watershed management in the state. Speakers will discuss the role NGOS play in the management of the landscape, partnerships and collaboration efforts, and landscape approaches in smaller acreage subdivisions all while providing scenic views of the Reservoir. Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
7:45 AM

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Description
One Day Registration - Wednesday
SAF membership is not required for this registration rate. Registration includes access to all Wednesday in-person activities including Plenary II, technical concurrent sessions, People, Policy, & Popcorn sessions, refreshment breaks, the expo hall, meetups, socials, and alumni receptions.
Category
One Day Registration

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Description
One Day Registration – Thursday
SAF membership is not required for this registration rate. Registration includes access to all Thursday in-person activities including Plenary III, technical concurrent sessions, People, Policy, & Popcorn sessions, refreshment breaks, the expo hall, meetups, socials, and SAFter Party.
Category
One Day Registration

Fellows Breakfast
This breakfast is a special event for SAF Fellows only.
Category
Special Events
Time
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
7:00 AM

Friday, 20 September 2024

Description
One Day Registration – Friday
SAF membership is not required for this registration rate. Registration includes access to all Friday in-person activities including technical concurrent sessions, refreshment breaks, and People, Policy, & Popcorn sessions.
Category
One Day Registration

STUDENT TOUR: Explore the CSU Mountain Campus (Full Day)
Student attendees are invited to join the Alpha Student Chapter as they share their educational, research, and forest management experiences at the Colorado State University Mountain Campus; a 1,600-acre campus that sits at 9,000ft elevation. Since 1916, CSU has offered field academic courses and research experiences that allow students to study mountain meadows, lodgepole forests, aspen stands, riparian systems, and high alpine ecosystems. This student-led hiking tour offers peer-to-peer networking and on-site discussions that allow SAF undergraduate and graduate students to compare and contrast their academic and professional pathways. Highlights of this tour will include a hiking tour of fuel mitigation efforts, post-fire restoration, various research sites, and how the students assist the Mountain Campus forest management plans to meet safety, educational, recreational, and forest health goals.
Category
TOURS
Time
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
8:00 AM

AgroForestry - Managing the Resources
Explore Temperate Agroforestry in Colorado – Enjoy lunch at Mehaffey City Park with history of the Park’s Legacy Fruit Orchard, City of Loveland. ; Experience beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountain views as we journey to Viestenz-Smith Mountain Park, Highway 34, where we will discover nature’s Edible Plants with Forage Colorado. Travel along Colorado’s northern foothills to our third stop - The Yellow Barn Farm with Dryland Agroecology Research (DAR), where we will tour the 100-acre scaled demonstration site.  Learn how this non-profit organization is using dryland agroforestry as a model for reversing desertification, sequestering carbon, and building biodiverse agro-ecosystems in Boulder County. Bring questions, be inspired, and enjoy the comradery and ideas on this SAF technical field tour! Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
11:30 AM

Urban & Community Forestry - Managing the Resources
Come explore the many players that make our Colorado community forests what they are - beautiful vibrant places to live, work and play - while providing novel forest resilience and adaptability for the health and enjoyment of present and future generations. On this tour, participants will explore the recovery from natural events and insect and disease epidemics, discover urban wood utilization innovations in the private sector and at a city’s Zero Waste Program, and visit a beautiful park arboretum and Colorado State University’s historic ‘Oval’ featuring elegant American Elms and their preservation management. We will learn from Colorado Tree Coalition non-profit volunteers leading the Trees Across Colorado Program, the ReForest Colorado Grant Program, the Colorado Champion Tree Program, and the Select Tree Evaluation Program – each forwarding the mission to preserve, renew and enhance Colorado’s community forests. Enjoy the learning, comradery, and sights with us as we experience this great afternoon tour! Registration includes lunch, snacks, transportation, and other materials as needed.
Category
TOURS
Time
11:30 AM - 5:15 PM
11:30 AM

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