Event

Date/Time
Date(s) - February 25, 2026
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Categories

• Events
• Learning

Unsure of what goes into a sustainable timber harvest? Scared you are going to ruin your woods forever?

Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026  from 1-3 p.m. for our Snowy Silviculture Stroll – Winter Timber Harvest Site Tour in Kirtland. The exact location will be provided closer to the event for the protection of the private property owners.

Let us answer your questions and ease your fears on a guided tour through a recently harvested forest. 

See what logging and timber harvest best management practices look like in the field, and how they benefit your forest during and after a harvest.

Learn about planning of a harvest, working with a consulting forester, Forestry Pollution Prevention Plans(FP3), Ohio’s Forestry Pollution Abatement Law, and the Call Before You Cut Program.

Tour Guides

Joel Firem
Firem Forestry Consulting Owner & Harvest Site Consulting Forester

Chad Edgar
Lake SWCD Resource Protection Specialist, Harvester Site FP3 Reviewer

Jason Van Houten
ODNR Division of Forestry, Area 6 State Service Forester

Registration

Registration is required for this free virtual workshop.

More Information

For more information, contact the county Farm Bureau office at 440-426-2195 or [email protected] or contact Lake Soil and Water at 440-350-2730 or [email protected].

Flyer

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This event is part of the Forestry Program Series; Tree to Stream: Forestry for Grand River Health

Event brought to you by Geauga, Lake, Ashtabula, Portage, and Trumbull Soil & Water Conservation Districts; ODNR Division of Forestry; ODNR Division of Wildlife; Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Trumbull, and Portage County Farm Bureaus; Holden Arboretum, and USDA NRCS