Tools for Living with Fire Event

Tools for Living with Fire Event

Date: June 15, 2024

Location: Minnesota North Vermilion Campus

Description: The Tools for Living with Fire Event is an opportunity for landowners to gain invaluable empowerment tools for managing your land effectively. The interactive afternoon session will be held outside - weather permitting. Cost $10 nonrefundable, with event proceeds donated to Ely Community Resource Center. If space is available, same day registration will be accepted.

Cost: $10 per ticket. All proceeds will be donated to the Ely Community Resource Center.

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 Registration (Coffee & Snacks)

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and What is a Fire Adapted Community?

Gloria Erickson, Dovetail Partners, Inc Contracted St. Louis County Firewise Coordinator

9:15 - 9:45 Fires Past and Fire's Future in Northern Minnesota

Lane Johnson, Forest ResearcherUniversity of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center

9:45 - 10:45 Climate-ready Woodlands: Rewilding Your Backyard Woods

Anna Stockstad, Extension Educator, Forest Ecosystem Heath, University of MN, Extension

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Preparing Before, During and After a Wildfire Emergency

Deborah Trent, MN DAK Volunteer, American Red Cross

11:30 - 12:00 Homeowner Firewise Best Practices

Laura Murphy, MN DNR Regional Firewise Program Specialist

12:00 - 12:15 Video: “Rooted in the Future”

Produced by Dovetail Partners, Inc

12:15 - 1:00 Boxed Lunch Provided

1:00 - 1:30 Creating a Land Stewardship Plan

Victoria Jari, Forester, MN DNR Private Lands Management

Tristan Nelson, Forester, North St. Louis Soil & Water Conservation District

Zach Evans, Regional Farm Bill Forester, North St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District, NRCS

1:30 - 2:00 “Fuel Reduction and Friendship”

One More Tree, a group of Ely - area residents and landowners.

2:00 - 2:15 Break and walk outside to Kawishiwi Ranger Station

(Interactive afternoon outside event, weather permitting)

2:30 - 4:00 Hazardous Woody Debris Disposal Options

“The Art of Safe Pile Burning”

Nicole Selmer, Fire Prevention Technician, West Zone Superior National Forest, Kawishiwi Ranger District

“Hand cut, Mulching, Chipping”

Austin Van Scoy, Dutchman Tree Service

4:00 - 4:30 Wrap Up and Raffle for Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

Kawishiwi District Ranger Station

1393 MN-169, Ely, MN 55731

This event was made possible with grant funding from: Bi- Partisan Infrastructure Law CommunityWildfire Defense Grant, MN DNR Firewise Community Grant Program, US Forest Service, and the SFI Community Grant.

This Institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Questions? Visit www.minnesotafac.org or contact Gloria Erickson, St. Louis County Firewise Coordinator at gloria@dovetailinc.org or 218-365-0878.