Events
Events Overview
QCI organizes a wide range of programming and events throughout the year. Regular events include our Harvest Festival every fall, a variety of field-based workshops and town hall events throughout the academic year, and a lineup of research seminars, workshops, and film screenings each summer. We hold our events at Yale-Myers Forest Camp in Eastford, elsewhere in Yale-Myers Forest, or in one of the nearby communities we work with.
Please note: Yale University’s campus, including our Forest Camp at Yale-Myers, has limited access due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, this means that we currently havelimited in-person workshops on the calendar.
Summer Seminar Series
Our 2023 summer research seminar series will be held in-person at Yale-Myers Forest Camp. Please click the links below to register to attend.
We invite in-person attendees to join us at Yale-Myers Forest Camp at 6:00 pm (seminars begin promptly at 6:30 pm). 0.5 CEUs per seminar will be available for licensed forest practitioners. Contact nora.hardy@yale.edu for any questions.
June 14th - https://cglink.me/2dA/r2091502
June 28th - https://cglink.me/2dA/r2091543
July 12th - https://cglink.me/2dA/r2091544
July 26th - https://cglink.me/2dA/r2091549
Maple Education & Extension Program
For events through the Yale Forests’ Maple Program, please see our program page here.
The following schedule of maple workshops will be held in 2022. Please email schoolforests@yale.edu to RSVP.
Intro to wood evaporator and reverse osmosis use
Date: Saturdays March 5th and 12th
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Advanced syrup processing and filtering
Date: Saturday April 23
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Maple Silviculture: sugar maple regeneration and timber harvesting
Date: Saturday July 16th
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Maple Silviculture: sugar maple regeneration and timber harvesting
Date: Wednesday July 27th
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Great Mountain Forest - 201 Windrow Rd, Norfolk, CT
Producer to producer knowledge transfer on sap collection and processing
Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 4:00-6:30pm
Cost: Free
Location: Justamere Tree Farm in Worthington, MA
Sap collection: tubing system installation and sap storage
Date: Saturday October 22nd
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
This three-year initiative is supported by a grant from the USDA Acer Access and Development Program.
Webinar Recordings
Get to Know Your Forester: Why & How We Manage Forests
December 2, 2020 | Recording
CT DEEP Service Foresters Andrea Urbano and Frank Cervo joined us for a discussion about how we care for our forested landscapes in Connecticut. We talked about who foresters are and what they do, before moving into an overview of forest management practices, which are often modeled after natural disturbances like wind and storm events. We closed with some thoughts on how we manage forests with all sorts of different goals and objectives in mind, from wildlife habitat to climate resiliency to water quality.
Past Events
February 22, 2020: Winter Wildlife Tracking Workshop
November 10, 2019: Climate Change Field Series, Part 1 - Managing Forests for a Changing Climate
October 24, 2019: Climate Change Town Hall - Energy & Environmental Policy Solutions for Connecticut in the Anthropocene
October 12, 2019: Women’s Chainsaw Safety Training
October 11, 2019: Dinner Discussion on Women in Forestry
June 12, 2019: Botany Walk
February 21, 2019: Climate Change Town Hall - Panel Discussion on landscape, water, and soils
January 26, 2019: Horse Logging and Portable Sawmill Workshop
December 5, 2018: Winter Tree ID and Forest Ecology
August 2, 2018: Forest Management for Game Birds
July 25, 2018: Trail Siting and Design