33rd Annual Mud Season Breakfast for 2025 | Registration opens March 24!

2025 Coös Mud Season Breakfast | Registration Deadline: May 1!

Errol Fire Station, Errol, NH | Bayroot Property, Dummer, NH 

This workshop is approved for: 5.0 Category 1 CFEs from SAF | 6.0 hours PLP Recertification Credits

AGENDA

7:30 – 9:00 Registration & Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ray Berthiaume, UNH Cooperative Extension, Coös County Forester
Updates:
NHF&L – Patrick Hackley; Director Division F & L | NHTOA – Jasen Stock, NHTOA | USFS – Roger Boyer, Timber Sale Coordinator | GFGS Update – Karen Bennett, Steve Roberge
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:35-11:05 Current Markets & Updates from Milan Lumber
Milan Lumber: Richard Roy, Wood Procurement
Rich will update us on their manufacturing facilities as well as associated markets.
11:10 – 11:30 Forest Industry Markets-Updates
Andy Fast, UNH Cooperative Extension Forest Industry Specialist
Andy will give us an update of market conditions and anything market related coming along.
11:35 – 11:45 Upcoming Workshops
Seedlings to Schools Program
Logistics for Afternoon Field Trip
Ray Berthiaume, UNH Cooperative Extension
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch on your own / travel to field visit
1:00 – 4:00 Field Visit:
Visit to a managed spruce/fir and mixed wood stands. Discussions around harvest prescriptions, systems, resulting regeneration, and Deer Wintering Areas. Some focus on insect pests.
Wagner Forest Management – Scott Rineer & Josh Demers

If you need an accommodation to participate in our programming, please contact Ray Berthiaume, 603-788-4961, ray.berthiaume@unh.edu, prior to the event. Given ample time, we will make any reasonable effort to meet your needs, including language access services if requested, which will be provided free of charge.

The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. UNH, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and New Hampshire counties cooperating. Direct inquiries to unh.civilrights@unh.edu.