You can find recordings of previous forums here on YouTube: ​MnSTAC Forums Playlist

2025

04/17/2025: Fruit and Nut Producing Plants for Home and Community

02/27/2025: Minnesota DNR Urban and Community Forestry Overview
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01/16/2025: Community Forestry & Financial Support Programs for Low-Income Communities

2024

12/19/2024: Active Collection, Organization, and Redistribution or Nuts and Seeds (ACORNS)

10/10/24: Transforming Wood Waste into a Valuable Resource: Urban Wood Utilization
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09/19/24: Learn from Minnesota's Urban & Community Forestry IRA grant recipients
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02/15/24: MN Tree Steward Volunteer Program
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01/18/24: ​Forest Pest Insects of Concern: A Minnesota Update
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2023

12/21/23: Preventing Chloride Damage to Trees and Beyond
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11/16/23: Engaging environmental justice communities in community forest management
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10/26/23: Equitable Workforce Development - Young Professionals in Tree Care
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09/21/23: Living Snow Fences
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08/17/23: Introduction from the new Assistant Professor of Urban and Community Forestry
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08/17/23: Tree Diseases of 2023
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07/20/23: 2023 MN Community Forestry Awards
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04/20/23: Managing Oak Wilt in a Suburban Park District
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02/16/23: Update on Progress on Ash Preservation Carbon Credit Protocol
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2022

12/15/22: Benefits and Use of Tree Trenches In Green Infrastructure
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07/21/22: Climate Impact Corps: making a difference on climate change through Minnesota's community forests
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06/16/22: Integrated Pest Management: managing insect pests and preserving pollinators 
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05/19/22: Trends in Woody Plant Diseases - an update from the UMN Plant Disease Clinic 
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02/17/22: Increasing tree canopy cover through an interactive prioritization tool (Growing Shade Project)
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01/20/22: Tree Nursery Industry Update
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2021

12/16/21: Hickories in Horticulture: Novel Options for Diversifying Managed Landscapes
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11/18/21: Forest health observations from a dry 2021
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10/21/21: Treatment Timings for Disease and Insects
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09/16/21: A View from then Minnesota Woods
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07/15/21: Community Forestry Corps: Service, Inspiration, & Support for Minnesota's Urban & Community Forests
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06/17/21: Granting Minnesota’s Urban Forest
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05/20/21: Relationships between consultant discipline and specified tree diversity: A case study of two Iowa (USA) communities
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04/15/21: Tree Preservation and Construction: Can a Municipal Ordinance Successfully Protect Trees?
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03/18/21: How Much Space Does My Street Tree Need?
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02/18/21: Cornucopia in the City: Growing Urban Agriculture with Trees
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01/21/21: Producing Healthy Long-Lived Trees for Our Community Forest
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2020

12/17/20: American Chestnut: History, Restoration, Opportunities and Challenges
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November Virtual Forum Recording: 
Community Gravel Beds
September Virtual Forum Recording: 
​Successful Tree Ordinances: Development & Implementation
2020 Virtual MnSTAC Community Forestry Field Day
Assessing strength loss in trees: knowing when it's time to correct and preserve or say goodbye
Video presentation

2018

Ginkgo Seeds: Nuisance or new opportunity?
-Ryan Murphy
-November, 2018
Probably More Than You Thought You'd Ever Want To Know About Tree Roots And Root Systems
-Gary Johnson
-September, 2018
What's Happening to Our Trees?
-Gary Johnson, Brian Schwingle, Gina Hugo, Gail Nozal
-June, 2018
What Trees Will We Be Pruning, Watering, Tending Sitting Under in 2050?
-Gary Johnson, Chad Giblin
-May, 2018
How Minnesota's Urban Forests Could Be More Functional
-Gary Johnson

2017

 Community Gravel Beds: Helping Reforest Minnesota on a Budget 
-Jacob Busiahn, Dustin Ellis, Gary Johnson, Stephan Papiz
-November, 2017

2016

Preparing Urban Forests in the Twin Cities for Climate Change​
-Various speakers
-November 15-16, 2016

2015

Avoid Ticks & Tick-Borne Diseases
- Rick Dahlman
- May 21, 2015
- Forum Recording
The Elms are back: Exercise caution
- Chad Giblin - Research Fellow - University of Minnesota
- April 23, 2015
​- Forum Recording

2014

The Latest Dirt on Earthworm Invasion in Minnesota
- Lee Frelich is a Research Associate and Director of the Center for Forest Ecology at the University of Minnesota
- December 11, 2014
Diagnosing Oak Wilt by DNA analysis: The next generation of laboratory techniques.
-Anna Yang, graduate research assistant, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota. - November 20, 2014
Bur Oak Problems
- Brian Schwingle, DNR forest health specialist for central and southern Minnesota.- September 18, 2014 
Green Corp Urban Forestry Member Presentations
- July 17, 2014

Kristin Taggart
City of Hutchinson

Maria DeLaundreau
Cottonwood Restoration -  Mississippi River Fund

Monica Sweeney
City of Minnetonka
Current Tree Insect Issues
- Jeffrey Hahn, Extension Entomologist 
- June 19, 2014

Current Tree Disease Issues
- Michelle Grabowski, Associate Extension Professor in Horticulture and Plant Pathology,University of Minnesota
- June 19, 2014
Boulevard Tree Failures During Wind Loading Events: One Storm - One Day - One Event
- Gary Johnson, Professor Urban & Community Forestry, University of Minnesota
- May, 2014
- Forum Recording
Cold Weather Impacts on Emerald Ash Borer:  State of the Science
- Rob Venette, Research Biologist, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station
- February 20, 2014
Elm Selection Program: Minnesota
- Chad P. Giblin, Research Fellow, University of Minnesota
- January 16, 2014

When Immovable Infrastructure Meets Irresistible Trees 
- Eric North, Research Fellow, University of Minnesota
- January 16, 2014

2013

Bees and Trees 
- Marla Spivak, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- December 12, 2013
Trees provide bees with natural nesting sites, feeding bonanzas, and medicinal resins.  Arborists are perfectly suited to having a positive impact on bee health.  Learn how you can help bees help themselves.

Physiological Drought Stress: Interactive Effects of Drought and Forest Pests 
- Ryan Blaedow
- June 20, 2013
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