Hi Scott!

I’m not sure. Good morning to you too!

Logan Johnson, Northeast Region Coordinator, Forest Stewards Guild

Bob Perschel, Executive Director, NEFF, Greetings and thanks for attending!

Good morning,

Frank Lowenstein, Chief Operating Officer, NEFF. Welcome everyone

Kenneth Laustsen, Local Wood Works, a Maine based organization with a regional view

Scott McCue, Volunteer with NEFF

Geordie Elkins, Highstead, Redding, CT

I'm a forester based in Connecticut, working mostly on certification projects throughout the US. Also Chair of Working Group on Forestry and Climate of the Yankee Society of American Foresters

Nancy Patch Vermont FPR

Patrick Rappold, USDA Forest Service, Regional Wood Utilization Specialist

John Bandoni, small forest in Nova Scotia and Western MA

Eric Hansen, Consulting Forester, Connecticut

Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine and Pro Silva Romania

Tom Worthley, Associate Extension Professor, UConn

Farm the Sun ® dual-use solar and grazing/apiaries

Building Science Engineer and Manufacturer. Fully vertically integrated mass timber manufacturer

Theresa Kerchner, Local Wood WORKS, Kennebec Land Trust Hello all..

landowner, board member of NEFF and Midcoast Conservancy, Founder of RAP, a non profit working climate issues globally

Alec Giffen - forester with NEFF

Jeff Spiritos, Spiritos Properties, Mass Timber Developer , NE US

Josye Utick, PNZ Commission Chair, Hartford & architect - greetings, all!

John Manganello, President, Baskahegan Company - good morning!

Greetings all. Russell Chapman, Architectural Consultant, Sierra Pacific Windows

Rick Findlay - NEFF Board Member

Hi all, Lee Burnett wit Local Wood WORKS in Maine. We try to make it easier for builders, designers and architects to source wood products from nearby

John Scanlon, Retired Habitat Program Supervisor for MA Div Fish & Wildlife (MassWildlife). Interested in using wood construction to help conserve forestlands and enhance wildlife habitat.

Consultant: place-based environmental analysis

Brian Donahue -- western MA -- forest landowner

Dicken Crane, Mass Forest Alliance

I would like your help establishing Dirigo Building Science Engineers. Please see dirigobse.com

Monty Lovejoy, NEFF Board member and forest owner/conserver in NH.

I am ready now and getting funding for an entire infrastructure.

Ron Coler; Interested in managing & committing my Forest acreage (in western MA) to maximizing carbon sequestration, storage and committing any future wood products to long-term carbon storage in long-term products.

Ron Coler; Please call me at 207-852-2184 or email me at rrideout@dirigobse.com. I have numerous projects in the works.

Jennifer and Connor:

I would be willing to share my progress and tell you how ready I am to start immediately.

I honestly think I can do this now. I think I can get the financing now. I have the projects and a fully vertically integrated.

However, I am not completely confident that the land owners are ready to be sustainable and I want to be assured that we are being responsible.

other: Fair pay, fair trade like chain of custody

I think that what you are proposing is very good and I look forward to working with an action group if I can provide anything worthwhile.

I meant to share with everyone. I commend you on your efforts. The parts you are researching and sharing, I have matched your efforts with being a specifying engineer that understands how to build with CLT and glulam. Please reference dirigobse.com

My research has focused on demand side. I have numerous projects in the works. I have one that is in Bangor, Maine that will showcase what we can do.

How do you plan to facilitate the transition to higher stocked forests without disrupting current supply chains?

The mass media?

All of these areas need to be addressed.

@Tom Rumpf-- that's a key question that we're working with researchers at U of Maine Orono. Their going to model out how/if it can work, and hopefully eventually address the incentives or policy support that would be needed to make it work for industrial-scale landowners

Caution should be used when aligning with existing certification systems. They evolve quickly, in different directions, and may become unaligned in principle or by logistics. Especially FSC and AFF.

@Kyle Burdick-- great point

However, I think that support of regional/local production should be the first priority.

I have worked in certification for 20 years, and know the systems thoroughly. If "sourcing verification" is really a barrier and is identified as a high priority I'm willing to provide my expertise.

I agree locally sourced wood should be apriority. Also a focus on policy in city and state governments to build using CLT/mass timber. Funds form the infrastucture bill might be available,

Yes. Ron’s restrictions idea is possible, at least in MA.

thanks all! I have to hop off for another call. looking forward to follow-ups

Thanks All at NEFF. - need to head out for a lands committee project.

It is easier to initially source from the "big woods" of northern Maine. But a big opportunity exists in central and southern New England, in terms of overstocked stands. Being able to sell low-quality wood int 2by4 and 2x6 mills would be a game-changer!

Tell them its type 4 construction. Insurance rates go down

We currently have an administration in Washington that has spoken a lot about climate change and the need to do things now. For years there have been government subsidies to make renewable energy a viable industry to reduce carbon footprints (among other reasons). Does anyone know if there is any discussion on the federal level about this being a potential part of a natural solution to climate change as it relates to carbon storage? If not, we should encourage them to put their money where their mouths are.

We should talk to MASS Housing.

Yes. FYI I represent NEFF.

In regard to the "building" section of this effort, I have been told that two of the main themes of what people want buildings to be able to do moving forward is thermal efficiency (passive house standards) and electrification (geothermal etc.). The more we can align wood building with those two aspects of buildings, the more likely it is we'll be able to get peoples' attention!

I want to work together. I am transparent. This is a New England level infrastructure investment to serve the country. I will provide presentations to share my work. I would appreciate the support. My first project is August

Connor and Jennifer, Please share the emails I have sent you that highlight my implementation plan.