Welcome to the Cloquet Forestry Center

The Cloquet Forestry Center is the University’s primary research and education forest. The Center serves the research, teaching, and education needs of the natural resources community. It is also home to Extension’s Cloquet Regional office.

The Center includes 3,506 acres that support broad areas of research and education. Meeting facilities and classrooms can accommodate up to 140 people, with onsite lodging and food service. Explore our website or contact us for additional information.

Facts

• The Cloquet Forestry Center was established primarily through the efforts of Professor Samuel Green, head of the University of Minnesota Forestry School, Fred Vibert, state senator and publisher of the Cloquet newspaper, and Rudolph and Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, both of whom had interests in several Cloquet area sawmills, railroads, and logging operations. The primary intent for establishing a research forest was to determine how to best reforest cut-over lands (Carroll 1987).
  

• Most research and management efforts at the Center were directed toward reforestation through the 1920s. The Center established a seedling nursery in 1915 for both research and seedling production. Two years later the nursery was producing one million seedlings annually for reforestation at the Center and around the state (Kenety 1917).
  

• The American Forest Council designated the Cloquet Forestry Center as a Certified Tree Farm in 1989.
  

• Since 1910 the Cloquet Forestry Center has been one of the most intensely managed forests in the Lake States region.
  

• The Cloquet Forestry Center is home to timber wolves, black bear, moose, deer, lynx, and bobcats.
  

• The Cloquet Forestry Center conducts timber harvesting on approximately 35 acres each year.
  

• The Cloquet Forestry Center averages 6 new research projects annually.

CFANS Alumni and Friends Day 2011

Over 50 CFANS alumni and friends gathered at the Cloquet Forestry Center on July 30 to reconnect and learn about some of our College's most historic research.

Review event and photographs

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JOB OPPORTUNITY

Assoc or Full Professor/Forest Resources and Director of Operations, Cloquet Forestry Ctr