CFC 2022 Open House

August 24, 2022, 4:30-8 PM

Cloquet Forestry Center

several people standing in the woods amongst tall pine trees
UMN research and outreach center (ROC) faculty and staff learn from a red pine woodland fire restoration site, July 2022

Come learn about what we do at the primary research and demonstration forest for the University of Minnesota.

Join us Wednesday, August 24th at the University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center for our 2022 Open House! Pick and choose from our list of events:

4:30-8:00

  • Room at the Table Food Truck (pulled pork/chicken sandwiches, veggie and gluten free options, sides, snacks, sweets, beverages)
  • Door prizes (sign up to win CFC swag, need not be present to win)
  • Self-guided Walking Tour along the blue loop, through Camp 8, etc. (open until September 30th)
  • BioBlitz through iNaturalist Cloquet Forestry Center Project
  • iNaturalist support

5:00-5:20    iNaturalist introduction with Eli Sagor
5:00-6:30    Intro to CFC research, education, and stewardship wagon tour with Kyle Gill
6:30-8:00    Intro to CFC research, education, and stewardship wagon tour with Kyle Gill
6:45-7:15    Future forest species walk (leaving from Pavilion)  with Andy David 

Share your observations at the CFC!
Help us grow our inventory of species at the CFC! Throughout September 2022, we’re encouraging folks to record observations of plants, animals, fungi, or other species that you see here. Any observations on the CFC property will automatically be added to the CFC project on iNaturalist, which you can see at http://z.umn.edu/inatCFC. (Please stay on or near roads and away from research plots.) 

How to observe nature using iNaturalist: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QUMIrk3szHUkXARyBjodSv7k6pPVaU5MI3L8up3EIk/edit#

Self-guided walking tour
If you can’t make it on the 24th, the self-guided walking tour can be explored any day through September 30th. Individuals who participate in the self-guided tour are eligible to win a raffle prize at the end of September with submission of their stamped walking tour punch card. 

A printed copy of the self-guided walking tour map will be available on the day of the event at the Welcome table located near the kiosk off the main parking lot.

For more information contact: cfc@umn.edu or call 218-726-6400.