{"id":479,"date":"2024-06-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2024-06-06T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T01:38:35","slug":"why-all-of-this-focus-on-finland-all-of-a-sudden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/why-all-of-this-focus-on-finland-all-of-a-sudden\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this focus on Finland all of a sudden?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sleeping Bear&#8217;s Vandy Johnson will be joining the Bioeconomy Trade and Study Mission from the United States and Canada to Finland the week of June 9th, 2024. Finland has radically changed forest management practices over the last 20 years yielding more timber and a much healthier and resilient forest. There is much to learn from Finland about forestry management and the Bioeconomy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Itinerary<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Monday, June 10, 2024<\/strong><br>Visit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>UPM<\/u><\/a><br>Visit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.storaenso.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Stora Enso<\/u><\/a><br>Visit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kirahub.org\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>KIRAHub and tour to WoodCity Helsinki<\/u><\/a><br>Visit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valmet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Valmet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tuesday, June 11, 2024<\/strong><br>Unveiling the Future of Forestry: A Collaborative Workshop <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday, June 12, 2024<\/strong><br>Visit to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hewsaw.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Veisto<\/u><\/a><br>Visit to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metsagroup.com\/metsafibre\/about-metsafibre\/pulp-production\/aanekoski-bioproduct-mill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Mets\u00e4 Fibre &amp; Pro Nemus Visitor Center<\/u><\/a><br>Dinner in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 with local guests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, June 13, 2024<\/strong><br>Visit to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponsse.com\/en\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Ponsse<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday, June 14, 2024<\/strong><br>Visit to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riveria.fi\/in-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Riviera<\/u><\/a><br>Visit to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businessjoensuu.fi\/en\/forestjoensuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Joensuu: Forest thinning operation, Visit to Utra forest, etc<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vandy plans on posting information from the trade mission daily.    He is also writing an article about the event for the fall edition of the Minnesota Forestry Association\u2019s <em>Minnesota Woodlands<\/em> newsletter.&nbsp;  Vandy will join other Minnesota trade mission participants for a panel discussion at the MFA annual Gathering at the North Star Expo on Friday, September 13, 2024 at the Grand Rapids county fairgrounds.  More details to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping Bear&#8217;s Vandy Johnson will be joining the Bioeconomy Trade and Study Mission from the United States and Canada to Finland the week of June 9th, 2024. Finland has radically changed forest management practices over the last 20 years yielding more timber and a much healthier and resilient forest. There is much to learn from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/why-all-of-this-focus-on-finland-all-of-a-sudden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why this focus on Finland all of a sudden?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finland","tag-forest-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phepCL-7J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}