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  • EVENTS: LANDOWNER'S HARDWOOD MANAGEMENT COURSE AND FIELD TOUR

    September 25, 2015; 8 a.m.

    Landowner's Hardwood Management Course and Field Tour

    Henderson Civic Center
    1500 Lake Forest Parkway, Henderson, Texas

    Hosted by
    Texas A&M Forest Service
    Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
    College of Forestry and Agriculture - SFA

    Sponsored in part by International Paper

    This workshop is intended to provide a basic overview of the latest knowledge of hardwood management, both upland and bottomland, in the East Texas region. This workshop is intended primarily for the private, non-industrial, family forest landowner. It will provide general information on the topics listed below and an exciting tour, showing the forest reclamation efforts and mining equipment of Luminant’s Oak Hill mine, will help to visualize the positive benefits of proactive hardwood management.

    8:00 Defining goals
    • What does a healthy, resiliency hardwood forest look like?
    • Inappropriate practices that degrade forests and hinder survival
    • Defining realistic goals, realizing limitations

    9:00 Recipes for successfully regenerating hardwood forests
    • Recipe for natural regeneration
    • Recipe for artificial regeneration
    • Recipe for enhancement planting
    • Multi-species hardwood plantings

    10:15 Tending to existing hardwood forests
    • Why bother?
    • How to control unwanted vegetation
    • How to determine which trees to cut or leave
    • How to attract more wildlife through forest management

    11:15 Regenerate, thin, or do nothing: Deciding what to do
    • Hardwood markets
    • Financial assistance
    • Cost and cost trends for forestry practices

    12:15 Lunch (provided)
    1:00 Field Tour – Oak Hill hardwood management areas
    3:30 Return, Wrap Up and Adjourn

    Instructors
    Kyle Cunningham - Assistant Professor of Forestry, University of Arkansas
    Dan Darr - Senior Mine Environmental Specialist, Luminant Mining Company
    Jeremy Poirier - West Region Fiber Certification Manager, International Paper Company
    Hughes Simpson - Program Leader, Texas A&M Forest Service
    Jeremy Stovall - Associate Professor of Silviculture, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Eric Taylor - Silviculturist III, Texas A&M Forest Service; and Forestry Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

    RSVP
    Contact Klara Fielder kfielder@tfs.tamu.edu at 979-458-6660.

    This event is free and lunch is provided. Space is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged.
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