Extension Communications
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
2/5/03
Contacts:
Paul Wray, Forestry Extension, (515) 294-1168, phw@iastate.edu
Jean McGuire, Continuing Education and Communication Services, (515) 294-7033,
jmcguire@iastate.edu
Tri-State Forestry Conference Scheduled
AMES, Iowa -- Forest landowners and managers from northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northeast Illinois are invited to attend the Annual Tri-State Forest Steward Conference on Saturday, March 8 at the Sinsinawa Mound Center in Sinsinawa,Wis. This conference is one of the largest of its type in the country.
"People are recognizing that woodlands are becoming more valuable for many reasons and products," says Paul H. Wray, extension forester, Iowa State University. "Woodlands provide a host of benefits including aesthetics, alternative crops, wood products, wildlife habitat, woodland edibles, alternative crops and many others. This conference offers landowners six concurrent workshops to learn how to manage those benefits."
Landowners interested in growing timber as a crop will learn about management aspects to improve the woodland resource and the economic returns from products harvested from the woodland. Topics include directional felling techniques, carrying out a timber sale, oak regeneration and management, understanding forest certification, and more.
For landowners with non-timber interests, the conference includes presentations on chronic wasting disease of deer, production and marketing of shiitake mushrooms, small mammals, pond management, wildlife damage 101, and many others.
Programs of interest to both groups include presentations on why the
oaks are here, creating digital forestry maps, butterfly identification,
invasive plants, and many others.
The conference registration fee is $35 per person or two for $65 and includes
a continental breakfast and lunch. Landowners interested in attending
the conference must register by Feb. 28. The conference brochure contains
a registration form and is available at county Extension offices, Natural
Resource and Conservation Service offices, Department of Natural Resources
forester's offices or by writing or calling Paul H. Wray, extension forester,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, phone (515) 294-1168 or e-mail
at phw@iastate.edu. The brochure
is also available at: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/departments/forestry/ext/fep.html.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Services and the Departments of Natural Resources in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin; the Departments of Forestry at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the University of Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, and the Natural Resource and Conservation Services of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Extension programs are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.