Educational Materials & Marketing Services Extension 4-H Youth Bldg. Ames, Iowa 50011-3630 (515) 294-9915

1/26/04

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 in Wisconsin

AMES, Iowa --Forest landowners and managers from northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northwest Illinois interested in learning how to better manage their forested land are encouraged to attend the Annual Tri-State Forest Steward Conference scheduled for Saturday, March 13 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" according to Paul H. Wray, Iowa State University Extension forester. "Woodlands provide a host of benefits including aesthetics, alternative crops, wood products, wildlife habitat, woodland edibles and alternative crops. This conference offers landowners six concurrent workshops to choose from.

For landowners interested in growing timber as a crop, the conference will focus on management aspects to improve the woodland resource and the economic returns from products harvested from the woodland. Topics include minimizing impact of income taxes on the forest investment, using computer programs to analyze growth and economic returns, management of oak woodlands and management of crop trees.

For landowners with non-timber interests, the conference includes presentations shade tree care, improving stream water quality, controlling woodland invasive plants and management for neo-tropical birds.

Programs of interest to both groups include presentations on why the oaks are here, creating digital forestry maps, establishment of riparian buffers, exotic insects and woodlands, and how to classify forest sites.

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 March 5. The conference brochure includes a registration form and is available at ISU Extension county offices, Natural Resource and Conservation Service offices, Department of Natural Resources forester's offices or by writing or calling Paul H. Wray, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50010, (515) 294-1168 or e-mail at phw@iastate.edu. It 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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