Managing Forests for Health, Wildlife, and Productivity

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

7:30 – Registration

8:00 – Session I      Defining forest health; emphasizing landowner objectives for productivity, wildlife, aesthetics, nontimber forest products, etc. 
                                 (David Coyle)

8:30 – Session II     Pesticides: Environmental risks, and policy issues (Elizabeth Benton)

9:30 – Session III    Forest pests I: Southern pine beetle, Ips bark beetles, turpentine beetles, ambrosia beetles, woodborers  (David Coyle)
 
10:15 – Refreshment Break

10:30 – Session IV   Forest pests II: Management of cogongrass and other weeds                    (Elizabeth Benton)

11:30 – Session V    Forest pests III: Emerald ash borer  (David Coyle)

12:00 – Lunch

12:45 – Session VI   Fire, healthy forests, and management (Joe O’Brien)

1:45 – Session VII    Forest pests IV: Hemlock woolly adelgid, gypsy moth
(Elizabeth Benton)

2:45 – Refreshment Break

3:00 – Session VIII   Forest pests V: Laurel wilt, heterobasidion root disease, pitch canker, brown spot needle blight, pine sawflies, regeneration weevils (David Coyle)

4:15 – Session IX      Invasive species of concern to the Southeast  (David Coyle)

5:15 – Adjourn

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

7:45 – Welcome & announcements

8:00 – Session X    Managing forests for health and wildlife I: Upland Forests
(Mark McConnell)

9:00 – Session XI   Managing forests for health and wildlife II: Bottomland Forests
(Mark McConnell)

10:00 – Refreshment Break

10:15 – Session XII    Outside activity to reinforce today’s topics
(Elizabeth Benton, David Coyle and Mark McConnell) 

12:15 – Course Evaluation and Adjourn