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Healthy Forests: Managing for bugs, wildlife, and big trees

Flinchum's Phoenix, 650 Phoenix Road, Athens, GA 30605

Date: Oct 25, 2023 08:00 AM to Oct 26, 2023 12:15 PM

Brochure

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Purpose

Course content will center on landscape-scale forest management issues related to silviculture, wildlife management, forest health, and water quality.

Topics include:

Silvicultural tactics from site prep to final harvest
Forest insect management tactics
Forest management strategies to enhance wildlife populations and water quality
Forest taxation
Prescribed fires
Hands-on training in forest insects, water quality monitoring, and wildlife management

How one will benefit

Participants should be better equipped to manage forest stands in the Southeastern US upon completion of this course.

Who Should Attend?

This course is appropriate for land managers, foresters, extension agents, and other related professions.

Registration Fee

The course fee is $360.00, which includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and instructional materials. There is a $50.00 discount for fees paid and postmarked by October 11, 2023.

Cancellation

Please notify Dr. James Johnson at 706-308-6396 by October 18, 2023 if you need to cancel your registration for this course.

Instructors

Dr. Elizabeth McCarty is a Forest Health Extension faculty in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She specializes in insecticide use for forest pest management and environmental risk assessment.

Dr. Michel Kohl is a Wildlife Management and Extension faculty in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. His work primarily focuses on the application of GPS technology to address management and conservation questions that pertain to wildlife distributions.

Dr. James Johnson is the Continuing Education Program Director and an Outreach faculty member with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and has been a member of the UGA Deer Lab for the past 10 years, specializing in wildlife management in the Southeast.

Dr. Dan Johnson is an Associate Professor, Tree Physiology and Forest Ecology in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Dr. Jay Shelton is a Fisheries and Extension faculty at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Dr. Yanshu Li is an Associate Professor of Timber Taxation and Forest Economics at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia. Her areas of research include federal and state forest taxation, economic issues related to forest investment and management, forest products market analysis, economic benefits of forests.

Dr. David Clabo has been Assistant Professor of Silviculture Outreach with the University of Georgia (UGA) Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources since December 2018. David’s outreach focuses on relaying current scientific information to landowners, practitioners, and natural resource extension agents on a wide variety of forest management and silviculture topics.

Sharon Swagger is the State Easement Specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Georgia. She specializes in land protection with conservation easements and other financial incentives for landowners, with special emphasize on wildlife habitat, wetlands, and working farm and forest lands.