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Cancelled - Healthy Forests: Managing for Bugs, Wildlife, and Big Trees - Cancelled

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

Date: Nov 04, 2020 07:30 AM to Nov 05, 2020 01:30 PM

This course has been cancelled.

Brochure

Brochure with agenda and mail-in registration form

Objectives
Course content will focus on a well-rounded landscape-level forest management approach. Topics to be covered include:

Silviculture - species selection, site selection and preparation, weed control, etc.
Wildlife - prescribed fire for game species.
Wildland fire - economic and ecological benefits of prescribed fire, including vegetation control and regeneration.
Forest insects - southern pine beetle, engraver beetles, biocontrol cycles, and insecticide use.
Water resources - water quality, best management practices, sustainability.
Incentive programs for forest landowners, conservation practices, stewardship.

Participants will learn management techniques for healthy southeastern forests for productivity, habitat quality, and wildlife resources, while reducing forest insect and water quality impacts.

Format

This will be an online course that registrants will be able to watch live or as six separately recorded sessions. Those taking the course for Georgia registered forester credits please be advised you can only use three non-live credits for CFE renewal with the state of Georgia out of the total of twelve needed. Those who wish to take the sessions non-live will have two weeks after the course to do so.

Who Should Attend?

Foresters, extension/outreach personnel, consulting foresters, resource managers

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.

Holly Campbell is an Urban Forestry Public Service faculty and member of the Tree Health Care and Community Forestry Lab at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Dr. Jay Shelton is an Associate Professor of Fisheries at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. He specializes in water quality management. In 2018 Jay led a team of faculty, staff, and students from the University of Georgia in habitat restoration efforts on the Oconee River near Athens, Georgia. As a result of this project, the Warnell School was recognized as “Clean Water Heroes” by the Georgia Water Coalition, receiving their Clean 13 Award.

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 emphasis on wildlife habitat, wetlands, and working farm and forest lands.

Cancellations
Please notify Ingvar Elle at 706-583-0566 by October 21, 2020 if you need to cancel.