Cancelled - Healthy Forests: Managing for Bugs, Wildlife, and Big Trees - Cancelled
Flinchum's Phoenix, 650 Phoenix Road, Athens, GA
Sponsored By: Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
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.
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.
Foresters, extension/outreach personnel, consulting foresters, resource managers
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.
Continuing Education Credits
6.0 Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) hours - Category 1 (approved)
1.0 MTH Category A; 5.5 MTH Category B Continuing Legal Education (CLE) hours - (approved)
If you have any questions please contact James T. Johnson at 706-308-6396 or james.johnson26@uga.edu.