Listed below are some really great upcoming Forestry programs available to you in 2009, with dates,
locations and fees shown for your convenience. Additional Programs will be added as the information becomes available.
Upcoming Forestry/Natural
Resources programs sponsored by OSU Extension and the Jackson/Josephine Small Woodlands Association.
Southern Oregon's Forest Legacy Trees- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 7 PM- OSU Ext., 569 Hanley Rd, C. Pt.
Large
trees are perhaps the most obvious, and are certainly among the most important attributes of older forest ecosystems.
Many groups and individuals place a high priority on protecting and retaining large trees for ecological, social, and other
reasons. However, the issue may be far more complicated than strictly preventing removal of these older “legacy”
trees.
Recent
inventory work suggests that large trees are dying at significant rates in southern Oregon in the absence of any harvest activities.
Although large dead trees retain many important ecological functions and have inherent value, their increasing abundance in
southern Oregon forests probably greatly exceeds historical levels. Most importantly, the rapidly decreasing number
of remaining large live conifers has potentially significant impacts on important ecological and late-successional
values in older forests.
This presentation will review recent data on large tree mortality in the Ashland watershed and elsewhere in region,
discuss the underlying threats to tree health, and review what can be done to improve the health and resiliency of these “legacy
trees” and the older forests ecosystems of which they are part.
Speaker: Dr. Don Goheen, an entomologist and forest
pathologist at the Southwest Oregon Forest Insect and Disease Service Center, has worked in the forests of southern Oregon
since 1976.
Listing your business and reaching buyers and sellers of NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS through the Oregon Forest Industry
Directory
Presenter: Lita Buttolph, Institute for Culture & Ecology When:
Monday, February 22, 2010, 9:30-10:30am Cost: Free RSVP: Please
email ifcae@ifcae.org to participate and to receive sign-in instructions for the webinar. Who Should Participate? Businesses
that buy, sell, process, or harvest Christmas boughs, cones, wild mushrooms, floral greens, medicinal herbs, mosses, berries,
or other products from forestlands. Small landowners interested in identifying buyers and sellers. Extension
agents that work with small to medium-sized businesses.
Database Background: The
Oregon Forest Industry Directory (OFID) is a free, on-line business directory operated and maintained by Oregon State University’s
Wood Innovation Center for businesses that buy and sell a variety of forest products and services. Working with OFID, the
Institute for Culture and Ecology has expanded the nontimber forest products section to include a diverse array of products
and services and we are now training businesses in how to participate.
What is a Webinar?
A webinar is a simple way to have a meeting online through your computer. Your computer must have audio capability
(headphones or speakers) so that you can listen to the speaker. You will be able to see the presenter's presentation,
including a visual demonstration of how the industry database works. You will be able to communicate with the webinar
presenter by typing in questions and comments. You can receive a transcript of the discussion via email to refer to
later.
Contact Max Bennett,
OSU Forestry Agent for more information. call to RSVP at: 776-7371 or by e-mail at: max.bennett@oregonstate.edu
Note: Some of the Woodland Management classes presented by OSU Extension
charge a a small fee. These classes include informational handouts and circulars that are worth the small fee charged
for the classes, on their own.
Please use the link at right
to access the wealth of information
available to you from the
Oregon Extension website!
EXTEND
YOUR KNOWLEDGE -
OSU EXTENSION
SERVICE
IS YOUR RESOURCE
FOR INFORMATION!
  
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OSWA.org
Please use
the link above
to the Oregon Small Woodlands
website, for information &
registration for their programs.
Note:
OSWA members
will receive a 20%
discount on native
trees/plants
at our Nursery!
OSU ExtensionForestry
Please use
the link above
to the Oregon
Extension
Service website, for a
wealth of information
at your fingertips!
*** ADDITIONAL
EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES:
If you have information on
educational opportunities
that you would like us to
place on this page,please
contact us and provide the
appropriate details!
Jackson/Josephine Chapters
of the Oregon Small
Woodland Association
had its annual picnic and tour
last year at Willow-Witt Ranch
(located outside of Ashland),
2007 Jackson County
Tree Farmer of the Year.
For a look at what they do,
visit their website at :
This site is being
maintained to repay,
in part, for the
educational
units of the
Master Woodland
Manager Program !
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