Allegheny SAF Winter Training 2017: The Presentations

The Allegheny Society of American Foresters Winter Training was held at Wyomissing, PA, February 15-17, 2017. The theme was Rural and Urban Ecosystem Health in the Mid-Atlantic Region. You can download the agenda here. Training presentations can be downloaded below. 

Thursday, February 16, 2017

• Plenary Talk, Steve Koehn, Director, Cooperative Forestry, USFS State & Private Forestry
• Plenary Talk, Al Todd, Executive Director, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Morning Concurrent Sessions

Biomass Utilization in Rural and Community Forest

• Urban Wood Utilization, Ed Cesa, USDA Forest Service
• Baltimore Case Study, Mike Galvin, SavATree Consulting Group
• Wood to Energy: Biomass Utilization, Lew McCreery, USDA Forest Service

Forest Management and Fire for Oak Sustainability

• Why We Need Prescribed Fire, Pat McElhenny, The Nature Conservancy
• Prescribed Fire: Challenges in PA, Todd Breininger, PA DCNR
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Forest Mngt, Merlin Benner, Remote Intelligence, LLC

Lunch Talk, Matt Menashes, CEO, National SAF

Afternoon Concurrent Sessions 1

Integrated Forest Management

• Integrate Wildlife and Forest Management, Jeff Larkin, Indiana University of PA
• Alternative Products from Riparian Buffers, Tracy Coulter, PA Bureau of Forestry
• Large-landscape Forest Management, Ben Jones, PA Game Commission

Student Forum

• Articulating Your Value and Lessons in Leadership, Tom Davidson, Leadership Nature

Afternoon Concurrent Sessions 2

People and Communication

• Outreach for Kittatinny Ridge Preservation, Kim Murphy, Berks Nature
• Community Forest Program, Jim Bonesteel, Rensselaer Plateau Alliance

Urban Forest Data: New Applications for Communities and Managers

• Applications of Urban Tree Canopy Data, Sarah Low, USDA Forest Service
• i-Tree Landscape, Jason Henning, Davey Institute and USDA Forest Service
• Forest Restoration in an Urban Context, Curtis Helm/Tom Witmer, City of Philadelphia *

Banquet Dinner Presentation, John Goodall, Brandywine Conservancy *

Friday, February 17, 2017

Morning Concurrent Sessions

Community Forestry for Water Quality

• Stormwater Management in Lancaster, Douglas Smith, City of Lancaster
• Soil Management for Urban Trees, Susan Day, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Urban Watershed Management, Bob Adams, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society *

Forest Health/Invasive Species

• Hemlock in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Mary Ann Fajvan, USDA Forest Service
• Important Invasive Pests in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Randall Morin, USDA Forest Service
• Invasives Management with Herbicides, Todd Hagenbuch, Arborchem Products

Final Plenary, James Finley, Penn State University

* — an asterisk at the end of the line indicates a presentation edited due to file size limitations

Northern Hardwood Chapter SAF Winter Meeting 2017

 

The Northern Hardwood Chapter of SAF will host a chapter meeting at 5:30 PM on January 26, 2017 at the PA Lumber Museum (5660 US-6, Galeton, PA 16922).  Mike Messina and Eric Zenner from Penn State’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Management will be our guests for the evening. We will gather at 5:30 for a social hour, with dinner to be served at 6:30.  Following dinner, our guests will speak on silvicultural opportunities in northcentral PA (especially in the wake of Emerald Ash Borer).  The meeting will wrap up at 8:30.  Application for one CFE credit is in the works and should be available.

Dinner choices include lasagna and chicken cordon bleu.  Cost of the meal will be $15.  Payment can be made at the meeting or sent to: David Andrus, 59 Clearview Drive, Coudersport, PA 16915.  Reservations, by mail or email, are due January 20, 2017.  If responding by email you can just send a response to dandrus@generationsforestry.com with your dinner choice.  No form is required.

You are encouraged to show up early to see the museum visitor center that opened in May of 2015.  It really is a wonderful display of Pennsylvania forest history.  They have agreed to waive the use fee for the facility because SAF fits into their mission statement. They have also agreed to waive the entrance fee ($8) for anyone showing up early but will accept any donation you care to make to the museum.

Download: Meeting Notice & Registration (doc) | (pdf)