Agenda
8:30 am - Registration and refreshments
9:00 am
- Indoor New and Emerging Insects to Watch for
- Is it Time to Thin: How to determine if your forest is overcrowded
Noon Catered lunch – Dinner by Dawn
1:00 – 3:00 pm
- Field Putting it into Practice: Field Exercise
- Using the wedge prism to measure stand basal area and number of trees per acre
- Use of stocking guides to assess degree of overcrowding
- Marking trees for removal to bring down to proper spacing and density
- Basics of pruning
3:30 pm Head home
Instructors
Joe Herring – District Forester, (Marshalltown) Iowa DNR
Robin Pruisner – State Entomologist, IDALS
Jesse Randall – Extension Forester, Iowa State University
Chuck Semler – Landowner
Directions : Morning 8:30-noon: Story City is located in the central part of Iowa about 10 miles north of Ames on I-35. If you take Exit 124 and head west toward Story City, you will pass the golf course and drive through the park. When you see the football field on your left or the swimming pool on your right, turn north on Hillcrest for about 30 yards. Turn right at the stop sign onto Story street and continue around the swimming pool for about 30 yards. You will now be on Grove Ave where the antique carousel and Fairview lodge are located. We will be having the morning meeting in Fairview lodge.
This event is sponsored by the Iowa State University Forestry Extension.
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