In this issue...
AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's (DACF) Maine Forest Service (MFS) is providing assistance for local governments, municipalities, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and private family woodland owners interested in obtaining Invasive Plant Control Practice Plans (IPCPP) for their woods. The invasive plant management program is administered by the MFS and the Maine Natural Areas Program (MNAP).
Funded by a Landscape Scale Restoration Program grant from the USDA Forest Service, financial incentives for IPCPPs are available to public and private woodland owners with ten to one thousand wooded acres in Maine. The program will reimburse up to 50% of the cost based on the number of acres. An average small woodlot may receive up to $500 maximum incentive; larger lots will have larger maximum incentive amounts. The IPCPP provides woodland owners with maps and treatment recommendations for invasive plants. Funds for treatment of invasive plants is also available, on a competitive basis, for those lands with an approved IPCPP.
Location: Moulton's Mill Preserve, ME-139, Unity, ME, USA
Host: Sebasticook Regional Land Trust & Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District
Join Sebasticook Regional Land Trust and Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District to learn about invasive plants, how they spread, and how to manage them to reduce their impacts on the health of the diverse natural habitats found in the Sebasticook River watershed.
Location: MOFGA Education Center, Unity, ME
Host: Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Join other, interested individuals in a visit to MOFGA’s climate adaptation forestry research site with Aleta McKeage and learn about the trees being planted to study their potential for growing in Maine as the climate warms. Participants will have a chance to plant new trees and shrubs for the research project.
A walk through the Unity Woodlot discussing the MOFGA Forest Management Plan will be followed by lunch. Consulting forester Maren Granstrom will use examples from the plan to discuss managing woods to build resilience and other considerations for working within a changing climate.
In the afternoon, Jack Kertesz, MOFGA’s Landscape Coordinator, will take participants to look at some of the ongoing efforts to grow woody plant nursery stock on the grounds, pointing out both successes and failures as the tour moves to the South orchard. This will be followed by discussing a novel planting technique that promotes highly developed root systems, (a gravel bed), and a look at the results of using an air pruning bed that was installed last year to grow grafted apple trees. If there is time, interested individuals may be able to tour parts of the grounds to visit some of the less common trees and shrubs that have been planted.
Please bring weather and woods appropriate clothes and shoes (muck boots or hiking boots may be best!), water, personal snacks, and anything needed to be comfortable walking through the woods – on and off trail. This field day will involve uneven terrain and navigating woody plants and material.
Registration is required. For more information or questions, please contact meberly@mofga.org.
Host: Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Associations
Dr. Jay Wason and two of his current graduate students, Laura Pinover and Emily MacDonald, will discuss how their recent and ongoing research efforts are helping us understand how forest tree regeneration responds to extreme climate conditions and how that relates to assisted migration in Maine.
Snacks and hot beverages will be provided. For more information, please contact meberly@mofga.org.
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