Woodswise Wire
Wednesday,
March 25
8:00
a.m.-1:00 p.m., followed by optional woods walk
Wells
National Estuarine Reserve, Wells, ME
Do
you or your family own a woodland? Do you have what you need to plan and
care for your land?
This
day-long workshop is designed for women woodland owners. We’ll introduce you to
local resources and knowledge that will help you set objectives, work with
forestry professionals to plan a successful harvest, and manage your land for
wildlife, recreation, and a family legacy. We invite you to bring your
questions about forest management and share your story of why your woodland is
special to you. After lunch, weather permitting, we will enjoy a walk in
the woods at the Wells Reserve.
The
cost for this workshop is $15 and includes breakfast and lunch. To find
more information and to register, please contact Amanda Mahaffey at amanda@forestguild.org or
(207)432-3701, or visit www.womenowningwoodlands.net.
Want
to learn or polish up on the basics of managing your Maine woodlot?
On
Friday May 1st spend the day with at least six forest
and soil experts actually out in the woods learning about:
- tree
species identification,
- the
influence of soils on forest plants and harvesting operations,
- and
how to make choices about which trees to cut or not.
Because most farms have woodlots, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Association’s Low Impact Forestry program (MOFGA LIF) and the Maine Forest
Service (MFS) have, over the past 3 years, developed this fast-paced
introductory series of hands-on sessions, aimed at people who are at the
beginning of their woodland management journey, but is open to anyone.
We
will meet at 9 AM at Charlie Hitchings' beautiful woodlot on Route
182 in Cherryfield. After introductions we will break up into three
groups for the morning to cycle through three learning stations. At noon
we'll gather for a lunch break (bring your own!). We will spend
the final couple of hours in groups again, then all together, actually marking
three small sections of forest as if for harvesting, based on the morning's
information. We plan to be done by 3 PM.
This
6 hour workshop is offered to everyone for free, but a recommended
donation of $10 per person will help offset the costs for travel, refreshments,
and administration.
To
help us get an idea of how many are coming please register with:
Anna
Mueller, MOFGA events coordinator, events@mofga.org, 568-4142
For more information about the event, contact:
LIF's Sam Brown sam@ddatt.org 277-4221
MFS's Sandy Walczyk at sandra.l.walczyk@maine.gov
441-4924
or Charlie Hitchings at springriverfarm@myfairpoint.net 546-9715
Taught in
Steuben, Me by experts from the
United States, Canada, and Europe
For general program information, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/natural-history-seminars.shtml
For more information, contact Marilyn Mayer: marilyn@eaglehill.us
or 207-546-2821
For information about each course below visit: http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/nhs-calendar.shtml
May
24 – May 30
Foraging for Edible Wild
Plants
Tom
Seymour
May 31 – June 6
Trees and Shrubs of Northeastern North America: Identification
& Ecology
Eric
Jones
June 7 – June 13
Plant Identification and
Herbarium Techniques
Fred
Olday
June 7 – June 13
Bogs and Other Maine Peatlands
Nancy
Slack
June 14 – June 20
Mosses: Structure, Ecology, and Identification
Susan
Williams and Jerry Jenkins
June 21 – June 27
Lichens and Lichen Ecology
David
Richardson and Mark Seaward
June 28 – July 4
Crustose Lichens:
Identification using Morphology, Anatomy, and SimpleChemistry
Irwin Brodo
June 28 – July 4
Sedges and Rushes: Identification and Ecology
Anton
Reznicek
July 12 – July 18
Moths and Butterflies: Identification, Specimen Preparation and Taxonomy
Hugh
McGuinness and Bryan Pfeiffer
July 12 – July 18
Beetles: Diversity, Identification, and Natural History
Warren
Steiner and Gary Hevel
July 19 – July 25
Grasses of Northeastern North America: Practical Identification for Field Biologists
Dennis Magee
July 19 – July 25
Native Bees as Pollinators: Diversity, Ecology, Conservation, and Habitat
Enhancement
Alison
Dibble and Frank Drummond
July 19 – July 25
Wetland Identification, Delineation and Ecology
Matthew
Schweisberg and Joseph Homer
July 26 – Aug 1
Field Botany and Plant Ecology of the Eastern Maine Coast
Jill
Weber
Aug 9 – Aug 15
Botany at the Landscape Scale
Jerry
Jenkins
Aug 16 – Aug 22
Plant Anatomy and Microtechniques
Richard
Keating and Robbin Moran
Aug 23 – Aug 29
Taxonomy and Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes
Robbin
Moran and Carl Taylor
Sept 11 – Sept 13
Making Medicine from Wild Plants
Tom
Seymour
Marilyn Mayer, Science Program
Manager
Eagle Hill Institute
PO Box 9, 59 Eagle Hill Road, Steuben, ME
04680-0009
207-546-2821
marilyn@eaglehill.us
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