Green Horizons

Sponsored by the Southwest Missouri RC&D and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, this workshop on April 9 is designed for landowners who want to know more about caring for and improving the profitability of resources from their land. Free lunch will be served to all who register by the deadline of March 31st.

The ABC’s of Profitable Forest Management

Saturday, April 9, 2005 (registration 8:30-9:00 a.m.)
Workshop: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Rain date (same time): April 16, 2005
Where: 3 miles east of Goodman in McDonald County, Missouri On Long Valley Ranch - C Highway

Sessions will include:

1. Name that tree - tree ID for beginners.
2. Adding value with timber stand improvement - practice your skill at selecting crop trees to manage for prfit.
3. Identifying tree maturity - improving your bottom line with the right harvest.
4. Tour a selective harvest completed in 1994.
5. Directional felling demonstration by a trained logger/land-owner.
6. Chainsaw chain maintenance short course for do-it-yourselfers. (ICE Company - Stihl dealers, Anderson, MO)
7. Government cost-share programs: profitable water quality protection along streams.
8. Planting tree seedlings for profit and enjoyment.

For more information contact: Skip Mourglia, Consulting Forester/ USDA, NRCS Forester, Southwest Missouri RC & D, at (417)-732-6485 or email skip.mourglia@mo.usda.gov.