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Dates: June 2-5, 2009

Place: Winter Harbor, Maine

Northeast Forest Health Field Workshop

Program for Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Using Silviculture to Reduce Risk from Pests

        8:00 am:  Opening, Schoodic Education and Research Center (Winter Harbor)

Introductions

Program Overview

  8:30-10:00:   Background presentations for field visits

                       Spruce-budworm modeling

                       White pine silviculture
                       Controlling diseased beech 

10:00-11:00:  Travel to Donnell Pond

11:00-12:00:   Presentation on hardwood silviculture
                       Managing Beech-Dominated Stand
                       Update on hardwood pests, including Asian long-horned beetle

12:00-12:30:  Lunch at Donnell Pond

12:30-1:00:  Travel to pine stand

1:00-2:30:   White Pine Silviculture:

                    Managing density for optimum white pine growth

                    White pine challenges: managing for blister rust and weevil

2:30-3:00:  Travel to spruce-fir stand

                                 

3:00-4:00:  Spruce-fir Threats

                  Spruce budworm vulnerability and susceptibility

                  Update on balsam woolly adelgid

4:00-5:00:  Return to SERC

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Program for Thursday, June 4, 2009

Forest Health at Acadia National Park

9am  Meet at ANP Visitor Center, Introductions

9:00 to 9:30:  Orientation, park movie

9:45-10:30:  Stops along Park Loop Road near Kebo Mountain – discuss fire            management, invasive plants, and forest vital signs monitoring                    program

10:45-11:45: Presentation on Emerald Ash Borer (firewood transport by                    campers) and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA monitoring and control)

12:15-12:45:  Lunch on Park Loop Road (Thunderhole).

1:15-2:45 pm:  Jordan Pond House -  walk carriage road and discuss forest vital            signs monitoring and vista management

3:15-4:00 pm:  Park Headquarters - Ozone monitoring and dynamics, indicator            plants for detecting air pollution damage

4:15 pm:  Return to Visitor Center.

 

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Presentations

William Livingston - Introduction to Maine's Forests (PowerPoint file)

Co-sponsors

	School of Forest Resources
	Cooperative Forestry Research Unit
	Maine Forest Service
	Maine Division - Society of American Foresters

School of Forest Resources
5755 Nutting Hall
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5755
Phone (207) 581-2841 | Fax: (207) 581-2875