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| | Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 9:28 pm - Emerald ash borer has arrived possum_patrol I was beginning to think the big hoopla about the borer was overstated. But I now have several ash trees suffering severely. Looks like a premature harvest to salvage what good timber I can get. Sad part is a lot of immature trees are getting blasted. On the upside the woodpecker population is exploding. Wonder if they can reach some sort of balance where the ash might survive.current mood: concerned (1 comment | comment on this) Friday, March 12th, 2010 8:53 am - Saving of the unique forest at the Black sea Sunday, November 4th, 2007 9:39 am - Sick of prairie-life, and want to relocate to a forest agsaunders After living 30 yrs on the prairie or greater plains region, I've decided that I no longer like this type of unstable-environment, and have fell in love w/ the forest. One small problem: there are dozens of forests across the us to relocate to. And my goal here is to find an ideal forest to relocate to if not settle in permanently. I am welcoming recommendations of certain forests for that very reason. And in your recommend please include a brief explanaition of why you'd recommend this particular forest. Thank you. (3 comments | comment on this) Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 10:05 pm - Tree seedling containers panchul I would like to find a supplier of tree seedling containers similar to Ropak Multi-Pots. However I am not a nursery, but a hobby grower, so I would like to buy just a few trays. (comment on this) Saturday, April 1st, 2006 11:31 am - 1 Year Forestry Programs aleaf Do any of you know how good 1-2 year forestry vocational programs are at community colleges? My boyfriend applied as an AA transfer to the only university in Florida that offers bachelor's degrees in Forestry, and he got rejected. I recently read about a year-long program at a community college instructing skill for employment in forestry as soon as the student is through. Do you know if getting this type of education will guarantee a job in forestry? do people who get these types of degrees usually get jobs? The community college site made it sound promising, but I just want to know if it would be the right thing for my boyfriend to do to pursue his career in forestry.I know to be approved by the SAF as a forester you need to receive a bachelor's, but does that mean that you can't get a good job in Forestry with this other education? (comment on this) Monday, June 12th, 2006 9:53 pm - Anybody awake? possum_patrol About that time of year when I do some cruising through the woods with the machete. A forester I know told me wild grape vines will eventually do in the cherry trees. So I do a cruise and cut off the grape and poison ivy vines. The five leaf ivy doesn't seem to bother much, so I leave it unmolested. The poison ivy probably doesn't hurt much, but it seemes to be too abundant and I suppose is sucking up nutrients the tree could put to better use. Besides, who like poison ivy ? Still haven't found any bonafide emerald ash borer damage. (comment on this) Monday, April 10th, 2006 10:35 pm - Doin my part. possum_patrol Gotta love this time of year. Got my boy scout troop planting trees as a fund raiser. Went to a nursery and picked up 3000 two tear old seedlings for .17 each. Plant them in peoples property for $1.00. Works good out here in the sticks, as a lot of people have 10 acre back yards, and will get them a hundred at a time. Everybody likes the spruces, firs, and pines.current mood: accomplished (comment on this) Monday, March 27th, 2006 2:12 pm - internship question 83confidential Hey everybody-I have a question. I have an internship with the Oregon Dept of Parks and REc. They sent me a contract to sign along with possible topics of interest I wanted to do. Here's the specs of the job-Assist with pre-sales ops of thinning harvests, including boundary posting, tree marking and cruising of timber in various.Assist with establishing permanent growth plots in a variety of timber types.Assist with hazard tree identification.I was thinking that wildlife management may be one thing that I would put on there. Any ideas? I'm a junior year forest management major.Thanks. (comment on this) Monday, March 13th, 2006 10:26 pm - Invitation to join Sustainable Solutions Community ecastleinthesky Hello!Sustainable Solutions Community would like to extend our invitation for you to join us as a member. As you can see our community is relatively new, we could definitely learn from one another along the way.We hope to see you soonsustainable_sos (comment on this) Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 9:15 pm - It's almost that time of year! possum_patrol Big warm front moving in along with a bunch of rain. I suspect it'll remove the frost in the ground. This should allow the nurseries to lift their seedlings early this year. Which means my troop of boy scouts can proceed with our spring fund raiser. We get fresh out of the ground seedlings and plant them in the surrounding community for a buck each. Last year we planted 2200 trees, this year we're shooting for 3000. We've done this for many years, but had to take a 4 year hiatus as the market got a bit saturated and we were having to plant a lot of leftovers in a garden. Granted we can sell them the next year for more, but they get awfully hard to dig up if they've been there for more than a single year. We resumed our efforts last year and the demand was again high. What a great way to connect the boys with nature and the community. It gives them a great deal of pride to be able to point to a row of trees and say they helped to plant them. It also helps when I point out some we planted 10 or 15 years ago and they see how big they've gotten and how they beautify the countryside. (comment on this) Sunday, February 26th, 2006 5:03 pm - My favorite tree possum_patrol Just cause it's winter doesn't mean tree huggers should hibernate. Below is a picture of my favorite tree. It's a white ash growing on the shore on a nearby lake. It has a circumference of 158" over 13 ft. Makes it's diameter 50+" (for you UK folks I think that's about 1.3 meters). It's amazing how little crown space it takes up, guess that's why it's survived so long. I've named it Barney in honor of the first settler in this area, I'm sure it was already a nice tree back in 1832 when he showed up in our little piece of the world.Anyone else have a favorite tree? (2 comments | comment on this) Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 8:27 pm - lumberjacking possum style Thursday, January 5th, 2006 10:25 am - wormy silver maple possum_patrol Any ideas to improve the commercial value of a woodlot that has a lot of silver maple with problems? I have about 50% silver maple in the woodlot. 50% of which gets diseased with some sort of vascular problem that loggers refer to as wormy. Many of my trees are multiple boles. Do I cut them back to one lead or take the whole bunch down? If I take a bunch down, what would I want to plant in thier place? The ground is wet for a good portion of the year. It has a layer of houghton muck underlain by a band of clay with nothing but sand underneath. Make a good spot for a pond. One specie that seems to be doing well is a sour gum that's not common at this latitude, but it has no real commercial value, it's just pretty. Cottonwood does well but again not a high value tree. Any thoughts? (comment on this) Friday, December 30th, 2005 9:36 pm - wet woodlands possum_patrol I'm new to the group. Got about 55 acres of mostly wet woodland that I would love to improve. The dominant species are soft maple, Black and white ash, some oak and walnut on the edges, along with elm that dies before it can mature and buttonbrush willow. Never had any forrestry courses, but I grew up in the woods. Worked for the dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology at MSU back in the early 70's after getting a BS in chemistry. So I guess I'm out of date ,but trainable. My woods is in south central Michigan where we are supposed to be in panic mode over the Emerald ash borer. I haven't found one yet, and doubt they'll be the scourge they're predicted to be. Any thoughts of species less susceptible to the vagaries of wet habitat, that might be more successful in my location? (1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 3:32 pm - Conference notice als_wonderland The Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, Michigan Turfgrass Foundation, and the Michigan Forestry and Park Association have combined their trade shows and conferences to produce one annual event. It's called the Great Lakes Trade Exposition. To be held January 9-11, 2006 at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Registration packets can be found HERE (PDF) (comment on this) Thursday, October 13th, 2005 9:34 pm - New Scientist Amazon article exedra G'day foresterino's and foresterina's. For those of you in the UK, there's an interesting and nicely long article about the situation in the Amazon in this weeks new scientist. Very upsetting really. Also, hope you're all doing well with those pretty forests. I'm now officially a graduated postgraduate forester myself! (comment on this) Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 2:00 am exedra Hello, your friendly forestry moderator here. I can't wait to finish my MSc writeup, when I have, I will put an exciting post of what I found out about impacts of forestry on the Giant Velvet Worm (Tasmanipatus barretti) in Tasmania. I will probably attempt an anecdote or two involving giant killer spiders, trees falling on my head or some such like thing. Til then, I have a query as I'm interested in people's position on the issue of coarse woody debris/CWD (ie big logs) within forests. If you were managing your own forest would you want to remove CWD for sanitation purposes or are you of the school that says to let things lie where they fall, or even of a point of view of pro-actively increasing amounts of dead wood. I'd really love to hear people's replis as this is something I'm very interested in. Do go into as much detail as you like in terms of background for your proposed actions. (4 comments | comment on this) Thursday, August 4th, 2005 7:45 am - genetics dragonzuela Wee! I just found this community this morning, and thought I would make an introductory post.In 2004 I got my bachelors in "genetics, cell & developmental biology" (or genetics if you will, or molecular biology... whatever) after working all of junior and senior year in an Arabidopsis lab. I'd never been interested in plants before, but that got me excited about them. I also realized that I'd much rather use my degree to help solve an environmental issue than join the hoards of people doing medical research. If we can't live sustainably, what's the point of curing human diseases?So right now I'm working as a technician for the USDA, in a grape genomics lab. I'm gearing up to go to grad school in 2006 though. I've realized that, when I skim over the different kinds of research that are going on, nothing gets me as excited as forest genetics. I grew up in Maine, love trees, and think it would be awesome to help preserve the forests. It seems I could use molecular genetics to help assess biodiversity of forests and hence aid in the direction of conservation efforts, or I could do forest biotechnology, making trees that grow faster with less lignin content, so that we can stick to plantation forests and leave the wild forests alone.Thus far, my list of schools where I could do this sort of thing are:Michigan TechNorth Carolina StateOregon StateUniversity of GeorgiaUC DavisThoughts? 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