18 Pleasant Street
Colebrook NH
New Hampshire Professional Loggers Program will hold a Fundamentals of Forestry workshop at the Colebrook Fire Station on May 12th from 8 am to 3 pm.
This workshop will give loggers a better understanding of forest management and appropriate applications of silviculture.
Course content includes discussion/powerpoints on historical events, current status of New Hampshire forests, Silvicultural principles of New England, Forest types, landowner goals and objectives, tree growth/maturity/vigor, forest regeneration, wildlife habitat, harvesting systems, and loggers function in silviculture.
Field sessions will focus on log scaling, grades, and utilization at a sawmill.
Field Sessions will include:
Log scaling demonstration.
Log product selection – observation of log defects and prioritizing the most profitable log product.
Silvicultural field walk, discussion of management objectives, BMPS, and wildlife habitat.
Instructors for this program are:
Jim Frohn, UNH Cooperative Extension
Wendy Scribner, UNH Cooperative Extension
Cost of this training is $45 for NHTOA members, $90 for non-members.
To sign up for this workshop go to Fundamentals of Forestry – Colebrook NH (nhtoa.org)