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SPEA Students Attend Forestry Field Day

SPEA students in E400/E555Sustainable Forestry and E460/E461 Fish and Wildlife Management will learn firsthand this Saturday, Sept. 29, about forest management from two Monroe County landowners.

The students, led by Professor Burney Fischer, will spend the day on the properties. One includes a wetland, while the other has a sawmill and kiln, as well as a biodiesel operation to provide fuel for a bulldozer used for logging and road maintenance.

A local forester, a state biologist and other foresters and natural resource professionals will help teach the students about managing the different kinds of woodland.

Tour stops include a brief overview of the property from the owner, and then tours to see extensive acres of tree planting (CRP riparian buffer, bottomland timber and habitat for upland birds conservation practices),forest stand restoration (timber stand improvement) and a constructed wetlands.

Next the class will go to the second property where lunch will be served, a portable sawmill and dry kiln will be demonstrated by Robert Woodling as well as a brief overview of the woodlands, and then a walk in an oak-hickory forest to see the results of timber harvesting, BMP implementation on woodland roads, wildlife practices such a waterholes, and small forest openings.

Special thanks go to Sponsors and Hosts:

Duke Energy Indiana Forestry and Education Foundation (IFEF) Indiana Forestry and Woodland Owner’s Association(IFWOA) Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association (IHLA) Indiana Society of American Foresters (ISAF) IU-B School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) IU-B SPEA Environmental Management Association (EMA Entmoor, Stewards - Barbara Seal & Erv Kattelman Good-Woodling Woods, Stewards - Robert Woodling & Linnea Good