The 14th annual Pennsylvania Community Forestry Conference will be held on September 27-28 at the Penn State Great Valley Warren V. Musser Auditorium in Malvern.

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Urban and Community Forestry Council.

Day one of the conference features seminars and presentations on:

Bare Root Trees: Successes in Community Collaborations, Interactive Stormwater Management: Modeling Green BMPs into Site Design, Pennsylvania Pest Problems and Solutions, Assessing Storm Damage to Urban Forests: Timely, Accurate and Low-cost

Measurement and Reporting Tools, Assessing Urban Forests and Its Integration with Environmental Regulations, Trees as an Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice, New Tools for Risk Assessment, Inventory and Analysis – An Overview, Teaching Tree Pruning: Review of a New USDA Forest Service/ Penn State CD

The second day features a welcome address by DCNR Secretary Michael DiBerardinis, followed by sessions on: Marketing – How to Compete in Today’s Marketplace . . . And Win, An Open Space Plan For Southeastern Pennsylvania, Ecological Restoration and Design, Getting to Yes: Testimonials of Successful People and Organizations, Transforming Abandoned Land – The Philadelphia Story, Pittsburgh’s Shade Tree Program, Diana Ames, Pittsburgh Tree Commission

More registration information Julianne Schieffer, Extension Urban Forester, Penn State School of Forest Resources, Collegeville, at 610-489-4315 or send e-mail to jxs51@psu.edu .

8/26/2005