If you’d like to know more about how to sustainably manage a woodlot, the Westmoreland Conservation District “Forestry II” workshop on March 31 can give you some good, practical insights.

Led by District Forester Tony Quadro, the morning-long event will provide information on basic woodlot ecology, silviculture, measurement and timber-volume determination, stand development and forest history, forest succession, tolerance, crown position, relative stand density, and types of cutting.

The workshop begins with registration at 8:30 a.m., will take place both indoors – at the District’s headquarters on Donohoe Road in Hempfield Township, which features a variety of local wood in its construction – and outdoors in the adjacent, natural wooded area of Ann Rudd Saxman Nature Park. The workshop will conclude by noon.

The cost is $5, and advance registration is required.

For more information, contact the Conservation District at 724-837-5271 or send emails to: leanne@wcdpa.com .

2/23/2007