Monday, November 8, 2010
Boylston ALB Meeting
Tonight at Boylston Middle/High School Clint McFarland from the USDA and Ken Gooch from the DCR spoke about the beetle that has now been found throughout the town of Boylston, there plans for surverying the area along with cutting infested trees and replantings. After the hour long presentation there was time for questions. One of the major points stressed was the importants of not transporting host species fire wood out of the quarentine zone, this leads to the unknown spread of the beetle. Overall people seem concerned that the beetle is in the area, but it is clear the USDA and DCR have a good plan established for how to handle everything. The other good news is the overall severity of the infestation in Boylston is not as bad as parts throughout the city of Worcester.
Friday, November 5, 2010
2010 Massachusetts Tree Steward Training Program
Today Peggy and I went to the first day of the Massachusetts Tree Steward Training Program at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. The conference was presented by the Massachusetts DCR Urban & Community Forestry Program & Massachusetts Community Forestry Council. And was sponsored by: The USDA Forest Service and The Massachusetts Tree Wardens & Foresters Association.
We learned a variety of different things. We started the day with tree identification, then had a quick introduction to the working forest initiative, tree response to pruning, and then after lunch we learned about utilizing tree inventories and iTree. Then we finished the day with a look at Worcester as a case study.
The best part of the day was learning about utilizing tree inventories. We were introduced to google fusion tables. This is going to be a great resource for use to look at where all of our trees, keep records of all our tree health and create maps of where our trees are.
9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:30 Welcome and Overview
(Eric Seaborn & Alan Snow)
9:45 Tree Identification Outside
(Joe Perry)
10:45 Introduction to the Working
Forest Initiative (Douglas
Hutcheson & Michael
Downey)
11:30 Trees Response to Pruning
Out Doors (Brian Kane)
12:30 LUNCH, provided
1:30 Utilizing Tree Inventories
(Mike Olkin)
2:15 Break
2:30 Introduction to iTree Tools
(David Bloniarz)
3:30 Looking at Community
Trees, Worcester a Case
Study (Eric Seaborn)
We learned a variety of different things. We started the day with tree identification, then had a quick introduction to the working forest initiative, tree response to pruning, and then after lunch we learned about utilizing tree inventories and iTree. Then we finished the day with a look at Worcester as a case study.
The best part of the day was learning about utilizing tree inventories. We were introduced to google fusion tables. This is going to be a great resource for use to look at where all of our trees, keep records of all our tree health and create maps of where our trees are.
9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:30 Welcome and Overview
(Eric Seaborn & Alan Snow)
9:45 Tree Identification Outside
(Joe Perry)
10:45 Introduction to the Working
Forest Initiative (Douglas
Hutcheson & Michael
Downey)
11:30 Trees Response to Pruning
Out Doors (Brian Kane)
12:30 LUNCH, provided
1:30 Utilizing Tree Inventories
(Mike Olkin)
2:15 Break
2:30 Introduction to iTree Tools
(David Bloniarz)
3:30 Looking at Community
Trees, Worcester a Case
Study (Eric Seaborn)
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