Integrating Wildlife and Intensive Forest Management

Day 1 Integrating Wildlife and Intensive Forest Management

8:00 am Registration, Coffee and Pastries

8:30 Introduction and Course Overview

8:40 Why Manage Pine Stands Intensively?

Intensive vs Extensive Management

Management of Forest Succession for Pine Yields and Wildlife Habitat

9:10 A Wildlife Management Primer

9:45 Break

10:15 A Wildlife Management Primer (continued)

10:45 Intensive Forest Management as a Continuum of Decisions

Site Preparation

Planting Density and Configuration

Herbaceous Weed Control

Survival

Growth

12:00 Lunch (provided)

1:00 pm Intensive Forest Management as a Continuum of Decisions

Fertilization at Planting

Fertilization during the rotation (before and after thinning)

Thinning

2:45 Break

3:15 Wildlife in Intensive Forestry

Some Considerations for within Stand Management

4:15 Herbicide Use in Forest Management

Site Preparation

Herbaceous Weed Control

Mid-Rotation Release

5:00 Adjourn

5:00-6:00 Professional Ethics for Foresters (Optional)

Integrating Wildlife and Intensive Forest Management

Day 2 Integrating Wildlife and Intensive Forest Management

8:00 am Review of Day 1, Questions

8:15 Forestry Herbicides and Wildlife: The Good, the Bad, and the Potentials

9:15 Review of Within Stand Effects on Timber and Wildlife from Intensive Forest Management Treatments

9:45 Break

10:15 Extensive Pine Management on Areas of an Intensively Managed Forest

Non-Intensive Plantations

Natural Pine Stands

11:00 The Landscape Level: Some considerations for Among Stands Management and effects on Wildlife

12:00 Lunch (provided)

1:00 Managing Hardwoods: Problems and Potentials

Mixed Pine-Hardwood Stands

Pure Hardwood Stands (Upland and Bottomland)

1:45 The Importance of Hardwoods for Wildlife

2:45 Break

3:15 Economic Scenarios: Intensive Forest Management and Wildlife Objectives

4:00 Managing Food Plots

5:00 pm Adjourn