An Educational Series for New Hampshire Tree Farmers and people interested in learning more about woodlot care and management. Join us for a series of programs focusing on the cornerstone themes of sustainable Tree Farm management: wood, water, wildlife, and recreation!

Join Tree Farmer and Plymouth State University Ecology Professor Len Reitsma for some close encounters with birds. Len and graduate student, Meagan Bassett will mist net birds and discuss the different habitats they frequent. Len has created openings and clearings throughout his 112-acre Tree Farm to evaluate how different bird species respond to and utilize the different opening sizes. Len and Meagan will also demonstrate bird banding. This workshop is a great opportunity to see birds up close and learn about their preferred habitats, as well as to bring home ideas about how you can enhance bird habitat on your property.

This one-day workshop will focus on how to classify wetlands following the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service method for classifying wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States. The ability to classify and accurately describe wetlands is an important component when preparing reports for state and federal permit applications, wildlife habitat analysis, and wetland mitigation design. Dress appropriately for outside fieldwork. (This is part of the Wetland Delineation Certificate Program, but you do not need to enroll in the program to take this workshop.)

CEUs: Approved by the NH Joint Board of Licensure for 3 CEUs for Foresters, 1.75 CEUs for Surveyors, and 6 CEHs for Wetland & Soil Scientists

8:00 – 9:00 Registration, meet at the UNH Sawmill, 248 Mast Rd, Durham

9:00 – 10:00 Welcome and introductions, visit UNH sawmill, travel to field sites

Long Tour - 10:00 – 12:15 Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) insectary and New England cottontail habitat.

Short Tours
10:00 – 10:45 Forestry—with cows in mind?

11:15 – 12:15 Researching effective invasive species control.

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at UNH Holloway Commons—not your ordinary dining hall.

Afternoon Activity 1:45 - 3:45 A walk through College Woods

Take a variety of full-functioned, free GIS programs for a test drive! After a brief intro to the software covered in this workshop, hands-on exercises will provide a framework to learn the basics of the programs, including how to create own maps, edit GIS data and do basic processing. Paritipants are encouraged to bring their own data to use after they understand the basics of the software.

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This workshop is designed for practicing wetland scientists. You should be able to identify the ecologically important family of grasses (Poaceae) and have some experience in using technical keys. You will learn how to recognize the most common early-season wetland and upland genera and species in this large, diverse and challenging group. You will also focus on using technical keys to identify unknown grasses. Please bring a good hand lens and a technical plant manual (Gleason & Cronquist, Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Canada; Magee & Ahles, Flora of the Northeast; or Haines & Vining, Flora of Maine). You will spend part of the day in the field, weather permitting.

CEUs: Approved by the NH Joint Board of Licensure for 6 CEUs for Wetland Scientists, 2 CEUs for Foresters, 1.75 for Surveyors

 Learn GIS basics and how to use ArcGIS 10 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience or GIS useres looking for basic ArcGIS 10 experience.  Activities focus on using ArcGIS 10 to get information from GIS data layers, answer basic questions and manipulate attribute data.

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This intensive, hands-on workshop will focus on dendrology and field identification of common shrub species in New Hampshire. You’ll learn keys and characteristics of identification-leaves, fruits, twigs, bark and habitat-to apply in professional fieldwork, such as surveying, mapping, and wetland delineation. A hand lens is recommended for this workshop. Also recommended is the text, “A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs” (Peterson Field Guides Series), by G.A. Petrides. Please dress for outdoors. (WD)

CEUs: Approved by the NH Joint Board of Licensure for 1.75 CEUs for Surveyors, 6 CEUs for Wetland Scientists, 3 CEUs for Foresters, 6 CEUs for Soil Scientists

Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

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Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

An Educational Series for New Hampshire Tree Farmers and people interested in learning more about woodlot care and management. Join us for a series of programs focusing on the cornerstone themes of sustainable Tree Farm management: wood, water, wildlife, and recreation!

Are there places on your property that you like to visit? Would you like to create a map of the trails on your woodlot or locate and mark your boundaries? On June 20th we will meet at Levey Park in Alton to learn the basics of using GPS to navigate around your woodlot and to do simple mapping. This course covers the basics of GPS technology, how to collect waypoints and how to navigate to points you have collected. In this workshop we will use GPS units to collect information about these sorts of features. Wendy Scribner and Andy Fast, Field Specialists with UNH Cooperative Extension will show you the how to collect
information as well as how to navigate with GPS. Garmin GPS units will be provided. Attendance is limited to 15 people.

Steve Roberge, County Extension Forester with UNH Cooperative Extension will discuss the recent discovery of Emerald Ash Borer in Merrimack County and the implications this will have for the Monadnock Region. Steve will discuss; how to identify the beetle; how to monitor and slow its spread; its impacts on the forest; the implications of finding it on your property.

This workshop is designed for practicing wetland scientists. You will learn to recognize the sedge family (Cyperaceae) and its major genera, with an emphasis on the genera and species that are wetland indicators. You will also focus on tools for identification--understanding plant structures and terminology. Bring a good hand lens. You will spend part of the day in the field, weather permitting.

CEUs: Approved by the NH Joint Board of Licensure for 1.75 CEUs for Surveyors, 6 CEUs for Wetland Scientists, 2 CEUs for Foresters

An Educational Series for New Hampshire Tree Farmers and people interested in learning more about woodlot care and management. Join us for a series of programs focusing on the cornerstone themes of sustainable Tree Farm management: wood, water, wildlife, and recreation!

Learn how to download GPS data onto a computer and use it to create a map using Google Earth. This workshop builds on concepts from last week’s session where we collected GPS data in the field. In this session, we will use GPS data to create custom maps using Google Earth. You will also learn how to take locational information from Google Earth and send it to your GPS receiver for use in the field. Garmin GPS units and computers will be supplied. Attendance is limited to 15 people.

This fern identification workshop will be held at the Kingman Farm on route 155 in Durham. It is intended to teach natural resource professionals the skills necessary to positively identify the ferns of northeastern New England. A combination of indoor and outdoor instruction will be used to teach participants about basic fern terminology, morphology, reproduction, hybridization, and ecology. These skills will then be employed to identify ferns in the field using a fern key. Highlights include strategies and suggestions for identification within some of the more difficult fern groups, and a thorough discussion of the challenges presented by fern hybridization. During the field portion of the course participants will see many of the most common local species of ferns discussed in the lecture, and gain experience keying in situ. Participants of all experience levels are encouraged to attend. The required text is: Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada by Hallowell & Hallowell. Students are asked to purchase this text themselves from their preferred bookseller and bring it with them to the workshop.

CEUs: Approved by the NH Joint Board of Licensure for 6 CEHs for Wetland  Scientists, 1.75 CEUs for Surveyors, 3.5 CEUs for Foresters

Please join us for the 2013 Tree Farm Field Day at the Ames Road Tree Farm in Canterbury. Ned and Jean Therrien, owners of the Ames Road Forest in Canterbury, are the 2013 N.H. Outstanding Tree Farmers.

Please check back as move information will be posted at a later date!