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Saturday, September 18, 1:00-2:15pm EDT
Orion Magazine recently released Old Growth, an anthology of essays and poems about the lives of trees. To celebrate the release of the book, Robin Wall Kimmerer will hold a public discussion with Robert Macfarlane and David Haskell. These authors bring a unique perspective on the legacy of trees in deep time, which they explore in their recent books Braiding Sweetgrass, Underland, and The Song of Trees respectively. Together, they will discuss the idea of the personhood of trees, root communities, and the ways in which humans mighty foster the growth of our canopy. Register Now! An Overview of Federal and State Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easement (PACE) Programs9/8/2021
The National Agricultural Law Center's next free webinar, "An Overview of Federal and State Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easement (PACE) Programs," will be held on Wednesday, September 15th at 12 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. CDT.
The presenter for this webinar is Ross H. Pifer, a Clinical Professor of Law at Penn State Law. He also serves as Director of the Center for Agricultural and Shale Law and Director of the Rural Economic Development Clinic. Pifer will provide an overview of these programs and discuss legal issues raised by their implementation. For more information or to register for this webinar, click https://nationalaglawcenter.org/webinars/pace/. If you have any questions regarding our webinar series, please feel free to contact Will Clark by phone at (479) 899-2673 or at [email protected]. On Sept. 13, University of Kentucky Forest Health Extension and partners will have a free three-hour online training class over Zoom featuring speakers who will discuss various aspects of laurel wilt disease such as its spread and management. On Sept. 21, they will also host a field component in Christian County so that the public can see the disease firsthand and learn how to effectively collect samples. Laurel wilt is a newly discovered fungal disease that presents a major threat to sassafras in Kentucky. The disease was first detected in the U.S. in 2003 and in southwestern Kentucky in 2019. In Kentucky, sassafras is the only known host and the primary species at risk for infection. (Despite its name, mountain laurel is not in the laurel family and is not a potential host.) he fungus is moved by the invasive redbay ambrosia beetle. To register for the free trainings, visit http://www.tinyurl.com/LWD2021   Why Tap Walnut Trees? Walnut Sap Flow and Syrup Production
Many landowners grow walnut for timber production and/or nut production. Now perhaps there is a third reason – syrup production. Join Mike Rechlin of Future Generations University in this webinar as he introduces you to the research they are doing on using walnut as another syrup producing tree species. |