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Got Trees? Farm Show Day 2

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Time: February 22, 2013 from 10am to 4pm
Location: Somerset Room of the Art and Home Center at the NY State Fairgrounds in Syracuse
Street: NYS Fairgrounds
City/Town: Syracuse, NY
Event Type: conference/seminar
Organized By: www.NYFOA.org
Latest Activity: Feb 10, 2013

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Landowners have a wide range of interests in their woods: peace and quiet, wildlife, wood products, recreation, future timber, and a family legacy, to name a few. Whatever your objectives, a greater understanding can help achieve a greater value from your woods.

Friday : February 22

10:00 Conservation Easements Can Protect Your Woodlot Legacy Donald Fisher – President, Pomeroy Associates, Syracuse

11:00 Coping with Insects That Destroy your Valuable Trees Kim Adams – Instructional Support Specialist, SUNY College of Env. Sci. & Forestry

1:00 Bringing Your Woodlot Back to Growing Valuable Timber Peter Smallidge – NYS Extension Forester, Cornell University

2:00 Managing Your Woodlot for Timber and Deer Gary Goff – Sr. Extension Associate, Dep’t of Natural Resources, Cornell University

3:00 A Woodlot as an Investment: Experiences and Lessons Carl Wiedemann – Retired Forester, NYS Dep't of Environmental Conservation

Each year at the NY Farm Show, free forestry programs are presented by NYFOA with Cornell Cooperative Extension, the State Department of Environmental Conservation and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, with support from others including the New York Farm Bureau, Audubon New York, and the Natural Resource Conservation Service of the USDA.

Programs are held in the Somerset Room of the Art and Home Center at the NY State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. Programs start on the hour and allow time for questions. Reservations are not needed.

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