Forestry Club Meeting - February 26, 2014

Even with the meeting starting at 8:00 A.M., the meeting was quite a success.  We talked about many things that the Forestry Club will do this semester.

-The vice-president position needed to be filled.  At this meeting, Alex Storm was nominated, and voted on as vice-president.

-We still need to do the annual Oak Road cleanup.  We decide to discuss this at the next meeting, after spring break.  There cannot be any snow to do the cleanup.

-We would like to plant trees by the stream that runs though campus.  We decided that they should be native plants.  Possible dates are Arbor Day (April 25) or Earth Day (April 22).  More details will be discussed at the next meeting.

-This for all students available after graduation.  TWEP and Pheasants Forever would like to have the Forestry Club have a demo day in Mercersburg.  We would use and teach people how to use basic measuring tools like d-tapes and Biltmore sticks.  This would be on Saturday, May 17.  More information will be available to all who are interested.

-The South Mountain Speaker series will have the Pennsylvania Forest Association speak in the auditorium on March 27, beginning at 7:00 P.M.  There will be several speakers, and the theme will be "Joseph Rothrock:  Past and Present Pennsylvania's Woods."  Please try to attend.

-Alex Storm, Ethan Mansfield, Coby Salmon, Ben Stephy, and Aaron Lewis attended the SAF meeting in Williamsport.  They each discussed some of the things that they learned from the speakers at the meeting.  This included emerald ash borer, hemlock wooly adelgid, and the effect of Marcellus shale drilling.

Thank you to all who came to the meeting.  The next meeting is scheduled for March 19 at 8:00 A.M. in Wiestling. 

-Aaron Lewis

Come to the Food Security Strategies for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia Preentation

The Forestry Club is sponsoring a presentation by Jennie Diehl, a Mont Alto alum and horticulture student at Penn State on her recent trip to Thailand and Cambodia.

It will be on Saturday, February 15 at 11AM in the General Studies Auditorium.
In developing nations issues of food security and farming are very strongly linked to forestry and conservation.

Refreshments will be served after the presentation. Check out the flyer.

Previous Forestry Club Meeting

There are some upcoming events with Forestry Club in the next couple of months. 

• October 19 is Arboretum Cleanup Day.  Please bring gloves to help with this. 
• We will be hiking Pole Steeple Trail at Pine Grove Furnace on November 2.  Pine Grove Furnace is about a half hour bus ride away.  There could be camping that night, too.
• On November 7, the Keystone Chapter of the Society of American Foresters will be here in Mont Alto.  We are to meet with them at 7 in the auditorium for a presentation by Art Gober.
• The annual Oak Road cleanup by the Forestry Club will be on November 12.  We are to walk along the road and pick up the trash, so it is very important for you to bring gloves.

Please try to come to these events.

Aaron

Forestry Students at the Academic Festival 2013

Maddie Erickson and Alex Seeley mapped deer exclosures in state forests. 

Jarrid Willette and Justin Vinglas studied the natural resources and developed a management plan for Jarrid's family's property.

Tosh Rung did two projects: soil mapping of an arboretum grove on campus and analyzing hemlock woolly adelgid  treatments in Caledonia State Park.

Joshua Brenneman reported on the history of tree specimens in the campus arboretum.

Forestry Club Meeting

April 2, 2013

Even though the semester is coming to a close, we are still trying to stay active.

Wednesday, April 10th South Mountain Speakers are coming to talk about rhyolite present in the local area.
On Sunday, April 21st from 2-4 PM we will be doing a Earth Day clean-up on campus.

Forestry Club Secretary,
Ethan Mansfield

2012 Alum, Nate Shank, returns from Appalachian Trail Hike

Nate Shank is shown with one of his pairs of worn out hiking shoes from his recent Appalachian Trail hike. Soon after graduating last May, Nate started from Mount Katahdin on a southward hike of the trail. He described his trip while showing slides in the GS Auditorium last Tuesday (3/26). Not counting a few breaks, Nate finished the trip in four months, a great time. We really enjoyed his tales of the trail!

 

Shriner's Knob Tree Tube Removal

The Penn State Mont Alto Forestry Club helped removed tree tubes at a planting site (Shriner's Knob) in the Michaux State Forest. At this site the tubes were more dispersed than the site we visited last year. The views form the top of this hill were fantastic. It would be great to come back on a more sunny day!