The Rural Landowner Workshop is a regional program involving several agencies that provide educational information and outreach to landowners.  Presenters are brought in from both private and public sectors to provide participants with up-to-date information. Exhibitors from forestry related business, civic organizations and agencies will also be on hand to address landowner questions.

The opening session will be What's That Below Your Feet? - Understanding and Preserving Soils in your Forest and Woodlands with Soil Scientists, Zachary Warning and Matt Havens, with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Additional topics include: The Use of Slash Walls to Regenerate and Restore Woodlands, Growing Black Locus as a Timber Cash Crop, A Deer Impact Assessment Tool for Landowners, iSeeMammals: volunteer led mammal monitoring and camera trapping, and Pollinator in the Wood. Plus 5 invasive species sessions: Walking the Pathways of Invasion: How to Stop the Spread of Invasive Species; Practical Identification, Ecology and Management of Invasive and Interfering Shrubs and Trees; Livestock Grazing as a Strategy to Manage Invasive Plants in Forest Landscapes; What’s Bugging You? Forest Pests and Diseases that May Be Harming Your Trees; and Giant Hogweed Identification and Management Techniques.

For more information and to register, visit the CCE website at www.cce.cornell.edu/allegany or call 525-268-7644. No walk-Ins please.