[Pollinator] speaker request

[ForestRuss at aol.com]

Hello pollinator list  serve:
 
I am a forester in  central West Virginia planning a training  session for 
the WV Forest Stewardship Program that will take place on May 4,  2010 in 
the woods of Calhoun  County, WV.  The  program is being underwritten by the 
WV Division of  Forestry.
 

 
At this time most  facets of the forestry profession are unaware of the 
problems facing forest  pollinators and the various ways that loss of these 
insects is going to impact  and potentially limit the practice of sustainable  
forestry.
 

 
I would like to find  out if there is a person out there that is connected 
enough to the  issue that they would be willing and interested in making a 
presentation at the  program.  The session is being held in the field at 
Crummies Creek Tree  Farm near Arnoldsburg,  WV and is expected to draw  over 
100 natural resource professionals.
 
Crummies Creek Tree  Farm has been the site of numerous training sessions 
over the past fifteen years  and it is the web portal for ecological forestry 
for Appalachian Hardwoods  for the Forest Guild.
 

 
Crummies Creek Tree  Farm has been leading the effort to stifle the spread 
of invasive plants in  West Virginia  and it is one of the first places that 
the Bipolaris fungus was identified  killing Japanese stiltgrass.
 
For more information  about Crummies Creek Tree Farm please visit the 
Forest Guild web site at _www.forestguild.org_ (http://www.forestguild.org/)  or 
just google  Crummies Creek. 
_http://www.forestguild.org/ecological_forestry/Stiltgrass_and_woodsroad_mai
ntenance.pdf_ 
(http://www.forestguild.org/ecological_forestry/Stiltgrass_and_woodsroad_maintenance.pdf) 
 

 

 

 
Sincerely,
 

 
Russ Richardson,  Certified Forester 
Crummies Creek Tree  Farm
 
PO  Box  207
 
Arnoldsburg, WV 25234
 

 
304-655-8919
 
c-304-377-3231
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