Learn land management tips through Bear Lake field tour

The function will be held at an 80-acre parcel owned by Jeff Busscher, president of Alpha Nurseries, situated at 8933 Glovers Lake Road in Bear Lake and is scheduled to run from 9:30 a.m. to midday on July 21. Members are asked to fulfill at 9:15 a.m. Pursuing the tour, a lunch and query-and-respond to session will consider spot from midday to 1 p.m.

The event has been approved for 2.5 Classification 1 Society of American Foresters continuing education and learning credits.

There is no cost to attend the area working day and lunch will be provided. Place is minimal, so intrigued functions should sign up ahead of July 15 by getting in contact with the Manistee Conservation District at 231-889-9666 or by emailing Josh Shields, forester and wildlife biologist of the Manistee and Mason-Lake conservation districts, at [email protected].

All through the industry day Shields and Busscher will discuss the subsequent aspects of habitat administration:

• The heritage of the somewhere around 80-acre parcel

• The benefits of habitat administration, management designs and operating with personal sector and general public sector professionals

• Systems these types of as the Capable Forest Plan, American Tree Farm Technique and Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Application

• Business forest management practices carried out on the parcel

• Administration of non-native invasive species on the parcel, together with beech scale, emerald ash borer, Scots pine, invasive shrubs and garlic mustard and

• Non-forested habitat administration and restoration, like the planting of trees and shrubs, native wildflowers and grasses, and wildlife foodstuff plots.