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The Ohio oodland Volume 26 • Number 3 • SUMMER 2019 WA publicAtion of the ohio tree Farm committee Journal ♦ Rare Forest Plants ♦ Timber Harvesting Considerations ♦ Preparing for Your Tree Farm Audit ALPHAALPHA NURSERIESNURSERIES Species Size Type Price per 1000 Bitternut Hickory 12-18” Seedlings $1140.00 Tulip Poplar 18-24" Seedlings $740.00 Allegheny Serviceberry 12-18" Seedlings $720.00 Black Walnut 18-24" Seedlings $730.00 Silky Dogwood 12-18" Seedlings $490.00 River Birch 18-24" Seedlings $690.00 Swamp White Oak 12-18" Seedlings $610.00 Bald Cypress 18-24" Seedlings $730.00 White Pine 8-12" Seedlings $285.00 Black Chokeberry 18-24" Seedlings $740.00 Contact us today for complete seedling list! 3737 65th St. • Holland, MI 49423 269-857-7804 • Fax 269-857-8162 • Email: [email protected] www.alphanurseries.com www.ohioforest.org/mpage/ohiotreefarmhome summer 2019 • volume 26 • number 3 The Ohio Editors Greg Smith ODNR DIVISION OF FORESTRY [email protected] oodland Dave Schatz OHIO TREE FARMER Journal Alice Glaser ODNR DIVISION OF FORESTRY W Editorial Board InsIde thIs Issue 4 David Apsley 4 Perspective from the Tree Farm OHIO STATE UNIV. EXTENSION Committee Chair by Tom Mills Mike Besonen PIXELLE 6 Calendar Tom Mills 6 OHIO TREE FARMER 6 Ohio’s Tree Farm of the Year Tour: Bob Mulligan Snowy Oak Tree Farm ODNR DIVISION OF FORESTRY Brad Perkins 8 Perspective from ODNR Forestry 10 OHIO FORESTRY ASSOCIATION by Dan Balser Joe Puperi Advanced TREE Health 10 Jake Peer, 2019 Ohio Tree Farm Cassie Ridenour Inspector of the Year by Brad Perkins OHIO TREE FARMER 11 Alan Walter 11 Timber Harvesting: Other Considerations OHIO TREE FARMER by Aaron Kash advErtising ManagEr 15 Leafing Out: Ohio’s Forests Are Home for Tom Mills OHIO TREE FARMER Numerous Rare Plants by Richard Gardner [email protected] 15 18 Focus on Forest Health: New Forest Health To learn more about becoming an Threat – Beech Leaf Disease by Tom Macy Ohio Tree Farmer, visit ohiotreefarm.org 18 or call (888) 388-7337 21 Measuring Our Sustainability by Cassie Ridenour Designed and Printed by 22 Camp Canopy 2019 Update by Brad Perkins Janis Nein Alliance Printing & Mailing Service 28 2019 Farm Science Review Featuring Forestry 2520 Atco Avenue and Conservation by Kathy Smith 21 Middletown, Ohio 45042 (800) 837-7768 30 Regional Woodland Interest Groups Updates The Ohio Woodland Journal is a 32 Connecting Kids to Nature by Sue Wintering 22 quarterly publication of the Ohio Tree Farm System. It is mailed at Experience the premier outdoor agricultural education and industry exposition. no charge to Certified Tree Farmers and at no charge for one year to all forest landowners receiving a Forest 2019 FARM Stewardship Plan. It is available SCIENCE REVIEW to all others by mailing an annual SEPT. 17–19 MOLLY CAREN AGRICULTURAL CENTER 28 subscription fee of fifteen dollars to LONDON, OH #FSR19 // fsr.osu.edu the Ohio Tree Farm Committee, On the Cover 507 Main Street, Suite 200, Zanesville, Golden-star lily (Erythronium rostratum) is an early spring bloomer Ohio 43701. growing at the northern edge of its native range in southern Ohio in the Shawnee State Forest region. It is a state-listed endangered plant species For subscriptions, school in Ohio, but found more commonly in south-central states. ODNR Chief sponsorships, and moving, Botanist Richard Gardner describes many rare woodland plant species let Us Know! (888) 388-7337 on page 15. Photo courtesy of ODNR Summer 2019 | 3 Perspective: out In the Woods Summer is in Full Swing e are busy with tree farm inspections, and speaking of which, we could always use more Tree Farm Inspectors. I would love it if each Certified Tree Farm in Ohio could Wreceive a visit every five years, as this regular contact is an important part of being a part of the system. If you are a forester and aren’t on our inspection team, please consider getting involved. Even if those you inspect are your clients, all these contacts help. Speaking of Tree Farm particularly white oak. Certification, I made a mistake. In checking on our walnut In the last issue of the OWJ, I said planting, the survival rate was something about the landowner poor, so more thinning and being able to choose whether to replanting is planned. There is a lot be a tree farmer with a focus on of honeysuckle and autumn olive recognition only or going the foliar spraying to do this fall. We’ll certification route, in hope of also review all the stands that are having that flexibility. This tweak in completed to catch anything we the system will occur on a regional missed or that has become newly or area basis, not on an individual established. This is our active basis. Ohio chose to be a certified management: keeping up with the state, with the thought that this TSI. It is great to be out in the woods. puts the state in the best position We have a busy Ohio Tree Farm for the future. However, even if Committee (OTFC) schedule. The certification doesn’t provide much OTFC Guide is completed, and in the way of increased marketing we are working on a Tree Farm dollars, it can provide recognition Inspector’s Guide. Cleanup work that you are actively sustainably on our membership list continues managing your woods. There is and we’re looking at our inspector’s pride in doing that. list. As I’ve said, we need more We have been approved for our inspectors in order to do regular next EQIP project on our tree farm. visits to tree farmers. There is a Our timber stand improvement third-party assessment to prepare (TSI) vendor and I will be working for in 2020 when 21 Certified Tree in an 18-acre hardwood stand. This Farms in Ohio will receive a visit will include deadening grapevine by the national auditors. We’ll be and invasive honeysuckle, autumn in touch with you when they are olive, and ailanthus. We want to selected in January. This visit is improve the quality of the stand intended to review the various Tree and increase the quantity of oak, Farm processes that the OTFC uses Summer 2019 | 4 Tom Mills Ohio Tree Farm Committee Chair Summer is in Full Swing and to assure that they are correct. County on Saturday, September OTFC’s Flapjacks for Lumberjacks Our August committee meeting was 21. There is a lot to do in Ashtabula adds a delicious breakfast to start the held on the Izaak Walton property County, so you and yours ought to day on Saturday and Sunday. near Wooster--Ohio’s first Certified make a weekend of it (see page 6 We have been having a lot of fun Tree Farm. This was my next to for directions). On October 6-8, the with Tree Farm and it’s due to all the the last meeting as Chair, and we Ohio Forestry Association will hold folks involved. Thank you to all for are working to set up a smooth its fabulous Paul Bunyan Show on everything that you have done. Your transition to Cassie Ridenour who the Guernsey County Fairgrounds. continued efforts to move Ohio’s will serve the next two-year term. It is a great trade show with all woodlands to becoming the best in Coming up this fall, our 2019 kinds of things to see for the wood the country are appreciated. Enjoy Tree Farmer of the Year Tour will be industry, and lots of landowner your fall! ◆ held at Paul and Joanne Mechling’s educational sessions. Again, a Snowy Oak Tree Farm in Ashtabula most enjoyable family activity. The Wild grapevine is a native species that grows well on the Mills Noble County Tree Farm! This vine grew with the tree it was attached to and had a large crown and heavy leaves that weighed down the tree branches. Grapevine provides fruit for wildlife, but the weight of the vine can break a tree apart or even bring it down. This vine is Count the rings on this grapevine often the object of timber stand improvement branch to age it like a tree. How old do control practices, which a forester can provide to you think the main vine was? you with control tips. In a large woods, you may miss a vine or two that will feed your wildlife! Summer 2019 | 5 Calendar AuguSt 2019 9 A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series** Hocking Hemlocks and Night Sounds 16 Wildlife in Your Woods Ohio State U-Mansfield https://woodlandstewards.osu.edu/events September 2019 13 A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series** Timber Harvesting: things to consider 14 Presentations/Displays/Exhibitors: A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series** Family Day in the Woods (Free) • Red oak regeneration • Over 140,000 trees planted, representing 17-19 Farm Science Review 21 species London (details on page 28) http://fsr.osu.edu/gwynne-conservation-area • Maple tubing/sap production 21 • Wetland construction/WRP Ohio Tree Farm of the Year Tour Snowy Oak Tree Farm • Bridge construction Ashtabula County • Drone demonstration (614) 309-6096 (details on page 6) • Walking tour with Dr. James Bissell of the OctOber 2019 Cleveland Museum of National History 4-6 • Kids activities Paul Bunyan Show www.ohioforest.org • Various conservation organization displays (details on page 33) • Invasive plant control 11 A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series** Woodland and Wildlife Research 26 Hocking State Forest Fall Color Tour (740) 385-4402 NOvember 2019 Make a weekend of it! 8 A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series** Come visit Ashtabula County, Winter Tree Identification Ohio’s best perch, walleye, and **All A Day in the Woods 2nd Friday Series steelhead fishing.
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