Ephemerals and Mushrooms – Spring walk

Ephemerals and Mushrooms – Spring walk

by | May 4, 2019 | Event

Spring Walk in Dalton

Dalton, NH
Saturday, May 11, 2019
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Calling all plant and mushroom lovers! If you or your family would love to walk in beautiful woods and discover the riches of spring beneath your feet, this walk is for you! Join master naturalist Dr. Rick Van de Poll for a tour of a rich and diverse woodland in the upper Connecticut Valley region. Witness the delicate colors and fragility of rare plants, learn about the bedrock and soils that help create this rich mesic forest, and discover the fascinating world of spring fungi that attends the coming of warm weather. We hope to find squirrel corn, maidenhair fern, blue cohosh, jack-in-the-pulpit and some fungi (morels, false morels, cup fungi, early polypores).

About

Rick Van de Poll, Ph.D., is the principal of Ecosystem Management Consultants in Sandwich, NH, a company that since 1988 has offered natural resource management services throughout New England. With 40 years’ teaching experience, Dr. Van de Poll has completed natural resource inventories and management plans on over 325,000 acres in the Northeast. He is a member of the NH Plant Task Force, which surveys rare plant populations in NH, and is President of the Northeast Mycological Federation.

Sponsored by the Coos County Conservation District, NRCS and the landowners, this gathering will hopefully inspire a series of regular offerings at this 1800 acre farm and forest in Dalton.

Registration

Space is limited, please register by emailing the Coös County Conservation District at carolyn.mcquiston@nh.nacdnet.net
Directions will be provided by return email to registered participants.

Participants should be prepared to walk about a mile on woodlands trails, some of which are steep! Please come prepared with comfortable walking shoes, and dress for the weather. Rain or shine. (In case of a severe weather prediction, we will save a rain date, Sunday the 12th and be in touch with you on Friday).

The workshop and light refreshments are provided by our hosts at no charge.
Although there is no charge for this workshop, donations to support the Coös County Conservation District are always appreciated and will be accepted at the walk. The District helps coordinate and market these types of conservation projects in Coös County.

Web page of interest – Dr. Rick Van de Poll http://www.rickvandepol

DTW Mapper

by | Apr 6, 2019 | Event

Dirt to Trees to Wildlife tool

Randolph, NH​
Saturday, ​April 13, 2019
10:00am – 2:00pm

​3.5 category 1 CFE credits (3.5 contact hours) have been approved Dirt to Trees to Wildlife (DTW) is an online tool consisting of DTW Mapper and it’s companion website housing information used by DTW Mapper to create reports about an area of interest. Identifying opportunities to enhance wildlife habitats requires knowledge, skills and experience related to interactions between soils, vegetation and the wildlife that use each type of vegetation. A new online tool helps professional managers simplify the process of compiling these complex interactions.

The tool, called Dirt to Trees to Wildlife(DTW), simply requires a user to identify a piece of land by drawing it on a map. Behind the scenes, DTW identifies the soils on that land, the vegetation naturally supported by that soil, and wildlife breeding habitats supported by each vegetation type. This information is compiled in a handy report to inform management decisions.
DTW is based on decades-long work reflecting collaboration by soil scientists, foresters, researchers and wildlife biologists. It is largely funded by the U.S. Forest Service and the Randolph Community Forest.

Agenda

At this workshop you will be introduced to the DTW online tool, set up a free ArcGIS online public account, and develop a report for a tract you identify. https://dirttreeswildlife.org/

Space is limited, please register, email carolyn.mcquiston@nh.nacdnet.net

Bring your laptop with Windows 7 or 10.
A limited number of computers will be available. Request one with your registration.

The workshop & lunch is provided free, provided by the Randolph Community Forest Commission.

Donations to support the Coös County Conservation District are always appreciated and will be accepted at the door. The District helps coordinate and market these types of conservation projects in Coös County.

 

Web pages of interest

https://dirttreeswildlife.org/Dirt-toTrees-to-Wildlife

http://randolphforest.org/Randolph Community Forest

https://extension.unh.edu/topics/natural-resourcesUNH Extension, Natural Resources

Natural Resources Field Day

by | May 29, 2017 | Event

Annual Field Day for 5th Graders

The Field Day is on the third Wednesday of May every year and is hosted at CJEJ Farm in Columbia. Students alternate through seven unique outdoor stations with presentations by natural resources professionals

  • NH Fish & Game
  • Forest Management Agencies: Wagner, LandVest and Weyerhaeuser
  • UNH Extension
  • USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • Owners/Operators of CJEJ Farm
  • FFA Chapter, Canaan VT

These stations include information about –
aquatic life, wildlife, forestry, livestock,
​agriculture land, soils and farm safety.