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LSU AgCenter schedules 10 field days
• Baton Rouge
The LSU AgCenter has scheduled 10 field days at
off-campus research stations during 2013, according to
John Russin, vice chancellor and director of the
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.
Dates and locations are as follows:
* March
9, Spring
Acadiana Beef Cattle Producers Field Day at the Iberia
Research Station, Jeanerette.
* April
5,
Southeast Research Station Field Day, Franklinton.
* April
17, Wheat
Field Day at the Macon Ridge Research Station, Winnsboro.
* May
3, Pecan
Research and Extension Station Field Day, Shreveport.
* June
15,
Garden Fest at the Botanic Gardens at Burden, Baton
Rouge.
* June
19,
Northeast Research Station Field Day, St. Joseph.
* June
26, Rice
Research Station Field Day, Crowley.
* July
17, Sugar
Research Station Field Day, St. Gabriel.
* July
18, Dean
Lee Research and Extension Center Field Day, Alexandria.
* Oct.
10,
Hammond Research Station Field Day, Hammond.
Details on times and topics covered will be available
closer to the dates.
www.lsuagcenter.com/
Garden show
May 4, Houma\ The TARC Garden and Market
Festival in Houma will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
the TARC-Houma Airbase. The event will feature speakers;
educational displays; plant, lawn and garden vendors;
live entertainment; concessions and the Ask the Experts
booth with LSU horticulture specialists.
Admission is $3 at the gate, and children under five
enter free. More information about the spring garden and
market festival is available from Barton Joffrion at
985-873-6495.
Four-State Forestry Conference
Ouachita Mountains RC&D
joins the Magnolia Timberland Conference in hosting the
Four-State Forestry Conference on April 26 and 27 with expanded venue at the new
Hilton Texarkana Convention Center in Texarkana, Texas.
Topics include international, national and local
concurrent sessions.
Presenters include Dennis Neilson with DANA, Rotorua, New
Zealand, world renowned for expertise and publications in
international timberland markets and investments, Ian
Turpin with LBJ Family Wealth Advisors, Austin, Texas,
specialized in asset transfers between generations, Dr.
Phil Dougherty with Progressive Forestry, proven research
in seedling genetics, Dr. Matt Pelkki with University of
Arkansas at Monticello, intensive research on financial
return in plantation forestry, Dr. Jim Guldin with United
States Forest Service, Hot Springs, Arkansas, long term
research in southern natural pine silviculture, and Dr.
Linda Wang with United States Forest Service, specialized
in forestry taxation.
Featured local landowner presenters are Dr. David Rankin,
President of Southern Arkansas University, Toni, wife,
and children Curt, John and Beth Anne, sharing their
expanding forestry investment in Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas and intensive pine plantation practices with family
ownership spanning 100 years. Featured also in
pre-conference timberland tour on April 25th are Jim and
Joyce May with several thousand contiguous acres along
the Little Missouri River in loblolly plantations,
planted hardwood and natura hardwood. Jim also
intensively manages for recreational hunting with year
round food plots and extensive privately maintained
roads, and banquet presenter Discovery Channel's very own
American Logger Eldon Pelletier.
New this year is special session "Using Google Earth
in Land Management" with Teddy Reynolds and Colleen
Morphew which includes how to use Google Earth with land,
timber, recreation, hunting leases, roads and all real
estate management including how to integrate with a smart
phone.
Conference lodging is at the new Hilton Garden adjoining
the new Texarkana Convention Center. Reservations should
be made directly at the Hilton Garden (903) 792-1065
(request conference rate).
For information, contact Ouachita Mountains Resource
Conservation and Development Council (RC&D), at (918)
423-2479 or email omrcd@att.net .
Garden tour
A tour of three area
gardens will be held in Ruston Saturday, April 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.,
sponsored by The Ruston Garden Club.
Residential gardens will be featured, including the 2005
Southern Living Idea Home. Vendors with handcrafted
garden art and accessories and a plant sale hosted by the
North Central Louisiana Master Gardeners will be added
attractions. Cost is $10 for all three gardens.
Tickets will be available at each garden the day of the
tour. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Ruston
Lincoln Parish Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2111
North Trenton; Twin Oaks Nursery 630 East Georgia Street;
and Townsend House Gifts, 410 North Bonner Street. For
more information, call (318) 243-5644 or email rustongardenclub@gmail.com
Tree Farm Tour
Lufkin TX
W. D. McAdams Co., whose partners are D'Anne Crews and
her daughters, Kay and Kelly, in partnership with the
Texas Forestry Association, will host a field tour on
their Tree Farm in Walker County on Saturday, April 27, 2013.
The 1,200-acre Tree Farm is located on Hwy 75 and FM 2989
north of Huntsville. It was acquired by W. D. McAdams,
Mrs. Crews' father, in the early 1940's. The land
consists of mixed native pine and hardwood trees, as well
as young plantations making it a continual working Tree
Farm. It has been under a written forest management plan
since 1973. The primary objectives for the land are
timber production, asset appreciation and enhancement
through sound conservation practices.
Each year, landowners, natural resource managers and
conservationists gather at the year's Outstanding Tree
Farm to celebrate forest stewardship, take part in
educational workshops and recognize individuals for
promoting and practicing good forestry.
This year's event will include a woods tour where
speakers will address the following management
techniques: Fire and drought recovery, site prep, and
replanting with cost-shares, prescribed burning, and
timber economics.
The keynote speaker during lunch will be Mac Woodward,
Mayor and Director of the Sam Houston Museum in
Huntsville.
Registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the event will
end after lunch. Transportation to the Tree Farm will be
provided. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes and
clothing suitable for outdoors. The address is 2905
Highway 75 North, Huntsville, Texas.
The field day and lunch are FREE, but we do ask that you
RSVP by contacting Texas Forestry Association at (936)
632-TREE or by leaving your name, address, telephone
nnumber and the number of people attending on voicemail
at 1-866-TXTREES, or email tfa@texasforestry.org . Continuing education
opportunities for loggers and foresters will be offered
for this event.
Summer Arts Camp
The North Central Louisiana Arts Council's
annual Summer Arts Camp is scheduled for Jackson Parish July 15-19.
This five day camp will be held at United Methodist
Church, 402 Fourth Street in Jonesboro, from 9 a.m. to
noon. The interactive, multidisciplinary camp explores
2D, 3D and Drama, and is for students entering 2nd-7th
grades. Tuition for the week is $60 when registering and
paying before May 1; $65 after May 1.
Camp fee includes supplies and snacks. Space is limited,
so parents are urged to register child early.
NCLAC has been offering Summer Arts Camps in the region
for 16 years. Those interested may register by phone at
255-1450, or by downloading a registration form at
nclac.wordpress.com, or nclarts.org. Forms and checks
should be mailed to NCLAC, PO Box 911 Ruston, LA 71273.
NCLAC is supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana
State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the
Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Louisiana Natural Resources Symposium
The Louisiana State
University School of Renewable Natural Resources will
host the 4th Louisiana Natural Resources Symposium on August 1-2, 2013 at the Lod Cook Conference Center
on the LSU Campus.
The theme of 2013 symposium will be impacts of human and
natural disasters on forested and wetland ecosystems and
wildlife. The symposium is the premiere natural resources
outreach event of the LSU School of Renewable Natural
Resources. The 2013 symposium will feature presentations
from leading international experts covering contemporary
issues related to controlled burns and wildfires,
hurricanes, and forest management impacts on wildlife
populations and species diversity.
Speakers will also address the impacts of Hurricane Isaac
on Louisiana wildlife, fires on natural ecosystems, the
role of fire in longleaf pine regeneration, the
relationship between hurricanes and fires in coastal
forests, socio-economic risk of wildfire damage, and
other topics. The target audience includes land managers,
foresters, land owners, academicians, and those
interested in this important issue. A comprehensive and
professional color proceedings will be available to all
registrants. Please visit www.rnr.lsu.edu/lnrs for more information and to
register.