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Saturday Jul 11
• MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND PICNIC
12:00pm-4:00pm Ken & Jane Cogen's
234 White Hollow RD.
Crosby, PA
Officers
Forestry Links
President:
Larry Schultz
Vice President:
John Snyder
Advisor:
Tim Pierson PhD
Treasurer:
Marie Petrick
Secretary:
Verda Weder Knowlton
Board, McKean County:
Rick Smith
Board, Cameron County:
Dave Lombardo
Board, Potter County:
Ken Comstock
Board, Elk County:
Linda Pontzer
Service Forester McKean, Potter:
Stan Hess
Service Forester Elk, Cameron:
Toby Herzing
Web Service:
Walt Petrick
North Central Forest Landowners Association
(McKean, Potter, Elk and Cameron Cos.)
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This is accomplished by sponsoring educational seminars, woodswalks on member's woodlands emphasizing different aspects of best practice forest management, regular business meetings and social events to encourage interactions between association members.
The NCFLA has a close association with Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry and Penn State Cooperative Extension. A Pennsylvania State DCNR service Forester and a Penn State forestry advisor are an integral, functioning part of the NCFLA who provide guidance, advice, organization, contact with the broader forest community and schedule regular classes and seminars on forestry topics of interest.
Members of this organization experience the excitement of expanding their forestry knowledge and skills, a sense of companionship with people of similar interests, satisfaction of promoting the health of Penn's woods and fun.
Education
Learning about Oak regeneration at the Dave Errick Woods Walk.
Forest Maintainence
Timber salvage operation after 2003 blowdown
Forest Managment
Tree measurement and forest health assessment.
Enjoying the forest environment
Annual Picnic
To date, eastern Mckean county and much of Potter are experiencing extensive defoliation in sugar maple and oak stands from the forest tent caterpillar. It is also causing defoliation of shade trees, especially on oak trees (pin and red). The forest tent caterpillar is easily confused with the eastern tent caterpillar which makes the tents you see everwhere, especially the cherry along roads and forest/field edges. It is also fond of apple trees, flowering crab apples and other ornamentals. Often, both species are found in the same area or on the same trees. Healthy defoliated trees will re-leaf after one defoliation. Successive defoliation increase the mortality rate.
For more information on this subject, click on the 'DCNR Forestry Health Site' in the 'Forestry Links' section to the upper left of this message.
This link contains background information on the caterpillars, how they affect different tree species, how to determine if you have a serious problem and what, depending on your circumstances, you can do about the problem. In addition to the information contained in this website, this website contains links to other sources of information.
Extensive frost damage has also occured especially on oaks and ash. Where both defoliation and frost occur on the same tree, mortality may occur if the tree does not re-leaf.
Our McKean/Potter service forester, Stan Hess, is heavily involved in this situation. If you have any further questions after you read the information on the above website, Stan Hess can be reached at 814-274-3616. For Elk and Cameron county residents, Toby Herzing's phone number is 814-486-3353.
This website contains information and schedules for the purpose of enhancing communication and information exchange between members of the NCFLA and other woodland owners associations.
- To view the upcoming events, month to month, for the year, click the "Click here for full calendar" phrase in the left panel below the calander graphic. While in the calendar, click on the name of the meeting place for a map showing the location of the event.
- To send an e-mail message to our organization, click here..
- To access other pages on this website, please click on the desired title, top left, under the logo on the left column.
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