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Friday, April 03, 2009 - 10:16 AM
Saturday, April 2510:00 AM – 4:00 PM Broadwell Hill Learning Center Stewart, OhioRural Action workshop being held through funding from Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF). For more information, contact Tom Redfern (tomr@ruralaction.org).
Event Description
Join us in the Beautiful forest of the Broadwell Hill
Learning Center to Learn about options for managing
your woodlands economically as well as ecologically.
Speakers include:
Chip Carroll of Woodlandwise Botanicals and
United Plant Savers. Chip will lead a field tour highlighting
medicinal herbs, discussing how they can be
grown and marketed.
Pete Woyar, Consulting Forester member of the
Ohio Forestry Cooperative, and Chairman of the
Board of Supervisors of the Athens County Soil and
Water Conservation District will discuss connections
for working woodlands that can help landowners
meet their goals.
Doug Albaugh , of Friends of the Lower Muskingum
will discuss the control of invasive plants, including
his successful methods for controlling Tree of
Heaven.
Dave Schatz, Retired Service Forester and member
of the Athens Conservancy will lead a Tree Identification
walk, and discuss methods of Timber Stand
Improvement.
Tom Redfern of Rural Action will demonstrate
propagation methods for woodland plants.
More Speakers to be Announced!
Sponsored by Rural Action through funding by the
Ohio Environmental Education Fund
Saturday
April 25th
10:00am-4:00pm
Broadwell Hill
Learning Center
22215 Mayles Ridge Rd.
Stewart, Ohio 45778
Driving Directions:
• From U.S. take 50/32 East of
Athens, turn NORTH on State
Route 329 at the Marathon
Station.
• Continue north through Guysville
and Stewart, and note the
white mile marker signs on the
right of the road.
• Turn right immediately
BEFORE mile marker 8: Mayles
Ridge Road, County Road 38.
• Continue up the small rise,
follow as road veers sharply to
the left.
• Continue up to the horizon.
Second driveway on the right.
• Green mailbox with number on
right, hidden driveway to the
right.
Turn onto the driveway immediately
before the mailbox,
and pass through the gateway.
• Follow the main graveled drive
back into the woods,
and veer left at a small rise
toward the house circle.
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