Department of Forestry

1. Department of Forestry Current Issues and Focus

2. Department of Forestry Research/Teaching 10 Faculty 1 Specialist Extension 4 Faculty 5 Associates 2 Open Positions Chair Search Underway

3. Contacts – 437,429 113,826 direct Acres – 425,000 5,350 invasive 257,383 logging 325,700 improvement 78,600 wildlife habitat Dollars - $299.2 million 182 million – timber 111 million – lumber drying 733,000 – ind. assistance 365,000 - landowner education 650,000 – for timber stand improvement/invasive species control 2.1 billion to rural economies from direct contributions and processing of timber and wood products Department of Forestry2008/2009 Impacts

4. Research Focus in 2009 • Invasive Species • Best Management Practices Water Quality • Wildlife Management and Conservation • Forest Fire Dynamics and Effects • Surface Mine Reforestation • Carbon Sequestration and Credits • Biomass/Biofuels

5. Critical Extension Focus • Invasive Species Control • Timber Marketing in Tough Climates • Ice Damage • Emerald Ash Borer • Certified Forest and Wood Production • Carbon Credits • Sustainable Forest Management

6. Publications Emerald Ash Borer Ice Damage Timber Theft Kentucky Woodlands Magazine www.ukforestry.org Programs Woodland Owner Short Course Fall Evening Webinar Series Logger Training You Tube Channel Timber Marketing Workshops 2009 Extension

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11. ICE DAMAGE

14. ICE DAMAGE Publications for Landowners • Safety in the Woods • Timber Salvage Decisions • Managing Woodland Damage and Health

17. EQIP PAYMENTS • Working with NRCS to establish woods road and trail clearing payments

18. Emerald Ash Borer

19. Emerald Ash Borer

20. Emerald Ash Borer Publications • Cutting and Shipping Logs • Shipping Lumber and Ash Products • Treating Lumber, Firewood, Logs, and Mill Residuals • General Industry Information

21. Invasive Species • Publications – Invasive Hit List

22. Invasive Species • EQIP Payments – Invasive Removal of Invasive Shrubs

23. Research Provided Effective Treatments Control Costs – necessary to establish payments Extension Developed Prescription Trained Technical Providers Invasive Species

24. 2009 Resulted in • 122 landowners • $781,000 in payments • 6,000 acres treated

25. 2010 practice payments for invasive vines, grasses, weeds

26. Biomass/Biofuels RESEARCH - 2 projects • Collaborative with US Forest Service • Logging Residues • Biomass tons per acre • Cost of biomass removal (harvesting) • Disturbance created • Determining what is feasible to remove and what it would be worth

27. Biomass/Biofuels RESEARCH • Determining Unintended Consequences of Biomass Harvesting in the Central Hardwood Region

28. Biomass/Biofuels EXTENSION • Biomass Factsheets and Magazine Articles • Biomass Harvest Guidelines • Industry Support – Loggers and Biomass Users (Co-Fire with Coal and Forest and Aligned Industries)

29. On-Going Programs Water Quality – Logging and Surface Mine Reforestation

30. On-Going Programs

31. On-Going Programs Kentucky Master Logger www.masterlogger.com

33. New Programs Certified Master Logger Program Certifies the performance of logging firms – safety, fairness, protecting woodlands

34. www.certifiedmasterlogger.org

36. New Programs Certified wood • Cost/benefits of developing certified woodlands Carbon sequestration • payments for landowners from woodlands left to grow and from long-lived wood products

37. Questions