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2009 Program Year
165 volunteers throughout New York State
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2008 Program - Year Sponsors:
• USDA Forest Service,
State & Private Forestry
• Renewable Resources Extension Act
• Robert H. Wentorf, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
• NY Forest Owners Association
• NYS DEC
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
NY MFO/COVERTS
Volunteer Program
Goal:
To provide NY State forest owners with the
information and encouragement necessary to
manage their forests to improve ownership
satisfaction
Methods
Train and support a corps of certified volunteers who
work within their communities to promote forest
stewardship by:
• Conducting on-site, 1/2-day visits with
neighbor forest owners
• Collaborating with agencies and organizations
in various educational events
• Preparing articles for various media outlets
MFO Volunteer Visit
Den Tree
Annual New Volunteers Training
at Cornell’s Arnot Forest
New Volunteer Training
Workshops
Location:
Cornell University’s Arnot Teaching and Research Forest,
VanEtten, NY and the Hudson River Valley
Timing:
Four-day training (Wednesday evening through Sunday
noon) in mid-September (Arnot) and spring (Hudson)
Format:
Morning lectures, afternoon field trips, evening
discussion groups/guest presentations
Content:
Education skills, natural resources of NYS, tree
identification, wildlife management, forest soils,
sawtimber economics, boundary location, sawmill visit,
agroforestry, forest ecology, silviculture
Instructors:
MFO volunteers, DEC foresters/biologists, CU faculty,
private consultant foresters
Lecture on
“Arranging a Timber Sale”
Tree Identification Exercise
Visit to
Wagner Hardwoods Co. Sawmill
Using a Tree
Scale Stick
Silviculture Field Exercise
Refresher Workshops
Northern
Eastern
MFO Annual Report Summary
(Average Documented)
Neighbor On-site Visits:
50 volunteers responded (33% of vol’s.):
• 150 forest owner visits; total of 9,000 acres
Additional Outreach:
35 MFO volunteers reported:
• 300 outreach activities; total audience of 8,000
Interested ????
For an MFO visit contact:
• Your county Cornell Cooperative Extension Office
• Your regional DEC office
For information on becoming an MFO
volunteer contact:
• Gary Goff, Program Director
(607) 255-2824 or [email protected]
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