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Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) Training Workshops

• Monday, July 23, 2018, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Counties (CCE) is collaborating with the Catskill Regional Invasive Species Program (CRISP) and the Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA) to host two, single-session workshops that focus on efforts to monitor and manage native ash tree stands that have the best chance to survive the accelerating invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). Attendees will learn how to contribute to ash conservation in the Catskills and the Northern Foothills.

Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) Training Workshops will be held: Monday, 7/23, 1:00-4:00 p.m., CCE Schoharie and Otsego Counties, The Extension Center, 173 South Grand St in Cobleskill; will repeat on Tuesday, 7/24, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., OCCA, Mohican Farms, 7207 St Hwy 80, Cooperstown, approx. 8 miles north of the Village.

The workshops are free and open to the public with an emphasis on land and forest owners, master gardeners, high school and college students, and others seeking to play active roles in invasive species management. Pre-registration is required. For more information and to register for the Monday workshop, call 518-234-4303, or email schohaire@cornell.edu; for the Tuesday workshop, call 607-282-4087, or email programdirector@occainfo.org. Registration is open through Friday, July 20, 2018.

All workshops are presented by MaMA’s originators, Jonathan Rosenthal, Director of Earth Research Institute (ERI), and Dr. Radka Wildova, ERI Senior Scientist. Sessions include hands-on demonstrations of techniques used to establish mortality plots, conduct Ash/EAB surveys, and report lingering ash. Attendance at an ERI MaMA workshop is required for participation in the MaMA Monitoring Plot Network and MaMA Lingering Ash Search citizen science/land manager projects.

The workshops also include: training in how to recognize ash and detect EAB; how to report EAB via the MaMA Ash/EAB Surveys Anecdata project; introductions to MaMA’s “Potential Lingering Ash Toolkit” to protect possible lingering ash from being felled; and MaMA’s other tools and integrated approach to EAB management and ash conservation. For more information on MaMA, visit MonitoringAsh.org or email outreach@monitoringash.org. 

The workshops are free and open to the public with an emphasis on land and forest owners, master gardeners, high school and college students, and others seeking to play active roles in invasive species management. Pre-registration is required. 

Registration is open through Friday, July 20, 2018.

To register for the Monday July 23rd Workshop please click here. For more information please call 518-234-4303 or email schoharie@cornell.edu.

To register for the Tuesday July 24th Workshop please click here. For more information please call 607-282-4087 or email programdirector@occainfo.org.

Fee

Free!

Location

Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Counties
Extension Center
173 South Grand Street, Suite 1
Cobleskill, New York 12043

Last updated July 18, 2018