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DASNR to host Forest Landowner Tour in Daisy
DAISY, Okla. – The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service has again teamed up with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry – Forestry Services and Oklahoma Woodland Owners Association to hold an educational forest landowner field tour.
“This year’s tour is an outreach activity to visit with people who don’t have a lot of money and own anywhere from 5 to 50 acres,” said Craig McKinley, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension forestry specialist. “This program will visit with landowners about what they can do to not only increase their profits but also to make their forest management sustainable.”
The tour will begin at 9 a.m. on June 13 at the Daisy Store in Daisy, located on State Highway 43 between Stringtown and Clayton, just off the Indian Nation Turnpike.
Registration is $10 per person, which includes lunch and refreshments during the day. Participants are asked to pre-register no later than June 5. To register, contact McKinley through e-mail at craig.mckinley@okstate.edu or by phone at 405-744-8065, or Darryl Hunkapillar, Oklahoma Forestry Services by e-mail at darrylh@oda.state.ok.us or by phone at 580-584-3351
Major topics to be covered will include best management practices for harvesting, road construction and streamside management, as well as carbon credits and non-industrial forest management.
McKinley said the best management practices will focus on activities that can be implemented by owners who are not affiliated with a large company with a lot of dollars. For example, how can a landowner put in a road to minimize sedimentation?
“We have found over time that the harvesting operation produces some sediment, but its not so much from the harvesting itself, it’s more from the roads we use to get to where we are going to harvest and to bring the product back out,” he said.
The tour will include a discussion of what to do about roads, harvesting near a stream, putting in water bars and principles and practices related to forest land ownership.
“Oklahoma is noted for its abundance of beautiful streams and lakes,” Hunkapillar said. “The people who attend this tour will benefit by learning methods of helping our state remain in such an enviable position and also learn ways of maintaining their own land.”
Transportation will be provided for travel to and from specific tour sites.
Anyone seeking additional information about the upcoming field tour should contact McKinley or Hunkapillar.
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