Wisconsin Event
Forestry Field Trip 2018
Bohlin End-O-Way Farm
DATE: | July 30, 2018 |
Location: | 10854 Robin Lane, Stitzer, WI |
Description: | National Annual meeting field trip |
Status: | past |
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Description
Tour of the Bohlin End-O-Way Farm, with views of the driftless region of southwest Wisconsin, Oak and Walnut stands of various ages with discussions including management, erosion control, evasives control.
Agenda
Morning Rotation Topics: Native plantings & pollinators, oak savanna and buckthorn management, EQIP, erosion management, natural stand management
Afternoon Walking Tour:Maximizing quality in log processing, oak regeneration, BMP’s for runoff, monarch butterfly habitat, riparian buffers, managing regeneration from a mother tree
Logan Wells, a local timber buyer and a wood utilization specialist, used
his personal mill to saw walnut logs and discussed issues related to maintaining
grade when sawing logs and maximizing production from the logs.
Logan Wells demonstrates use of the mill to saw boards from logs cut from the Bohlin Farm.
Board cut from log in the demonstration of the use of a personal mill.
Dan Bohlin (standing behind the wood plank bench wearing the Walnut
Council hat), the host for the 2018 National Meeting field day, is
pictured in a riparian corridor discussing management techniques he has
implemented to control erosion and water flow.
John Nielsen speaks on how to manage seedlings from a mother tree.
