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Forestry Best Management Practices and Skidder Bridge Workshop
November 17, 2021 @ 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Join us for a logging site tour that will discuss portable skidder bridge placement across streams, Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs), Erosion and sediment control products for timber harvests, permits and cleaning up spills. In additional to the logging site tour, attendees will also construct a portable skidder bridge at Ward Pine Mill.
This workshop will focus on the benefits of BMPs for:
- water quality protection
- forest and soil health improvement
- the conservation of critical habitat areas.
At the conclusion of the workshop, each logger in attendance will be entered into a drawing to take the skidder bridge with them for FREE!!! All workshop attendees will receive a copy of the NYS 2018 Forestry BMP Field Guide. This workshop is FREE and open to the public and no previous training or experience is required.
Continuing Education Credits available through:
- Society of American Foresters—4.5
- Master Logger Training – 6hrs
- New York Logger Training – 1
**Pending approval
Register by 11.12.2021 as space is limited.
Registration can be completed online at google forms, by phone: 518.651.2097, or email: kballou@fcswcd.org