Events

Woodland Owners and Maple Production: Is It an Income Are you a woodland owner who would like to produce an annual income from their property?  It can be difficult to achieve an annual income but maple production may be the answer. This class will introduce woodland owners to the ins and outs of maple syrup production.  Is your woods suitable?  How involved do you want to be?  How much are you willing to invest into such an endeavor?  We will start inside and finish the day outside looking at equipment options. 

Join Cornell University Cooperative Extension Foresters Peter Smallidge and Brett Chedzoy to learn how slash walls (www.slashwall.info) are tilting the battle to protect regenerating woodlands from detrimental deer browsing.  This novel approach of building impenetrable deer barriers at low cost from logging slash was developed at Cornell’s Arnot Teaching and Research Forest in 2017.  Seven years and dozens of slash walls later across the Northeast are showing that this scaleable and cost-effective practice shows very promising results to sustain diverse and productive forests.