Forest Education: Health, Management, and Utilization Major Program
Total Hours
Contributed.
Contacts
with Local Stakeholders.
Hours
of Multistate Efforts.
Total Number
of Volunteers Engaged.
Program Indicators
Number of people who increased knowledge on forest health, management and/or utilization (includes forest health program, urban tree health programs, forestry webinar series, Master Loggers program, Woodland Owner Short course, Non-timber products[i.e. mushrooms, Christmas trees, maple syrup], naturalist programs, county based forestry program, small scale logging forest industry training, log and lumber grading trainings, and other "tree-centric" programs) |
2926 |
Number of individuals who implemented one or more forest health, management and/or utilization practices |
445 |
Number of businesses impacted by forest health, management and utilizations programs (note: Master Loggers typically represent a small business) |
363 |
Number of dollars saved/earned by implementing forest health, management and utilization practices |
429000 |
Number of acres owned or managed by forest health, management and utilization program participants |
22307 |
Stories
Working around Poison Ivy
BTC, our local telephone and internet provider was interested in doing a training for their staff on poison ivy. They must have regular safety meeting for their personnel to remain compliant with their governing board. They contacted Tom Miller, Ballard County Agent for ANR to determine the possibility of the presenting a program.Mr. Miller present the training in their conference room for 25 employees. The training consisted of a description of poison ivy and how to identify it throughout the y...
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Stories Behind the Numbers
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