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Lyon County CES

Title:
Forestry Management and Enterprises
MAP:
Forested Systems
Agents Involved:
Susan Fox
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Forestry Industry Education
Situation:
Sound forest management is important to the environment, wildlife management, and can provide a periodic source of income. There are associated crop production possibilities. Hunting is a very important and popular part of rural area culture.
Long-Term Outcomes:
Sustained healthy forests for recreation and income sources for landowners.
Intermediate Outcomes:
Implemented forestry practices, wildlife food plots, maintenance of Master Logger Certification. Practices implemented to manage disease and insect pest, noxious weeds, etc.
Initial Outcomes:

Improved knowledge of forestry management principles, forest and wildlife biology and potential profitability. Improved safety and knowledge of required timber management for loggers. Understanding and management of disease, invasive weeds, and income pests .

Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Participants in shiitake mushroom workshop showing increased knowledge.

Indicator: Participant responses

Method: Quiz

Timeline: March 2018


Intermediate Outcome: Mushrooms produced.

Indicator: Follow up with participants at programs

Method: Survey, discussions, site visits

Timeline: Fall 2018



Learning Opportunities:


Audience: Landowners

Project or Activity: Shiitake mushroom workshop

Content or Curriculum: Shiitake mushrooms

Inputs: UK materials, local experts

Date: 2018



Success Stories

Shiitake Mushroom Workshop and Hike

Author: Susan Fox

Major Program: Woodland Education

Shiitake mushroom workshops are common in eastern Kentucky but novel for western Kentucky. Calloway and Lyon Counties collaborated on the first Shiitake Mushroom Workshop and Hike this April. Twenty-nine participants learned about shiitake mushroom culture and about mushroom identification and characteristics from Ellen Crocker, University of Kentucky Post-Doctoral Scholar. There were opportunities to view preserved mushroom specimens and to use what they had learned and identify mushrooms in pi

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