Extension
It Starts With Us
Forestry Management and Enterprises
Forested Systems
Susan Fox
Forestry Industry Education
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.
Sustained healthy forests for recreation and income sources for landowners.
Implemented forestry practices, wildlife food plots, maintenance of Master Logger Certification. Practices implemented to manage disease and insect pest, noxious weeds, etc.
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 .
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
Audience: Landowners
Project or Activity: Shiitake mushroom workshop
Content or Curriculum: Shiitake mushrooms
Inputs: UK materials, local experts
Date: 2018
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
