Lyon County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2018





1126 - Woodland Education
1126.1) 4

Number of individuals that attended woodland education programs

1126.2) 500

Number of woodland acres owned by woodland education program attendees

1126.3) 4

Number of individuals that increased their understanding of the importance of healthy and productive woodland

1126.4) 4

Number of individuals indicating the woodland education program(s) helped them with their woodland

1126.5) 4

Number of individuals that planned or implemented one or more woodland management practices

1126.6) 0

Number of individuals with a management plan and those that plan to get one

1126.7) 4

Number of individuals that planned or worked with a natural resource professional

1126.8) 4

Number of individuals that planned or encouraged others to implement woodland management practices



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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