: ifwoa1@gmail.com
: 765.583.3501
Friday, November 3rd
(All times listed are Eastern time, although the afternoon tour locations are located in the central time zone.)
10 – 11:00am Optional morning field tour, Werner sawmill. Meet at Shiloh Church, 1971 W SR 56, Jasper to carpool to sawmill, 3545 N 550 W, Jasper.
11:15 – 12:15 Lunch at Shiloh Church (bring a sack lunch, drinks/dessert provided)
1:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Niehaus property tour. Meet at 27000 Cougar Road, Bristow. (Noon CT)
2:00 – 3:30 Alternate tour of St. Meinrad Archabbey caskets workshop, monastery and church, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. (1 PM CT)
3:30 – 3:50 Travel to Comfort Inn Jasper after tour
4:00pm Registration desk opens in hotel lobby
4:00 – 6:30 Dinner on your own. New landowners/1st time guests meet in the lobby at 4:45 for optional “get acquainted” dinner with board members.
5:00 – 6:30 Indiana Forestry Educational Foundation board meeting (guests welcome)
6:30 – 7:00 Dessert Reception, Thyen-Clark Cultural Center Black Box theatre, 100 3rd St, Jasper
7:00 – 8:00 Indiana Caves and Karst: Carla Winner, IN Karst Conservancy
Saturday, November 4th
All events at the Huntingburg Event Center, 110 E. 14th Street
7:30 – 8:30am IFWOA Board of Directors meeting (guests welcome)
9:00 Registration desk and Silent Auction open
9 – 9:45 Optional morning program: District networking discussion. Meet board members and other members of your region for a meet up and informal discussion.
10:00 – 4:15 Kids program. Bring your children to the small conference room for supervised activities.
10:00 Opening/Welcome
10:10 – 10:55 Keynote: Achieving your Goals While Creating a Healthy Forest: The National Forest Model, Jeremiah Heise, Hoosier National Forest
10:55 – 11:05 Rotation
11:05 – 11:40 Concurrent Sessions
Trails planning, construction and maintenance, Caryn Atkinson, IN DNR
Managing invasives with goats, Ron Rathfon, Purdue Forestry & Natural Resources
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Dan Shaver, NRCS
11:40 – 11:50 Rotation
11:50 – 12:20 Roundtable discussions (final topics TBD): Navigating NRCS cost share programs, how to select a consulting forester, having a timber sale, maple syruping, planting nuts, invasive species Q&A, deer impacts on your property, passing property to the next generation
12:20 – 1:35 Lunch
1:35 – 2:00 Indiana Division of Forestry update, John Seifert, IN Division of Forestry
2:00 – 2:10 Rotation
2:10 – 2:45 Concurrent Sessions
Prescribed fire on private lands, Nathan Kachnavage, consulting forester
Timber industry and markets, Dennis Voyles, Orion Hardwoods
Creating and maintaining pollinator and wildlife habitat plots, Olivia Fry, Pheasants Forever
2:45 – 2:55 Rotation/break
2:55 – 3:25 IFWOA and IFEF business meeting and policy update
3:20 Silent auction closes
3:25 – 4:00 Keynote: The Last “Old-Growth” Animal in Indiana, Allen Pursell, Sam Shine Foundation
4:00 – 4:15 Closing
4:45 – 5:15 Social time with cash bar, live auction items displayed
5:15 – 7:45 PM IFWOA Awards Banquet and IFEF Live Auction
Agenda may be subject to change.
Call the Comfort Inn Jasper at 1-812-556-2888 through October 12 for the special rate. A block of rooms is available for $90 single and double + tax (extra persons $10). Ask for the Indiana Forestry & Woodland Owners Association group.
The hotel is located at 1970 Hospitality Drive, Jasper. Hotel website. Rooms can be cancelled 1 day prior by 4 PM. There is a free breakfast and refrigerator and microwave in rooms. The hotel is 4 miles north of the Huntingburg Event Center, site of the Saturday meeting.
Indiana Forestry & Woodland Owners' Association
Indiana Forestry & Woodland Owners' Association