Saturday, August 4, 2012

Conservation Symposium

Thank you to Meiring Borcherds for the following information concerning the event that FOEC is helping to sponsor, featuring a session on earthworm impact.

This year's Conservation Symposium, Forest Management: Seeing the Forest and the Trees, is from Thursday, September 6 through Saturday, September 8, 2012, with a full day of talks scheduled on Friday, September 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. You can register today for only $15/person.

To register or read more about our event, visit: http://www.cmnh.org/site/Conservation/ConservationSymposium.aspx

On Thursday, we're offering a full day training session for resource managers on the Invasive Earthworm Rapid Assessment Tool (IERAT). Dr. Cindy Hale, University of Minnesota, will lead the workshop with classroom instruction on the history of the earthworm invasion in North America and their impact on the forest ecosystem, including the correlation between worms and invasive plants. She'll also host an afternoon field component that will include visits to several locations in Northeast Ohio which have varying degrees of earthworm impact.
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A sincere thank you to our 2012 Conservation Symposium Sponsors: Cleveland Metroparks; Cleveland Metroparks Zoo; Cleveland Zoological Society; Friends of Euclid Creek; Geauga Park District; The Holden Arboretum; Lake Metroparks; Metro Parks, Serving Summit County; Native Plant Society of Northeast Ohio; Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District; Northeast Ohio Sierra Club; Ohio Biological Survey; Ohio Division of Wildlife; Ohio Invasive Plant Council; Robert Half Management Resources; The Nature Conservancy; The Trout Club of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; and Western Reserve Land Conservancy. 

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