Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Lake Carl Blackwell: Camp Redlands and South side of lake
CEUs: 6 pesticide credits
Lunch provided for free
Registration free; RSVP required at least one week in advance:
AGENDA:
9-11:30am: Lake Carl Blackwell – Camp Redlands
- Historic Cross Timbers composition & change; background (Ryan DeSantis)
- Overview of research plots (Sydny Hager)
- Eastern redcedar mechanical treatment (Ryan DeSantis)
- Eastern redcedar burning techniques; cut and stuff (John Weir)
- Implications of cutting and burning eastern redcedar within oak stands on fire rate of spread, intensity, and oak mortality (Ryan DeSantis, John Weir, Sydny Hager)
- Predicting eastern redcedar burning: fuel type, moisture, architecture (John Weir)
11:30am-12pm: Travel from Camp Redlands to south side of Lake Carl Blackwell
12-12:30pm: Lunch – Lake Carl Blackwell pavilions on south side of lake
12:30-3pm: Lake Carl Blackwell – 51C - Controlling eastern redcedar with fire (John Weir)
- Eastern redcedar herbicide control; soil applied pellets (Laura Goodman)
- Eastern redcedar herbicide control; foliar treatments (Laura Goodman)
- Post-management forage implications (Laura Goodman)
- Cut & stuff demonstration burn (John Weir)