Want to learn more about Hemlock Woolly Adelgid?
BIOLOGY of HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID and CONIFER ALTERNATIVES
DATE: Saturday, October 23rd
TIME: 9:00am-12:00pm.
LOCATION: Capwell 214
For more information call Deanna Haluska at:
(570) 945-8555
Join us for a presentation
on the biology of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and a discussion on
possible conifer alternatives within the landscape.
Thanks to a grant awarded from the Northeast Pennsylvania Urban
and Community Forestry Program, Keystone College
and the Northeast Pennsylvania Urban and Community Forestry
Program have developed a Conifer Interpretive Community Resource
Site on the Campus of Keystone College. The purpose of
the grant is to plant conifers on Keystone’s Campus to show
alternatives to the hemlock. This site serves
as the setting to conduct educational programs for the
community, as well as demonstrations of alternatives to
Hemlocks. Alternatives are necessary due to the decline
of the Eastern Hemlock due to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
infestation. The grant also allowed landscaping to occur around
KceeI and the Urban Forestry Center. Invasive plants were
removed and designs for appropriate plantings have been created
by Landscape Architects Donna Murphy and Tom Mc Lane.
Speakers will include
Tom Mc Lane
and
Richard Evans.
Tom is a certified landscape architect who served as a
consultant/designer for planting conifer alternatives to the
Eastern Hemlock on Keystone College’s campus. He is also
developing an interpretive guide for these conifers. Richard
Evans holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology from the University
of Wisconsin and a Master’s Degree in Ecology from Cornell
University. He has been with the National Park Service, at the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area for 12 years where
he serves as an ecologist performing such duties as directing
and managing the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Program, overseeing the
Delaware River water quality protection program, and serving as
the project manager for biological inventories and ecological
studies. Richard will present detailed information about the
adelgid and how it has impacted the forest ecosystems within the
Delaware Water Gap. Following this presentation Tom will lead
the attendees on a walk through Keystone’s main campus to
discuss several specimen trees for their use as alternatives to
planting eastern hemlocks.
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