Veterans and 9/11 Memorial Park

In February students from the Forest Management Practices class visited the Veterans and 9/11 Memorial Park at the Letterkenny Chapel to discuss ideas for developing a trail in the wooded area behind the Chapel. In the future forest technology students will volunteer to clean up the vegetation.









We had the opportunity to see the inside of the chapel, which was partially built by Italian POWs in WWII.

Replanting the Watershed

Forest technology students have been busy the past few weeks replanting a thirty acre clearcut on the Waynesboro Watershed with hybrid loblolly trees. The previous stand had became stagnant. Last summer it was harvested. The site was subsequently sprayed with herbicide to kill invasive plants. Now it's ready for replanting! Above is a picture of the freshman silviculture class after a laborious session.

One seedling.

At work with the dibble bar.

Mont Alto Academic Festival

Forestry students competed in the Mont Alto Academic Festival on April 16th. They cleaned up in the Science/Technology

• First Place: Chance Yeckley and Tiffany Roddy for "Meeting of the Pines Natural Area"
• Second Place: Kevin Braun and Eric Monger "The Distribution of American Chestnuts on Oak Road"
• Third Place: Logan Droppa for "Mapping Ornamental Trees: Korean Tetrainum and Amur Corktree"

Other forester presentations included:

• Matt Reitzel "Identifying and Mapping Fir Trees on Campus
• Andrew Baker " Practical Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Developing Forest Management Plans on Privately Owned Forest Land in Washington County, Pennsylvania"

Chance and Tiffany



Eric and Kevin


Logan


Andrew

Burn Pile Service Project

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Originally uploaded by P_Linehan.

Penn State Mont Alto forestry students are lighting the burn pile on the nursery field. Volunteers will work shifts all weekend to guard the fire. Much of this material came from the ice storm last December that cut power to campus over a whole weekend. Bring on the hot dogs!

Find more of the pictures on Facebook or Flickr.

Forester Web Sites

In the Forestry Computer Applications course students learn many computer techniques that are needed in forestry such as spreadsheets and document preparation. Communication in the digital requires knowledge of the web. Here are the sites that this fall's students are developing. Remember, they are works in progress.

Student	Web Site
Trent Ausherman	http://www.personal.psu.edu/twa5015
Andrew Baker	http://www.personal.psu.edu/ajb5092
Logan Droppa	http://www.personal.psu.edu/lsd128
Jason Freeman	http://www.personal.psu.edu/jlf5144
David Gillen	http://www.personal.psu.edu/dbg135
Darren Krebs	http://www.personal.psu.edu/djk5061
Josh Reiter	http://www.personal.psu.edu/jkr5025
Matt Reitzel	http://www.personal.psu.edu/mpr5049
Tiffany Roddy	http://www.personal.psu.edu/tnr5016
Ryan Thrush	http://www.personal.psu.edu/rwt132
John Westerfer	http://www.personal.psu.edu/jnw135
Chance Yeckley	http://www.personal.psu.edu/cjy5005