Kansas Forest Service to host statewide trainings
Community foresters offer day-long events for city foresters, city staff, tree boards and other green industry professionals
October 30, 2019
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas Forest Service is offering day-long community forestry trainings across the state in November to address tree issues faced by Kansas communities.
KFS officials note that properly caring for trees in the urban environment has become an increasingly difficult task for city foresters, city staff, tree boards and other green industry professionals.
Training topics include the environmental impacts of drought, windstorm events and other environmental factors and the potential problems that may negatively affect community trees. Attendees will learn how tree defects can make a tree hazardous and a candidate for removal.
The agenda includes an indoor discussion of tree assessment, removal, proper pruning and storm damage pruning; and an outdoor pruning demonstration.
Dates and locations include:
Tuesday, Nov. 5 - Emporia
Tuesday, Nov. 5 - Hays
Thursday, Nov. 7 - Marysville
Thursday, Nov. 14 - Olathe
Tuesday, Nov. 19 - Park City
Thursday, Nov. 21 - Parsons Arboretum
Registration is required and currently open at https://communityforestrytraining.eventbrite.com. The registration fee is $5.
For more information, contact your district community forester.
About the Kansas Forest Service
The Kansas Forest Service is the nation’s fifth oldest state forestry agency. The agency serves rural landowners, communities, rural fire districts, forest and arboriculture industries, and citizens of the state through its Conservation Tree and Shrub Planting, Fire Management, Community Forestry, Rural Forestry, Marketing and Utilization, and Forest Health programs. The Kansas Forest Service state office is located in Manhattan, Kansas, just west of the campus of Kansas State University. The Kansas Forest Service is housed as an independent agency within K-State Research and Extension. The agency receives its direction from a mission statement that reads: “Care of natural resources and service to people through forestry.”
