Schedule
8:00-9:00 - Registration and Refreshments
9:00 - Welcome
9:05-9:30 - Quality early successional habitat: Wildlife’s perspective
Speaker: Matt Shumar, Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative
9:30-9:50 - Grasping the scale: Challenges and opportunities
Speaker: Cody Grasser, Pheasants Forever
9:50-10:15 - What is Integrated Vegetation Management and why does it work?
Speaker: Pat Failor, First Energy
10:15-10:35 - What do you have to work with? Baseline vegetation assessments and how to prioritize limited resources
Speaker: Colby Tisdale, Arbormetrics
10:35-10:45 - BREAK
10:45-11:15 - Tools in the management toolbox: Herbicides and more
Speaker: Kathy Smith
11:15-11:45 - Quail focal area: Habitat successes through relationship-building
Speaker: John Kaiser
11:45-12:15 - Identifying and Encouraging beneficial “weed” species: It’s not just control
Speaker: Renee Buck, Mike Retterer
12:15-1:00 - LUNCH
1:00-1:40 - Partnership panel to achieve early successional habitat success
(2 minute intros, facilitated Q&A with emphasis on building partnerships)
John Kaiser – Private Lands Administrator
Sarah Moore – Ohio Precision Ag & Conservation Specialist, PF
Mike Ervin – Public Lands Administrator
Mike Retterer – National ROW & Energy Coordinator
Tim Lohner – American Electric Power
1:40-2:00 - Invasive species control: Case studies
Dan Matteson, Novco Inc. – honeysuckle, autumn olive
Joseph Lautenbach, ODNR project – managing NNIS in grasslands
2:00-2:15 - BREAK
2:15-3:15 - Walking tour: Dawes/AEP early successional habitat partnership
Speakers: Shana Byrd, Tim Lohner
3:15-4:00 - Technical guidance and hands-on review, gear, equipment and supplies
(20 minute show-and-tell, A 3:15-3:35, B 3:40-4:00; attendees choose 2)
Travis Kruse – GPS-enabled, auto mixing sprayer
Kathy Smith –sprayer calibration demo
Mike Retterer – seed mixes & seeding
Renee Buck – rapid-fire species ID
4:00 - SAFE TRAVELS HOME