Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation & Development Council (PNERCD) will be conducting a warbler workshop at LGNC’s Osprey House!
Why are Golden-winged and Cerulean warblers critically threatened? What can be done about this? Come and learn more about the problems warblers are facing and what land owners and interested people can do to help them survive and flourish.
Workshop starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 12:00 p.m. Admission FREE! Please sign up at https://www.pnercd.org/warbler-workshop.html, or call (570) 234-3577 ext2. Walk-ins also welcome.
Agenda:
8:45 a.m.: Registration
8:55 a.m.: Welcome, Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation & Development Council (PNERCD): Wesley Keller, Board Secretary and George Kauffman, Executive Director
9:00 a.m.: Optimal Forest Management for Warblers & Other Birds, Jeff Larkin, Professor of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
9:45 a.m.: Break and refreshments
10:00 a.m.: Landowner’s Role in Helping Forest Birds, Carl Martin, Director of Property Stewardship for the Wildlands Conservancy in PA
10:45 a.m.: Break and refreshments
11:00 a.m.: Migration and Other Factors Affecting Warblers, Gregory George, Professor of Biology, Delaware Valley University
11:45 a.m.: Questions and discussion
12:00 p.m.: Workshop ends
Pocono Northeast RC&D (PNERCD), who is presenting this workshop, has been in operation for more than forty years, carrying out many environmentally-related projects. This workshop is funded by USDA National Resource Conservation Service.