2015 NJFA Annual Meeting & Member Program 

 Practical Forest Stewardship for New Jersey's Woodlands

New Jersey Forestry Association’s 40^th Annual Meeting

Saturday March 21, 2015

Cook Campus Center, Rutgers University, 59 Biel Road, New Brunswick 

    8:30 -  9:00   Registration and Continental Breakfast

   9:00 -  9:30  Welcome - Richard Conley, NJFA President

                                Dr. Robert Goodman, Executive Dean, Rutgers

    9:30 -10:00 State Forestry Services:  Changes Affecting Forest Management

                                Lynn Fleming, State Forester

  10:00 -10:30 New Jersey Woodland Stewards Program

                                Dr. Mark Vodak, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Office

  10:30 -10:45  Refreshment Break and Silent Auction

  10:45 -11:15  Legislative & Regulatory Actions in Trenton and Forestry:  What You

                                Should Know

                                Barbara McConnell, NJFA Legislative Agent

                                Honorable Ronald Dancer (R-12), Member NJ Assembly, Member

                                        Assembly Agriculture and Environment Committee

  11:15 - 12:00 Northern Long-Eared Bat & Forest Management

                                Steve Kallesser, Consulting Forester, Gracie & Harrigan Consulting

                                Foresters

                           Emerald Ash Borer

                                Paul Kurtz, Entomologist, NJ Department of Agriculture

12:00 -  1:15    Lunch, Annual Business Meeting and Silent Auction

  1:15 -  1:45    Managing Invasive Plants

                                Susan Brookman, Executive Director, NJ Invasive Species Strike Team

  1:45 -  2:45    Woodland Assessment & Tax Assessors Responsibility:

                                Patricia Wright, Deputy Director, Compliance & Enforcement and

                                         Property Administration, NJ Dvision of Taxation

                                Melissa Rockwell, CTA, Sussex County Tax Administrator,

                                         NJ Woodland Steward 

  2:45 -  3:00    Refreshment Break and Silent Auction

  3:00 -  3:45    NRCS Landowner Programs 

                                  Evan Madlinger 

  3:45 -  4:30   Chainsaw Raffle Drawing, 50/50 Cash Raffle Drawing, Silient Auction

                                 & Wrap Up

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