Discount registration for the Ohio River Valley Woodland and Wildlife Workshop ends today, Feb. 28. Pull up more information. (Photo: iStock.)
Month: February 2018
What to do about flooding? Next EPN
Cincinnati just suffered its worst Ohio River flooding since 1997. So the timing is unfortunately good for the next Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) breakfast program.
Next Science Café on natural product synthesis
CFAES’s Thom Janini, pictured, professor of chemistry at Ohio State ATI, speaks on “Natural Product Synthesis” at 7 p.m. March 1 in the Wooster Science Café series. Meet in the upstairs event space at Spoon Market and Deli, 144 W. Liberty St. in downtown Wooster. Admission is free.
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Study: The dollar value of clean beaches
What are clean ocean beaches worth? A study co-authored by Tim Haab, professor in CFAES’s Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, uncovered answers.
See what’s in bloom or about to be
What’s in bloom in your town? Use CFAES’s online Phenology Calendar to find out. Go to the website, enter your ZIP code, and see a daily listing of the stages of bloom of trees and shrubs around you. Entries might say, “Apple serviceberry, first bloom,” for example, or “Koreanspice viburnum, full bloom.” There’s also an option to see the whole season.
Apply by today for Compost Course grants
If you’re interested in attending the Ohio Compost Operator Education Course on March 21-22 in Wooster, four grants are available to help you pay for some of your costs. But act fast: the deadline to apply for them is today, Monday, Feb. 26.
Two $225 grants are being offered to members of the Organics Recycling Association of Ohio (ORAO), which is hosting the course together with CFAES, and two $150 grants are being offered to nonmembers.
Compost Operator Course is March 21-22
Registration is open for the Ohio Compost Operator Education Course, a professional development course on large-scale composting set for March 21-22 in Wooster.
Why get all pruney
CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster is holding a workshop on pruning on March 8. Why? Experts say proper pruning of trees and shrubs can help them grow, look, flower and fruit better. It also can cut their pest and disease risk. Find details and a link to register ($25 for Friends of Secrest Arboretum members, $30 for nonmembers.) (Photo: iStock.)
This is the ‘new normal’
CFAES climate specialist Aaron Wilson says Ohio now gets about 10 percent more rain annually than it used to, and it’s affecting farmers’ field work and the risk of nutrient runoff.
On St. Patrick’s Day, the carin’ for the green
The annual Ohio River Valley Woodland and Wildlife Workshop, aimed at landowners in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana but also for anyone else interested in conservation, is on March 17 near Cincinnati. CFAES is one of its sponsors. Read more about it. (Photo: Red trillium, Joshua Moore, iStock.)