[Iesaf_palouse] February SAF Meeting

[Mark Kimsey]

Palouse-Snake River SAF Chapter February Meeting

Title:  Afforestation in County Kerry Ireland: Transformations of
landscapes and lifeways in a rapidly shifting rural economy

Meeting Topic:

This study looks at local response to planting and managing forests in
landscapes in which they have been absent in many cases for hundreds of
years. Two study areas in the farming regions of the north of County
Kerry Ireland were selected. One area had seen extensive afforestation
over the last generation while the other had witnessed much more modest
afforestation rates. The results suggest that this response is best
understood in the context of a rapidly changing local society in which
family farming, long a tradition, is being replaced by a more industrial
model of agriculture and in which the non-agricultural economy (known
popularly as the “Celtic tiger”) has grown at an unprecedented rate.
 
The response to new forests, which is mixed, is partly linked to
environmental questions such as the appropriateness of near monocultures
of a non-indigenous tree species (Sitka spruce) and other environmental
issues.  The response is also linked to the dramatic change in landscape
appearance that accompany such planting and what that changed appearance
symbolizes in terms of the social and economic shifts that the region
and the entire island is experiencing.

Presented By: Matt Carroll, WSU

WHEN: Feb. 5th, 2007

         Social Hour @ 5:30 pm
         Dinner @ 6:15 pm
         Presentation @ 7:00 pm

WHERE: The Hawthorne Inn & Suites, Pullman, WA (next to Hilltop
Restaurant, 928 NW Davis Way)

MENU: Limited Menu Selection (catered by The Hilltop Restaurant)

COST: Variable ($6 - $15)

RSVP: Please RSVP to Mark Kimsey at 208-885-7520 or mkimsey at uidaho.edu
by Friday, Feb. 2nd.

FORESTER’S RAFFLE: $1/ticket or $5 for 6 tickets

*Note: Each Palouse-Snake River Chapter meeting is worth 1 CFE credit.

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Mark Kimsey
Intermountain Forest Tree Nutrition Cooperative
Department Forest Resources
College of Natural Resources
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1133
Phone: 208.885.7520
Mobile: 509.330.0640
Fax: 208.885.7442