Forest health workshop at library

05 May Forest health workshop at library

[click "Play" button to hear TNCC's Colleen Trout and CSU Extension horticulturist Yvette Henson]

Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library to host forest health workshop, Friday, May 8

Poet Ogden Nash wrote poems that amounted to bite size op ed pieces inveighing against society's shortsightedness. The one about loss of trees due to commercialism goes like this:

"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
(from "Song of the Open Road," 1933)

Telluride's tree problem is different, but no less daunting: bark beetles and other creepy crawlies are on the march – or is it munch? Sudden Aspen Decline (SADS) and Magnesium Chloride also enter into the picture, which is not pretty.

For the Big Picture on what amounts to a big and growing problem,  the place to be is the Program Room, Wilkinson Public Library, Friday, May 8, 12 – 3:30 p.m., when The New Community Coalition, the San Miguel River Basin/Colorado State University Extension, and Wilkinson Public Library and a panel of experts present a forest health workshop aptly themed "See the Forest and the Trees!"

For further information, find Colleen at 970-728-1340,  and Yvette at 970-327-4393.