As we continue to work through our modified operations, it has allowed the Forestry and Wildlife Team to re-evaluate the ways we have engaged our landowners. Our engagement has always been heavily focused on in-person interactions, but the team has been working on other ways to meet the needs of our landowners in South Carolina.
The team has continued to work directly with landowners and stakeholders while maintaining social distancing but has also been working on our social media presence, written and online content, and establishing demonstration areas. The team has been open to expanding our methods of engagement into areas that we have not traditionally used to interact with our landowners.
Highlights since March:
566 direct landowner calls or site visits
Social Media and Online Content:
92 posts with a reach of 17,397
Clemson Forestry and Natural Resources Facebook
Created a media section on the team webpage and developing a YouTube channel
Clemson Forestry and Natural Resources YouTube
- Converting an in-person invasive species workshop over to a 5-module webinar
- Developing a Firescaping program to be included in the Master Gardener program
- Food Plot webinar
- Armadillo and Fire Ants webinar
- In development stages of creating a hybrid-based Master Tree Farmer Program
- Worked on video content for the Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP)
- Established internal team controls related to social media and online content
Written Content:
Created and distributed our Spring 2020 quarterly CU in the Woods e-newsletter – 2,023 views – Forestry and Natural Resources Newsletter
Article submitted to Sustainable Forestry Initiative on SC Women Owning Woodlands
In Review or Published 16 Fact Sheets/Publications to Either HGIC or Land-Grant Press
- How to Take Good Photos for Your Extension Agent
- An Introduction to Timber Sale Contracts
- Sealed Timber Bids: What You Need to Know to Sell Your Timber (under review in Land-Grant Press)
- Chemical Release Treatments for Pine Regeneration (under review in Land-Grant Press)
- Timber Harvesting Equipment in South Carolina
- Herbicide Application: The Label Is the Law
- Pine Bark Beetles in Urban Setting
- Backpack Sprayer Calibration for Forestry Use (under review in Land-Grant Press)
- A Brief Summary of the 2017 South Carolina Logging Business Survey
- Fundamentals of Forest Resource Management Planning
- Carbon Markets: An Alternative Income Opportunity for South Carolina Forest Landowners
- Flatheaded Hackberry Borer (Agrilus macer): A Secondary Pest on Sugarberry Trees in the Southern United States
- Carbon Offsets for South Carolina Family Forest Landowners
- A Key for Aging White-tailed Deer Using Tooth Replacement and Wear Techniques (under review in Land-Grant Press)
- Copperheads vs. Look-a-likes
- Flowering Dogwood – Diseases and Pests
Demonstration Sites
- Established and measured 16 research plots for thorny olive herbicide treatments
- Working with Pee Dee REC on a prescribed burning project with follow-up studies related to control of undesirable vegetation
- Worked with Water Resources Team at Pee Dee REC to evaluate stream banks for stabilization project, program, and demonstration
- Establishing 3 hardwood demonstration sites around the state
- Establishing forestry herbicide trials on the Experimental Forest and in Georgetown County
- Measured sample plots related to a longleaf trial, partnership with UGA Extension
Submitted by: Derrick Phinney, Natural Resources Team Director, on behalf of the Forestry and Wildlife Team
