Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and MSU Cascade County Extension Partner for Arbor Day
Great Falls – The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is partnering with MSU Cascade County Extension to host a free seminar in celebration of Arbor Day. The two organizations will host Peter Kolb, Ph.D. with MSU Extension. Kolb is the MSU Extension Forestry Specialist and Association Professor of Forest Ecology and Management housed at the University of Montana in the Department of Forest Management.
Kolb will present Root and Shoots: The Keys to Successful Tree Planting and Survival. He will discuss how buying and planting trees has become a national pastime for most anyone or community across the United States. There is after all nothing like showing grand kids or great grandkids a beautiful tree that exists because an ancestor planted it, and the connection that such a tree can make across many generations. However, the Great Plains of Montana are one of the harshest environments in the U.S. for getting trees to survive, let alone grow well. Kolb will share 20 years of experience reviewing and helping tree planters hone their skills, which includes when to plant, how to prepare poor sites, how to prune trees for success, and most importantly how to select for quality growing stock.
Kolb will provide his newly written and illustrated 40 page tree pruning guide free of charge to the first 50 attendees. The FREE presentation will be at the held in the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Theater at 4201 Giant Springs Road, Great Falls, Montana on Friday, April 29, 2016, starting at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, contact the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at (406) 727-8733 or the MSU Cascade County Extension office at (406) 454-6980.
