UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Pennsylvania is one of
three states participating in a U.S
Department of Agriculture effort
to develop extension education
programs in ecology and silvicul
ture for loggers.
Along with Tennessee and
North Carolina, Pennsylvania
received a USDA Cooperative
Extension Service grant to deve
lop materials for a national effort
called Logger Education to
Advance Professionalism, or
LEAP.
“The ecology and silviculture
training is designed to sensitize
loggers to environmental issues,
improve their communication
with natural resource profession
als, and bolster their professional
image,” said Dr. James Finley,
assistant professor of forestry in
Penn State’s College of Agricul
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Fifteen loggers from Pennsyl
vania’s northern tier participated
in a LEAP pilot workshop held
this fall at the USDA Forest Ser
vice’s Kane Experimental Forest
The workshop featured 16 hours
of field training and classroom
instruction in ecology, biodiver
sity and silviculture, the art of
managing a forest ecosystem.
“After we evaluate the response
of participants, we’ll make any
necessary changes to the work
shop materials,” Finley said. ‘The
revised materials will be included
in a certification program for
Pennsylvania’s 3,000 timber har
vesters.”
The voluntary logger certifica
tion program is sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Timber Harvesting
Council and supported by envir
onmental groups such as the
Western Pennsylvania Conservan-
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Participants earned 3.2 logger
training units for completing the
ecology and silviculture
workshop.
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pilot workshop.
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The complete Pennsylvania
timber harvester certification also
includes 70 hours of training in
safety, production, erosion, and
sedimentation control, business
management, and wetlands
protection.
“Loggers who participate in the
certification program will benefit
professionally from the latest
information about forest resour
ces, and they may benefit finan
cially from reduced workers’
compensation insurance rates for
certified loggers,” Bihun said.
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loggers develop a better under
standing of how their actions
affect the forest system.”
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State Cooperative Extension, the
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