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Heartwood Forest Council in Ohio
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Save the Date for the 18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council, Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-26, 2008, to be held at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio.
Online Registration coming by next week. Download PDF Brochure: www.heartwood.org/forestcou...ochure.pdf
We would like to invite you to the 18th annual Heartwood Forest Council, to be held Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26, 2008, at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio. Hosts for this years event include Heartwood, the Buckeye Forest Council, Save Our Shawnee Forest, Voices for the Forest, Meigs Citizens Action Now!, Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests, and EarthWatch Ohio. The theme of this year's Forest Council is "Burning Issues: Climate is a Forest Product."
What is the Heartwood Forest Council?
The Heartwood Forest Council is the largest annual gathering of citizens from across the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern United States who care about the health and well-being of our nation's forests. This will be the second time this event has taken place in Ohio, the first being at Camp Oty Okwa in 1992. We will focus on threats to our region and to human and community health, in an atmosphere of collaboration designed to form stronger personal and organizational connections. While addressing the issues we face and celebrating the work that we do, the Forest Council offers participants an opportunity to identify lasting solutions and proven action steps that will move us as a community toward a shared vision of a healthy, just, and sustainable society.
The program will begin the afternoon of Friday, May 23, and continue through mid-day, Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day), and will be interspersed with ample social time, leisure, lively local music, dancing and great food. The Forest Council will be family friendly - kids of all ages are encouraged to attend.
This year's Forest Council will explore how we can nurture sustainable local and regional networks and a culture of cooperation and care. Together we will identify viable alternatives to the dominant economy and its toxic legacy of waste and prepare ourselves with the knowledge and tools to protect ourselves, our communities, and our planet. The program will consist of three days of workshops, discussions, keynote speakers, and field trips. Key program elements will include:
* Forest Issues: public lands management, roadless and other special areas, prescribed burning on state and national forests, genetically modified trees, sustainable forestry and low impact logging, land certification, and land management strategies and opportunities including the value of non-timber forest products.
* Coal, air, energy and climate issues: coal mining and processing, including mountaintop removal, room and pillar, and longwall mining, coal-fired power plants, air pollution and global climate change. We will also talk about resurgent efforts to promote nuclear power, the alternatives to fossil fuel such as wind, solar and hydropower, and the connections between forests and energy production including cellulosic ethanol and biomass.
* Sustainability issues: creating viable communities and taking responsibility for our own future; localized economies, permaculture, local and regional food production and distribution, alternative energy and transportation, traditional uses of plants and their preservation, religion and environmental protection, alternatives to the corporate control of food and seed supply; and how to sustain our minds, bodies and spirits as we seek environmental justice and transformational change.
18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Program
Theme: Burning Issues Climate Is A Forest Product
Program Tracks:
1) Forest Issues
2) Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives
Where: Camp Oyo Shawnee State Forest - Ohio
When: Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26, 2008
Weekend Schedule:
Friday, May 23 General Goals: Introductions and Reunions
Afternoon hike - Shawnee State Forest/Park Hike
led by Kevin Bradbury - Regional Manager Shawnee and Adams Lake State Parks.
5:30-7:00 Dinner: Vegetarian Gumbo with tofu hot
dogs, brown rice, roasted asparagus, Salad
greens, vegan Cornbread, Strawberry shortcake.
7:00-9:00pm - Forest Council welcome:
Ernie Reed - Heartwood
Barb Lund - Save Our Shawnee Forest
David Maywhoor - Buckeye Forest Council
History of the Shawnee Forest:
Shawnee Nation Reflections - Dr. Cora Tula Watters
Lower Scioto Valley history Dr. Andrew Lee Feight
Flora and Fauna of Shawnee - Kevin Bradbury & Jenny Richards -
9:15 til? Campfire behind the dining hall for
planned and unplanned music, and spontaneous revelry
Saturday, May 24 General Goals: Explore the
Issues: Follow one of the tracks or do some of both:
Forest Issues - physical and economic issues
Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives
6:30 - Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Baked Omelet with asparagus,
feta, ramps, fresh herbs with green tomato salsa,
Vegan Paw Paw cornmeal pancakes OR vegan Paw Paw
Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup,
Tempeh/potato sausages (vegan) or sun choke latkes, Fruit
9:00-10:30 - General Introduction to the
workshops’ “burning issues” by the leaders of the workshops.
10:30-10:50 Break
11:00-12:30 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 1
(The session 1 workshops will be repeated in session 2.)
Forest Issues Choices:
#1 introduction to Forest Ecology,
Prescribed Burns, Clearcuts, and certification.
#2 Introduction to Forest Economic.
#3 Specific Economic Study: Green
Fire/Heartwood Economic Impact Study in the Wayne National Forest.
#4 Prescribed Burning Issues (for those
already somewhat knowledgeable on this issue.)
Energy Issues Choices:
#1 Introduction to Local and Regional
Coal Issues & explore the whole coal cycle.
#2 Introduction to the Community Impacts of Coal.
#3 Issue of Coal Fired Power Plants, led by John Blair.
#4 Nuclear Power Issues
12:30-1:45 Lunch: Tempeh sloppy Joes, Raw Snow
Peas, Spring Potato salad with mint and peas
1:45-3:15 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 2
Repeat of all Session 1 workshops.
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Forest/Energy Skill Building Workshops Session 3
#1 Tree Climbing Dale Wallace,
#2 Forest Monitoring David Maywhoor,
#3 Waste Issues Where Does It Go? Jeff Stant,
#4 Climate Issues 1Sky - Liz Butler,
#5 Working with Municipalities to Stop Coal Fired Power Plants,
#6 Market Campaigns Alliance for
Appalachia, Dogwood Alliance, ForestEthics
#7 Bio Mass Issues Mike Ewall and Denny Haldeman
5:00-6:00 Self Reflection Time or Movie Time or
Therapeutic Touch or Body Recuperation Massage Polarity Work
6:00-7:00 Dinner: Crumbs Bakery Ramp pasta with
Chris Schmiel's wild mushroom pasta sauce,
Roasted Veggies, Arugula salad w/ Raspberry
vinaigrette dressing and Italian bread, Vegan Tiramisu.
7:00-8:30 Music and Keynote Speaker
Music by Steve Free
Speaker Harvey Wasserman, Solartopia: Our Coming Green-Powered Earth
9:00-11:00 Music and Dancing: John Simon and Friends
11:00 Music and Dancing continued: Mothman
Sunday, May 25 General Goals: Sustainability & Cooperative Strategies:
6:30 Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Warm, fresh, homemade
granola, rice or cow’s milk, fruit, yogurt & biscuits with soy protein gravy.
9:00-9:20 Introduction to the Day’s Activities & Announcements
9:30-10:45 Sustainability Workshops Session #4
Sessions to introduce these topics:
#1 Introduction to growing Ginseng -
Chip Carroll with United Plant Savers! and Randi Pokladnik
#2 Principles of Environmental Justice Charlie Fredrick
#3 David Coyte Small Scale Hydropower,
Solar Power and Wind - Third Sun Solar and Wind,
Geoff and Michelle Greenfield plus Mark Donham
#4 Community Rights-Based Organizing and
Local Democratic Self-Governance Shireen Parsons
Session for people who want to work on (participated in) these topics:
#5 Emerging Corporate Campaigns RAN Alliance for Appalachia
#6 Permaculture Successes Rhonda Baird
#7 Successful Community Models ACE-Net,
Community Food Initiatives-CFI, Lost River
Community Coop, Pine Mountain Settlement School .
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Sustainability Workshops Session #5
This is a repeat of Session #4 workshops
12:30-1:45 Lunch: Black Bean Soup, Portuguese
corn bread, green salad w/shredded roots & miso
dressing or vinaigrette, pawpaw sorbet.
Also during lunch - Chris Schmiel Paw Paw Plenary
1:45-5:00 Field Trips, Hikes and workshops either at the camp or off site.
Off site field trips / hikes:
Shawnee Forest led by John Howard and Cheryl Carpenter
Permaculture Farm Field Trip led by Robert Klouman
At home composting led by Liska Kunn, her property is next to the camp.
Rock Run, part of the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System
Tree Identification - at the camp may be one or
two sessions held - times to be announced
2:00-3:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #6
#1 Principles of Environmental Justice
#2 Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Matt Reitmann, Sonia Marcus, Head of Ohio
University's Resource Conservation Office -
"Tackling Climate Change on a College Campus"
#3 Current Corporate Campaigns Scot
Qaranda, Dogwood Alliance & Linda Wells, ForestEthics
3:30 4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #7
#1 Body Work Chris Keller
#2 Self Care… “Cloud Watching On A Horizontal Plane”
5:30- 7:00 Dinner: Veggie Curry with coconut
milk, vegan cole slaw, chocolate cake &
strawberry coconut milk ice cream (vegan).
7:00 7:30 Keynote speaker: Nancy Stranahan -
Arc Of Appalachia Preserve System
Sunday evening activities will be at a farm next
to the camp where alcohol is allowed.
7:30-8:30 Heartwood Benefit Auction & Keg Tapping Ritual
8:30 until? Talent Show! Danny Dolinger Master of Ceremonies
Monday, May 26 General Goals: Cooperative Strategies and Action Planning
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Wild mushroom frittata;
parsnips & potato hash; vegan biscuits with hemp
& poppy seeds and nutritional yeast gravy; fruit.
9:00-10:30 Discussions about Future Actions and
Campaigns and key note speaker Brock Evans.
10:30 - 10:40 Break
10:40- 11:30 Presentation by Albert Bates, author
of Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times
or
10:40- 11:30 Memorials and Megan Hollingsworth grief work/ discussion
11:30 to 12:30 Closing Circle: Final thoughts, big ideas, and looking forward
12:30-1:30 Lunch: The weekend’s culinary hits revisited
1:00 Collective Action and Memorial Tree Plantings
www.heartwood.org/forestcou...index.html
Save the Date for the 18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council, Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-26, 2008, to be held at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio.
Online Registration coming by next week. Download PDF Brochure: www.heartwood.org/forestcou...ochure.pdf
We would like to invite you to the 18th annual Heartwood Forest Council, to be held Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26, 2008, at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio. Hosts for this years event include Heartwood, the Buckeye Forest Council, Save Our Shawnee Forest, Voices for the Forest, Meigs Citizens Action Now!, Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests, and EarthWatch Ohio. The theme of this year's Forest Council is "Burning Issues: Climate is a Forest Product."
What is the Heartwood Forest Council?
The Heartwood Forest Council is the largest annual gathering of citizens from across the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern United States who care about the health and well-being of our nation's forests. This will be the second time this event has taken place in Ohio, the first being at Camp Oty Okwa in 1992. We will focus on threats to our region and to human and community health, in an atmosphere of collaboration designed to form stronger personal and organizational connections. While addressing the issues we face and celebrating the work that we do, the Forest Council offers participants an opportunity to identify lasting solutions and proven action steps that will move us as a community toward a shared vision of a healthy, just, and sustainable society.
The program will begin the afternoon of Friday, May 23, and continue through mid-day, Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day), and will be interspersed with ample social time, leisure, lively local music, dancing and great food. The Forest Council will be family friendly - kids of all ages are encouraged to attend.
This year's Forest Council will explore how we can nurture sustainable local and regional networks and a culture of cooperation and care. Together we will identify viable alternatives to the dominant economy and its toxic legacy of waste and prepare ourselves with the knowledge and tools to protect ourselves, our communities, and our planet. The program will consist of three days of workshops, discussions, keynote speakers, and field trips. Key program elements will include:
* Forest Issues: public lands management, roadless and other special areas, prescribed burning on state and national forests, genetically modified trees, sustainable forestry and low impact logging, land certification, and land management strategies and opportunities including the value of non-timber forest products.
* Coal, air, energy and climate issues: coal mining and processing, including mountaintop removal, room and pillar, and longwall mining, coal-fired power plants, air pollution and global climate change. We will also talk about resurgent efforts to promote nuclear power, the alternatives to fossil fuel such as wind, solar and hydropower, and the connections between forests and energy production including cellulosic ethanol and biomass.
* Sustainability issues: creating viable communities and taking responsibility for our own future; localized economies, permaculture, local and regional food production and distribution, alternative energy and transportation, traditional uses of plants and their preservation, religion and environmental protection, alternatives to the corporate control of food and seed supply; and how to sustain our minds, bodies and spirits as we seek environmental justice and transformational change.
18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Program
Theme: Burning Issues Climate Is A Forest Product
Program Tracks:
1) Forest Issues
2) Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives
Where: Camp Oyo Shawnee State Forest - Ohio
When: Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26, 2008
Weekend Schedule:
Friday, May 23 General Goals: Introductions and Reunions
Afternoon hike - Shawnee State Forest/Park Hike
led by Kevin Bradbury - Regional Manager Shawnee and Adams Lake State Parks.
5:30-7:00 Dinner: Vegetarian Gumbo with tofu hot
dogs, brown rice, roasted asparagus, Salad
greens, vegan Cornbread, Strawberry shortcake.
7:00-9:00pm - Forest Council welcome:
Ernie Reed - Heartwood
Barb Lund - Save Our Shawnee Forest
David Maywhoor - Buckeye Forest Council
History of the Shawnee Forest:
Shawnee Nation Reflections - Dr. Cora Tula Watters
Lower Scioto Valley history Dr. Andrew Lee Feight
Flora and Fauna of Shawnee - Kevin Bradbury & Jenny Richards -
9:15 til? Campfire behind the dining hall for
planned and unplanned music, and spontaneous revelry
Saturday, May 24 General Goals: Explore the
Issues: Follow one of the tracks or do some of both:
Forest Issues - physical and economic issues
Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives
6:30 - Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Baked Omelet with asparagus,
feta, ramps, fresh herbs with green tomato salsa,
Vegan Paw Paw cornmeal pancakes OR vegan Paw Paw
Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup,
Tempeh/potato sausages (vegan) or sun choke latkes, Fruit
9:00-10:30 - General Introduction to the
workshops’ “burning issues” by the leaders of the workshops.
10:30-10:50 Break
11:00-12:30 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 1
(The session 1 workshops will be repeated in session 2.)
Forest Issues Choices:
#1 introduction to Forest Ecology,
Prescribed Burns, Clearcuts, and certification.
#2 Introduction to Forest Economic.
#3 Specific Economic Study: Green
Fire/Heartwood Economic Impact Study in the Wayne National Forest.
#4 Prescribed Burning Issues (for those
already somewhat knowledgeable on this issue.)
Energy Issues Choices:
#1 Introduction to Local and Regional
Coal Issues & explore the whole coal cycle.
#2 Introduction to the Community Impacts of Coal.
#3 Issue of Coal Fired Power Plants, led by John Blair.
#4 Nuclear Power Issues
12:30-1:45 Lunch: Tempeh sloppy Joes, Raw Snow
Peas, Spring Potato salad with mint and peas
1:45-3:15 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 2
Repeat of all Session 1 workshops.
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Forest/Energy Skill Building Workshops Session 3
#1 Tree Climbing Dale Wallace,
#2 Forest Monitoring David Maywhoor,
#3 Waste Issues Where Does It Go? Jeff Stant,
#4 Climate Issues 1Sky - Liz Butler,
#5 Working with Municipalities to Stop Coal Fired Power Plants,
#6 Market Campaigns Alliance for
Appalachia, Dogwood Alliance, ForestEthics
#7 Bio Mass Issues Mike Ewall and Denny Haldeman
5:00-6:00 Self Reflection Time or Movie Time or
Therapeutic Touch or Body Recuperation Massage Polarity Work
6:00-7:00 Dinner: Crumbs Bakery Ramp pasta with
Chris Schmiel's wild mushroom pasta sauce,
Roasted Veggies, Arugula salad w/ Raspberry
vinaigrette dressing and Italian bread, Vegan Tiramisu.
7:00-8:30 Music and Keynote Speaker
Music by Steve Free
Speaker Harvey Wasserman, Solartopia: Our Coming Green-Powered Earth
9:00-11:00 Music and Dancing: John Simon and Friends
11:00 Music and Dancing continued: Mothman
Sunday, May 25 General Goals: Sustainability & Cooperative Strategies:
6:30 Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Warm, fresh, homemade
granola, rice or cow’s milk, fruit, yogurt & biscuits with soy protein gravy.
9:00-9:20 Introduction to the Day’s Activities & Announcements
9:30-10:45 Sustainability Workshops Session #4
Sessions to introduce these topics:
#1 Introduction to growing Ginseng -
Chip Carroll with United Plant Savers! and Randi Pokladnik
#2 Principles of Environmental Justice Charlie Fredrick
#3 David Coyte Small Scale Hydropower,
Solar Power and Wind - Third Sun Solar and Wind,
Geoff and Michelle Greenfield plus Mark Donham
#4 Community Rights-Based Organizing and
Local Democratic Self-Governance Shireen Parsons
Session for people who want to work on (participated in) these topics:
#5 Emerging Corporate Campaigns RAN Alliance for Appalachia
#6 Permaculture Successes Rhonda Baird
#7 Successful Community Models ACE-Net,
Community Food Initiatives-CFI, Lost River
Community Coop, Pine Mountain Settlement School .
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Sustainability Workshops Session #5
This is a repeat of Session #4 workshops
12:30-1:45 Lunch: Black Bean Soup, Portuguese
corn bread, green salad w/shredded roots & miso
dressing or vinaigrette, pawpaw sorbet.
Also during lunch - Chris Schmiel Paw Paw Plenary
1:45-5:00 Field Trips, Hikes and workshops either at the camp or off site.
Off site field trips / hikes:
Shawnee Forest led by John Howard and Cheryl Carpenter
Permaculture Farm Field Trip led by Robert Klouman
At home composting led by Liska Kunn, her property is next to the camp.
Rock Run, part of the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System
Tree Identification - at the camp may be one or
two sessions held - times to be announced
2:00-3:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #6
#1 Principles of Environmental Justice
#2 Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Matt Reitmann, Sonia Marcus, Head of Ohio
University's Resource Conservation Office -
"Tackling Climate Change on a College Campus"
#3 Current Corporate Campaigns Scot
Qaranda, Dogwood Alliance & Linda Wells, ForestEthics
3:30 4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #7
#1 Body Work Chris Keller
#2 Self Care… “Cloud Watching On A Horizontal Plane”
5:30- 7:00 Dinner: Veggie Curry with coconut
milk, vegan cole slaw, chocolate cake &
strawberry coconut milk ice cream (vegan).
7:00 7:30 Keynote speaker: Nancy Stranahan -
Arc Of Appalachia Preserve System
Sunday evening activities will be at a farm next
to the camp where alcohol is allowed.
7:30-8:30 Heartwood Benefit Auction & Keg Tapping Ritual
8:30 until? Talent Show! Danny Dolinger Master of Ceremonies
Monday, May 26 General Goals: Cooperative Strategies and Action Planning
7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Wild mushroom frittata;
parsnips & potato hash; vegan biscuits with hemp
& poppy seeds and nutritional yeast gravy; fruit.
9:00-10:30 Discussions about Future Actions and
Campaigns and key note speaker Brock Evans.
10:30 - 10:40 Break
10:40- 11:30 Presentation by Albert Bates, author
of Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times
or
10:40- 11:30 Memorials and Megan Hollingsworth grief work/ discussion
11:30 to 12:30 Closing Circle: Final thoughts, big ideas, and looking forward
12:30-1:30 Lunch: The weekend’s culinary hits revisited
1:00 Collective Action and Memorial Tree Plantings
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