The Penn State Mont Alto faculty and students who participated in planting Trees for Tomorrow included, from left to right, Ryan Varner; Peter Linehan, associate professor of forestry; Zachary Clemens; Garrett Monn; Cameron Murphy; Craig Houghton, instructor in forestry; Donna Morelli, Pennsylvania state director for the Alliance for Chesapeake Bay; Pennsylvania Sen. Richard Alloway III; and Austin Short. Present but not pictured was Beth Brantley, instructor in forestry.
On Sept. 12, Penn State Mont Alto forestry instructors Beth Brantley, Craig Houghton, and Peter Linehan hosted nine members of the Cumberland Woodland Owners Association at Penn State Mont Alto. Rain in the forecast kept many members away but the hardiest came to discuss relevant forest management topics and learn about Mont Alto’s Forest Technology Program and projects.
Craig Houghton (right), Penn State Mont Alto instructor in Forest Technology, shows a member of the Cumberland Woodland Owners Association the natural bubbling spring near the site of the1876 Cold Springs Hotel.
Dr. Beth Brantley shows members of the Cumberland Woodland Owners Association a grove of Chinese chestnut and American chestnut trees on the Penn State Mont Alto campus.
Dr. Beth Brantley, Penn State Mont Alto instructor in Forest Technology, shows members of the Cumberland Woodland Owners Association an elongated hemlock scale, an insect that attacks eastern hemlocks.
