UW-Stevens Point CNR Summer 2013 Newsletter for website .pdf

Faculty, staff, and outreach highlightsMore than 700 people attended the spring Candlelight HikeFestival at Schmeeckle Reserve. The event featured torchlit trails, a campfire program, free crafts and snacks, andhands-on discovery stations. This free community event isheld every spring and fall, and each festival has a differenttheme. The theme for the April 26 hike was “The Wondersof Pollination.” The event is made possible by the efforts ofmore than 50 student volunteers and Schmeeckle Reservestudent employees.Lynn Markham, UW-Extension shoreland and land usespecialist with the Center for Land Use Education, andNancy Turyk, a water resources scientist with the Centerfor Watershed Science and Education, hosted a communitypresentation on Saturday, Feb. 23, to discuss changes tothe Portage County Shoreland Zoning Ordinance and theirpotential affect on property, lakes, rivers, fish populationsand wildlife. A draft of the changes is posted on thePortage County Zoning website at http://co.portage.wi.us/planningzoning/new/current-projects.Students in the environmental education and interpretation practicum present acharacter campfire program at the spring Candlelight Hike Festival at SchmeeckleReserve, dressing up as hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies.Photo courtesy of Schmeeckle Reserve13Karyn Biasca, professor of paper science and engineering, has been named the new Paper Science and EngineeringDepartment Chair after the former chair, Gerry Ring’s, retired in May.The National Park Service and the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals presented Wisconsin the StatewideComprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) Excellence Award on May 23 at the 2013 National OutdoorRecreation Conference in Traverse City, Mich. Primary authors of the Wisconsin SCORP included Anna Haines,professor of human dimensions of natural resource management and director of the Center for Land Use Education;David Marcouiller, professor, state extension specialist, and department chair of urban and regional planning atMadison; and Jeffrey Prey, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. You can find the plan on the Wisconsin StateParks website at http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/planning/scorp.Ron Masters, associate professor of wildland fire science, had his research, “The importance of shortleaf pine forwildlife and diversity in mixed oak-pine forests and in pine-grassland woodlands”, highlighted in the April 2013Newsletter for the Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium.RetirementsAga Razvi, professor ofsoil and waste resourcesretired in August.Gerry Ring, professor of paperscience and engineeringretired in May.Stanley Szczytko, professor offisheries and water resourcesretired in December.CNR News