Edwards Plateau Prescribed Burning Association (EPPBA) Field Day

July 30th, 2009 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Hosted at the Texas AgriLife Research Station - Sonora.

Cost per person:

$5.00 early mail in postmarked by July 22nd
$15.00 at the door (Please make all checks out to EPPBA and mail to PO Box 918, Sonora, TX 76950)
A Bar-B-Q lunch is provided

Events of the day include:

Prescribed burning insurance opportunities, the new EPPBA web site, current prescribed burning laws and regulations, prescribed burn research, NRCS programs and policies, and various vendors. There will also be a Prescribed Burn Board meeting open to the public.

EPPBA Field Day Agenda

8:00 am -  Breakfast for the State PBB members and Directors of EPPBA at Texas AgriLife Research - Sonora

8:45 -  Prescribed Burn Board Meeting – Texas AgriLife Research – Sonora – Dr. Lynn Drawe

10:00 - Vendor display, Demonstration of Chapter equipment, Graduate Student Posters, Coffee & visiting

11:00 -  Welcome and Introductions – Butch Taylor

11:10 - Comments from the President of EPPBA – Allen Ersch

11:20 - Prescribed Burn Insurance – Doug Rigdon

11:40 - NRCS burn policy & cost-share on fire-lines – Joe Franklin

12:00 - Lunch & Graduate Student Posters

1:00 pm - EPPBA website – Dirac Twidwell

1:20 - Leadership, responsibility, & Burn Associations – Butch Taylor

1:30 - Financial Report – Robert Moen

1:45 - EPPBA Director’s Meeting and Audit – Allen Ersch


For further information please call or email
Dr. Charles “Butch” Taylor at:
angora@sonoratx.net
325-387-3168

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