Forestry Training Manual: Inter-America Region (Peace Corps, 1986): Session XL

Forestry Training Manual: Inter-America Region (Peace Corps, 1986)

		(introduction...)
		Acknowledgements
		Trainer guidelines
		Training program overview
		Forestry observation guide for site visit
		Getting ready
		Conducting the training program
		Weekly evaluation form
		Session I - Welcome, expectations, and evaluation criteria
		Daily schedule for technical training I
		Session II - Special projects
		Session III - The forest of the world, Peace Corps forestry goals, the individual volunteers' roles
		Session IV - Language class
		Session V - Record keeping
		Session VI - Journal keeping and setting
		Session VII - Flowers, seeds, the beginning
		Session VIII - Spanish language class
		Session IX - Non-verbal communication
		Session X - Basic site selection, planning and layout of a nursery
		Session XI - Spanish lesson
		Session XII - Cultural values
		Session XIII - Soil preparation, seed bed sowing, and reproduction by clippings
		Session XIV - Spanish language
		Session XV - Communication through illustration
		Session XVI - Fertilizers, watering and containers
		Session XVII - Spanish language
		Session XVIII - Protection and record keeping
		Session XIX - Individual interviews
		Weekly evaluation form
		Session XX - Planting trees
		Session XXI - Spanish language session
		Session XXII - Introduction to extension
		Session XXIII - The principals of pruning and thinning learning how to make and use a diameter tape
		Session XXIV - Spanish language
		Session XXV - Volunteer's role as an extensionist
		Session XXVI - Pacing, plane table, rustic transit and compass
		Session XXVII - Spanish language
		Session XVIII - Forestry extension
		Session XXIX - Forest menstruation
		Session XXX - Spanish language
		Session XXXI - Working with groups as an extension worker
		Session XXXII - Agro-forestry
		Session XXXIII - Spanish language
		Session XXXIV - Lesson plan and use of visual AIDS in teaching
		Session XXXV - Small research projects
		Session XXXVI - Individual interviews
		Session XXXVII - Soils
		Session XXXVIII - Spanish language
		Session XXXIX - Community analysis introduction
		Session XL - Soil erosion
		Session XLI - Spanish language
		Session XLII - Problem analysis
		Session XLIII - Watershed management
		Session XLIV - Spanish language
		Session XLV - Review of expectations - Mid way
		Session XLVI - Spanish language
		Session XLVII - Species report
		Session XLVIII - Forestry issues
		Session XLIX - Spanish language
		Session L - Field trip overview
		Session LI - Ecology teams give presentations
		Session LII - Individual interviews
		Session LIII - Review of field trips
		Session LIV - Project planning: Goal setting
		Session LV - Spanish language
		Session LVI - Resources
		Session LVII - Compost heap. Insect collection. Light gaps
		Session LVIII - Spanish language
		Session LIX - Cultural shock - Are we ready for it?
		Session LX - Grafting and fruit trees
		Session LXI - Spanish language
		Session LXII - Professional approaches to interaction with host country officials
		Session LXIII - Final interviews
		Session LXIV - Graduation

Session XL - Soil erosion

Total Time:

4 hours

Goals:

- Acquaint trainees with local soil erosion problems.
- Have trainees build gully plugs for erosion control.
- Trainee who has taken this on as a special project gives brief lecture and describes activities.
- Investigate vegetation at erosion site.

Overview

In this session trainee who has taken soil erosion as special project gives brief lecture and describes day's activities. Trainees go out in the field and implement gully plug(s); investigate plant life on and near erosion site for possible planting.

Exercise I: Lecture on erosion: practical erosion control

Materials:

Shovels, local inrush, paste for weaving brush. (possible to use trees that were thinned in earlier session).

Exercise I

Total Time:

4 hours

Overview

Trainee who has previously taken soil erosion as special project, and who has field experience will give short lecture and explain activity before going into field. Then trainees will investigate vegetation and build gully plugs at erosion site.

Procedures

Time	Activities
20 minutes	1. Trainee gives lecture on site visit. Describes activity. Trainees break up into groups with forester in each group.
20 minutes	2. Trainees in groups move to erosion site; investigate and record vegetation around site. Each group records their observations.
3 hours	3. Each group moves to build gully plug as described earlier at place designated by special project trainer.
20 minutes	4. Technical trainer supervises gully plugs. When plugs are completed he/she calls groups together to discuss vegetation in area and to explore methods to be applied in erosion control.

(Fig. 59 ) LOS 3 TIPOS DE LA EROSION DEL SUELO

(Fig. 60) ESTRUCTURAS PARA ZANJAS