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

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 XVIII - Protection and record keeping

Total Time:

Goals:

- To give information about the protection of vivero from animals, disease, weeds and insects.
- To go over record keeping practices once again.
- To have trainees decide on standard record keeping format.
- To summarize week long activity of establishing a vivero.

Overview

This session completes the technical training in establishing a forest nursery. Trainees will have the satisfaction of having planned, laid out, prepared soil and finally sowed the seeds in their own nursery. Also record keeping is gone over and trainees decide on a standard format for keeping nursery records. Protection of a nursery is discussed in depth.

Exercises:

1. Lecture on protection and summary of week's vivero activity.
2. Record keeping practices - decision making.

Exercise I: - Protection of Vivero and Summary of Week's Activities

Overview:

This is the final exercise focusing on establishing a nursery. Trainer will give lecture on protection and summarize steps taken in the establishment of a nursery (there is additional time allotted in this session if nursery beds are not yet sown).

Procedures

Time	Activities
30 minutes	1. Technical trainer gives lecture on protection from outline posted on newsprint. Outline follows:

Protection

1. Small animals (animales pequeños)

a. mice/rats (rates y ratones)
- rat poison (veneno) cats (gatos)

b. rabbits (conejos) sling shots (hondas)
c. chickens (gallina, gallos)

2. Large animals (animates grandes)

a. goats/sheep, (chivos, ovejas, baorrego)
b. pigs (chanchos)
c. cows (vacas), horses (caballos), cattle (ganado)
d. dogs, etc. (perros, etc.)

3. Birds

a. sowed seed (la semilla sembrada)
b. new seedling (la planta nueva)
c. as control - insects (como control - insectos)
d. bird control (control de aves)
1. chemicals (quimicos)
2. screens (pantalla de tela metalica)
3. sling shots (honna)
4. tin cans (latas)

4. Disease - damping off

a. pre-emergence
1. sterile soil
2. sun and sterile sand
3. keep pH moderately acid
4. boiling water

b. in roots upper part of roots infected, plants fall over, stems turn watery inside.
1. water schedule?
i. less often
ii. time of day
iii . chemicals

5. Weed control (control de maleza)

a. herbicides
b. other
1. boards (tables)
2. burlap (arpilera)
3. straw (paja)

c. weeding
1. weed early: late weeding is very costly
2. use in compost

6. Insects (insectas)

a. grub worm (eats roots)
b. cut worms
c. aphids
d. nematodes
e. spiders, mites, thrips

Exercise II - Record Keeping

Total Time:

1 hour 45 minutes

Overview

This exercise stresses the importance of record keeping; ask what data the trainees have and how they are going to record it. Finally, trainees will go through a decision-making process about standardizing a record-keeping method and preparing a form.

Procedures

Time	Activities
10 minutes	1. Technical trainer starts this session by saying "remember yesterday when I asked you who was keeping records for the vivero?" Trainer then makes remarks about the first exercise Oil record keeping and its importance. Trainer now has two choices; he can (1) congratulate the participant or participants that have taken responsibility for keeping records or (2) make the point that participants must take responsibility for keeping records, realizing that all parts of training build one on the other.
10 minutes	2. Trainer now asks group what data they need to record for the vivero they have just established. Trainer records data titles on newsprint.
	3. Trainer now says "I feel you are ready to decide on a standard format for recording nursery data. Please do so."
Trainer's Note: No directions are given about procedure or how to break into group(s). Trainers remain in room and observe trainees organizing the project.
15 minutes	4. Trainer comments on the organization process which he and other trainers have just observed. Ask for comments from trainees about their own feelings over the last hour.
10 minutes	5. Trainer now makes remarks about data recording form, additions and/or deletions.