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Seminars

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Steuben County's 5th annual Southern Tier Outdoor Show on October 8-9 at Wilkins RV, Route 415, Bath will bring a host of professional seminars on numerous outdoor topics to the area. The seminars are offered free to every person attending the show.

The lineup of presentations includes:

• 10 a.m. Sat & Sun: Paul H. Daniels, Jr. of the New York State Big Buck Club will show his audience how to score and harvest deer. He will be scoring trophy animals brought to the show for free at booth #60.

• 11 a.m. Sat & Sun: Jeb McConnell, Wildlife Technician, NYSDEC will discuss the natural history of black bears in New York State, including information on what they eat, and their reproduction habits. Learn about the conflicts of bears and humans, how to limit future events, and the DEC's involvement with bears including on going research study to determine home ranges of females compared to males. The presentation is full of great photos and little interesting facts that most people are not aware of when it comes to bears.
  
  Jeb studied for two years at Finger Lakes community College before transferring to SUNY Cobleskill where he received his bachelors degree in Wildlife Management. He started with the DEC in June of 2009 as a Wildlife Technician and specializes in the monitoring of our collared research bears. To this date he has handled over 2 dozen bears in the Region and has also worked closely with coyotes and short-eared owls.

• 12 Noon Sat: Ron Hausfelder, Deer Search, Inc. - Finger Lakes Chapter will hold an indoor seminar on Saturday and on Sunday will set out a blood trail demonstration at Booth #110.

• 1 p.m.  Sat & Sun: Roy Butler, NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer and owner of Four Winds Renewable Energy will discuss the misconceptions about solar and wind energy. Four Winds is a family-owned business located on a windy 70 acre hill top in the Fingerlakes Region of New York State. Roy first started working with renewables in 1971, worked for several years in the construction trades and established Four Winds in January of 1997. Four months later he cut the power lines and took his home and business off-grid, quickly learning the value of every watt! By combining the use of energy efficient appliances with a conservation-oriented life style, he was able to reduce his daily power usage from 33,000 watt-hours to 6,000.

• 2 p.m. Sat & Sun: Gary Socola, former President of the New York Bowhunters Association will discuss the best ways for women/girls to get started into the sport of bowhunting or archery. He will cover exercises that can be done to help strengthen muscles, the best way to practice, types of equipment, the shift in the marketplace to outfitting women in the outdoor sports, minimum hunting requirements for bowhunters in New York and more. He will have some examples of equipment for woman archers on hand and have a question and answer period.

• 3 p.m. Sat & Sun: Gerry Rightmyer, Vice President of Forever Wild Outdoors Video Productions will discuss do-it-yourself food plots for deer and tell the story of “Grandpa”, one of the largest whitetails killed in North America (a 272 2/8" Kansas giant non-typical whitetail.)
  

• 11 am & 1 p.m. Sat & Sun: Country Hospetality Lodge & Pet Pantry’s Deana Wolfe, the local “Dog Whisperer” will present free animal training tips and live clicker demonstrations. Your dog may be selected to participate!

• 2 p.m. Sat: Land Trapping, Mt. Top Trapping will show the techniques of trapping.

• 3 p.m. Sat & Sun: National Wild Turkey Federation will offer an unofficial turkey calling contest. Come try it!

• 11 a.m. Sat: Jim Beverly Retriever Trainer will discuss retrievers, duck and goose hunting.