KANE — This year’s Roach Bauer Forestry Forum is scheduled for Oct. 5 at the Kane Country Club.

Reservations are required, and those received on or before Sept. 21 are $25; reservations after that will be $30. The night of the event, registration will be held from 5:30 to 6:30, at which time dinner begins.

The program will be “invaders in our thickets.” Lisa Williams, the ruffed grouse and webless migratory game bird biologist for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, will speak about her work on assessing the effects of West Nile virus on grouse and other birds.

Dr. Scott Stoleson is a research wildlife biologist at the forestry science lab of the Northern Research Station in Irvine. He and his cohorts first recognized the impacts of the spotted wing drosophila fruit fly on berry production several years ago. He will speak about the fly, called drosophila suzukii. The spotted wing drosophila affects soft fruit from shrubs and tree fruit crops.

Contact Allegheny Hardwood Utilization Group at 837-8550 or email hardwood@penn.com for more information or reservations.