RANGELEY – The topic will be “Forestry Entomology” at the Wilhelm Reich Museum Sunday nature series at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 27.

Allison Kanoti will do a walk and talk that focuses on tree and forest insect and disease identification and biology.

Kanoti has been working for the Maine Forest Service for two years as a forest entomologist.

Her duties focus on quarantines, which include the pine shoot beetle (which has been found in Rangeley), gypsy moth, (also known to be in Rangeley) and hemlock woolly adelgid (only in York County).

Kanoti has a master’s degree in forestry from University of Maine and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in forest biology. She has used tree ring analysis to look at balsam woolly adelgid impacts in Downeast Maine.

Kanoti has worked for the U.S. Forest Service and Maine Forest Service forest inventory projects. She did her field work in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Participants will meet at the outdoor classroom at 2 p.m. The classroom is located at the top of the driveway at the Orgonon property, to the left of the Observatory parking lot. Follow the trail marked “tomb” for a short distance. All the Sunday nature programs are free.

The observatory is open Wednesday through Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. in July and August. Adult admission is $6; children under 12, free.

For more information, contact Thelma Thomas at 864-5360 or the Wilhelm Reich Museum at 864-3443.