Northeast

Women landowners across the eastern United States (and beyond) have an incredible new resource at their fingertips in the form of the Women on the Land: A Landowner's Guide to Stewarding her Woodlands.

October 14 and 15, 2023

8am - 4pm each day

Saturday location: George Washington State Campground and Management Area (2185 Putnam Pike, Chepachet, RI 02814)

Sunday Location: Snake Den Farm (90 Brown Avenue, Johnston, RI 02819)

 

For more information or to register, Contact: Paul Dolan, RI RC&D Area Director, 401-500-0399, [email protected]

Please register early as the course is limited to 10 participants.

May 24, 2023

Dort Road Natural Area
Surry, NH 03431

Learn more here!

Written by Marcus Wolf. Originally posted on the University of Maine's website, November 18, 2022.

To recruit more women for careers in the forestry industry, particularly the bioenergy sector, University of Maine researchers have devised a road map.

April 29th, 2023

10 am - 2 pm

Belvidere, Vermont

Register here!

Photo of Deborah Perkins, author.

Originally shared by the Maine Forest Service on February 21, 2023

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

5:30 to 7:00pm ET

What you need to do to be ready to attend:

Register for the Webinar with RI RC&D (more info below)
Watch Part 1 and Part 2 Videos
As you watch, write down your questions
Joining us in our Zoom webinar to answer your questions are:

Wednesday, January 25

6:30pm – 7:30pm ET

Online

(Above photo shared by Tessa McGann) Hale, left, and Tessa discuss forestry in the field.

Written by Maddie Eberly, Forest Stewards Guild

 

Blue Hill Heritage Trust, Great Pond Mountain Conservancy, and Maine Woodlot Owners Downeast Chapter are offering a Forestry 101 comprehensive short co-ed course in the Spring of 2023 for small woodlot owners, or for anyone who would like to learn about the forests of eastern Maine. The course will comprise of 6 four hour sessions, both indoors and in the field. The indoors portion of the course will be located at the Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery in Orland, Maine and the outdoor sessions will be location on BHHT and GPMT land in Orland, Ellsworth, and the Blue Hill Peninsular.

Photo above depicts Dr. Antomia Farrell welcoming 500 women forest stewards to the Congress.

By Amanda Mahaffey, originally posted on the Women Forest Congress's blog