Improving Forest Health

Details are finalized for our Game of Logging courses this fall, with Northeast Woodland Training.

Merck Forest will be offering a Women's Only Game of Logging course for Level One on September 28th. Participants receive training and certification in precision felling techniques, safety checks, and chainsaw best practices. Tuition cost is $180 per person, and we offer accommodations in our Barn Cabins for people who may be traveling from a distance at the rate of $10 / person / night.

Trees provide shelter and food to the wildlife that live on your land, they hold the soil and protect it from erosion, they provide the air we all breathe, products you use everyday come from tree, and they provide us a place to walk, enjoy the peace and quiet we find in nature.  However trees take decades to grow tall and strong.  Are you preparing your woods for the next generation of trees?  Are your woods healthy?  Learn about how to evaluate your woods. 

Then make your woods healthier with these activities:

Save the Date!

More details at www.DelawareHighlands.org/watw

Tour a Managed Family Farm. 

Saturday, the 29th of June 2019

10:00 AM to Noon. 

This tour of a multi-generational family farm in northern Rhode Island is geared towards women who are interested in learning more about what is involved in managing woodlands and how to get started. 

Please plan to join us. Bring your questions about woodland management and we'll do our best to answer them. 

Note: Though the program is geared towards women, men partners and co-owners may also attend. 

Deer Management for Forest Landowners and Managers is a new book offering case studies, illustrations, and stories that can help guide decisions in managing deer populations among many other objectives.

Women's Chainsaw Safety 101

Come join us to learn about tending your woodlands!

 

In the last 20 years, about one new species of beetle has landed on North American shores each year, imported from other parts of the world. The arrivals come mostly in wood pallets and other packing materials.

Please join us for a Michigan WOW Women in the Woods Women's Chainsaw Safety Demonstration!

Saturday, April 13, 9:00a-1:00p

Invasive species ID 9:00a

Safety Demo 9:30a

Woods Walk 10:30a

Invasive Removal Work Day 10:30a

REGISTRATION & MORE INFO:

https://www.inghamconservation.com/events

FREE! Coffee & snacks included. Please RSVP!

This women-only workshop will be held at private property with 142 acres of land in Hardwick NJ and begins at 8 am. Topics will address forest health, best management practices, financial benefits of protecting the forest, including forestry stewardship plans and stewardship assistance programs.

Come join us to learn about tending your woodlands! At West Virginia's beautiful Watoga State Park & Calvin Price State Forest in Pocahontas County May 31 to June 2, 2019

What can you do about it? The terms “resilient” has become a favorite of foresters looking to describe what our forests need to become in order to cope with the threat of drought and related stresses.