Women Like Us

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.

By Liz Bailey

Sarah DeMay is a fire professional and land steward whose experience with wildland fire, both personally and professionally, gives her a unique perspective and motivation to be a resource for other landowners in New Mexico.

2100 Pilot Knob RoadMendota Heights, MN, 55120United States (map)

Where: Indian Heights Park, 1800 Terracewood Dr NW, Rochester, MN 55901 (map)

Why: This walk will focus on meeting new people and learning together.

By Gloria Erickson, as told to Ashley McFarland. Reposted from Minnesota Women’s Press. See the original article here.

This is the second in a series of WOW Entomology publications. Each publication highlights a common insect impacting forests in a particular region of the United States, paired with an interview of a woman landowner who has had to address that insect in managing her forest.

By Lauren Larsen, Natural Resources Educator, Wisconsin

Can you tell me about your work in forestry and in wildfire?

By Dakota Wagner; photos by Corinna Steinrueck

I’m a regular contributor to WOWnet, a professional forester, a mom of two boys, but not a woodland owner. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic my family adopted a local, neglected woodlot and got to pretend it was ours by working hard, creating a socially distanced community and making the world--we hope--a little better.

This is the first in a series of WOW Entomology publications by Molly Norton Darr and Leonora Pepper. Each publication will highlight a common insect impacting forests in a particular region of the United States, paired with an interview of a woman landowner who has had to address that insect in managing her forest.

Meet Regine Skelton, County Forester for the Arkansas Department of Agriculture – Forestry Division, District #5 (

This arrived in my inbox today and I wanted to share it with this group from https://foreststewardsguild.org/enews/celebrating-two-women-in-forestry-during-womens-history-month/ 

Celebrating two women in forestry during Women’s History Month

March 17, 2020