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.

Written by Maddie Eberly, Forest Stewards Guild

Article originally posted on MassWoods website.

Written by Hannah Wagner; originally posted on the National Association of State Foresters website.

We have an exciting announcement to make! Right now, there are more women leading state forestry agencies than ever before. Thirteen female state foresters out of a total of 59 might not seem like a triumph, but it is.

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.