Women Like Us

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?

Women Owning Woodlands is hosting four webinars in May based on “Women on the Land: A Landowner’s Guide to Stewarding Her Woodlands.”

Register here!

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 Dakota Wagner; photos by Corinna Steinrueck

EmpowerU is a program developed out of the University of Minnesota Extension to address audience feedback and frustration about working with - or more accurately, not feeling comfortable approaching - decision makers. 

ForestHer NC has reached 1,000 people across the state, empowering landowners to better manage their land for birds and wildlife.

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 (

Wednesday, September 9, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET

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