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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

Name: Amanda Lang

Title: COO & Vice President of Client Services

Company: Forisk Consulting

Alma Mater: Warnell (University of Georgia)

 

1. What made you decide your career path?

Name: Jody Strickland

Title: Executive Vice President

Company: F&W Forestry Services, Inc.

Alma Mater: University of Georgia, Bachelor and University of Florida, Master of Engineering

 

1. What made you decide your career path?

This article appeared in the Vermont Land Trust's Summer 2019 membership newsletter. The article can be found on the Vermont Land Trust's website at https://www.vlt.org/farms/women-farming-forestry. Story written by Sky Barsch.

 

Kiersten Ahrns, Ohio DNR Division of Forestry College Intern

 

This past September marked the 5th Women and Their Woods Educational Retreat hosted by the Delaware Highlands Conservancy. The event this year was held at the Highlights Family Foundation's Workshop Facility in scenic Wayne County, PA.

Success looks like...
She had lost her husband two years before. He was always the one to do the forest management stuff while she managed horses! Now she was left without a clue of how she should manage the forest. Her plan was to just - let it be. Accompanying her friend who invited her on an informal Oregon WOWNet hike changed everything and left her in tears of relief. After talking with women on the hike who are managing forests on their own, she said she felt like she could do it too. She instantly felt she had a support network and a huge barrier was lifted. It’s amazing what a walk in the woods, with peers, can do!

by Nia Becker, Clare Conservation District, Michigan

by Jarrett Caston, Forest Service Program Specialist

 

by Jarrett Caston, US Forest Service Program Specialist

Ms. Rebecca Campbell is a woman in South Carolina who owns 36 acres of heirs’ property. Heirs’ property is land passed down without a will. Ms. Campbell didn’t know that she owned heirs’ property until after her mother’s death in 1998. In addition to Ms. Campbell, about 50 or more family members share ownership, as family heirs, with Ms. Campbell.

My husband I own a 1000+ acre forest. As a Mainer whose great grandparents relocated from Ireland to Maine for the forest industry, I have wandered in Maine forests my entire life.

Debbie Clay shares her experience of managing her newly acquired woodlands.

Thirty miles down Highway 40, in southern Virginia, the land rolls gently with endless rows of emerald green crops. Billboards proclaim:
“Peanuts – whole sale and retail! Tourists welcome!”
“We’re not nuts, but we sell ‘em”