Management Tools for my Woodland

September 10, 10am - 1pm, Upshur County (Central WV) Field Tour

Woods, Wildlife, and Woody Weeds: Meet & talk about your land with other women

Join the Conservancy at the Van Scott Nature Reserve as we learn Chainsaw Safety with a Game of Logging instructor. The training focuses on introducing open face felling and the development of techniques to safely use it. Topics covered include personal protective equipment, chainsaw safety features, chainsaw reactive forces, bore cutting, pre-planning the fell, and understanding hinge wood strength.

There are two opportunities to learn:

Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 8:30AM - 5:00 PM ET

Pilot Mountain State Park, Pinnacle, NC

 

REGISTRATION & INFORMATION: go.ncsu.edu/chainsaw101

 

Registration: 8:30 - 9 AM ET, Class: 9 AM - 5 PM ET

Come learn the basics of chainsaw safety! Topics will include:

Women Owning Woodlands Lunch and Learn virtual workshop, The Art and Science of Food Plots, presented by Dr. Becky McPeake, Wildlife Extension Specialist, with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture - Cooperative Extension Service.

JOIN US on June 7th, 2022 for TWO very special Women Owning Woodlands webinar topics ON ONE DAY, with two opportunities to watch!

 

“You and Your Woods”

5:30 PM and 7:00 PM EST, June 7th, 2022

Written by Maddie Eberly, Forest Stewards Guild

Written by Maddie Eberly, from Orono, Maine

By Sarah DeMay

The Massachusetts Women Landowner Group (Women on the Land), Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, North County Land Trust, and the Hubbardston Open Space Committee is offering a two-day chainsaw safety course to build proficiency for beginning women chainsaw users.

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

Register today for this 2-day comprehensive training. Work together alongside a small group of women and learn about safe use of this valuable tool. Topics covered include maintenance, sharpening, basic cuts, bucking, limbing and felling.

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.