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.
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.
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.
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.
UW-Madison Extension Forestry is excited to announce upcoming women woodland owner events in the Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, and Iron County area! We are partnering with women natural resource professionals and local landowners to provide opportunities to:
Hosted by University of Illinois Extension, Missouri Women Owning Woodlands Network, and Iowa Women’s Woodland Stewardship Network. Sponsored in part by donations from Iowa Tree Farm and Illinois Tree Farm.