University Extension

An important component to winter tree identification is the shape or silhouette of the tree.

On a colorful fall weekend in October 2011, twenty-one women landowners headed out to Camp Susque in Trout Run, PA for the inaugural Women and Their Woods Educational Retreat.

There are several online and local resources available for finding a respected forester you can hire to help meet your land management goals. Read on for details.

Across the United States, more women are becoming primary managers/owners of farms and forests, yet these women often lack the social capital, knowledge, and access to resources that allow them to be successful. An Oregon Family Forest Landowner Survey conducted in 2005 estimated that women were primary managers of 40% of Oregon’s family forests, but only comprised 20-25% of education participants and 10% of professional association membership (Cloughesy 2005).

Pennsylvania's Women and Their Woods program has a new online presence.