Great Lakes

“Keep your woods healthy.” That’s a statement that many of us in Extension often tell landowners. Unfortunately, maintaining a healthy woodland is getting more difficult because of the large number of challenges they face. 

Jumping worms are a relatively new arrival in Minnesota, joining a host of other invasive earthworms in our state. Unlike most of our other earthworms, however,  jumping worms are causing great heartache for gardeners and significantly changing home gardening practices for those unlucky enough to have discovered these lively and voracious pests.

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

Register here!

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. 

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.

iNaturalist is a great app and an online naturalist community, available for free at your smartphone store. iNaturalist allows you to quickly record your observation of anything that's ever lived (plants, animals, insects, cones, tracks, etc).

By Nichole Henger, Forestry Program Coordinator for the St. Croix River Assocation

Women Owning Woodlands | Southeast Ohio

Join us as Jarel Bartig, USDA Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Dave Apsley, OSU Extension, provide insight on the importance of oaks to our ecosystem, the threats facing our oak-dominated forests, and the efforts of the Ohio Interagency Team through the Hocking Plateau Shared Stewardship project to sustain this valuable resource.

All are welcome! Please let us know if any special accommodations are needed.