Enhancing Habitat

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Tailgate Tree Party...

Article by guest author Pam Wells
How tailgate tree parties with professional teams helped create a detailed forest management plan, 180 acres of pre-commercial thinning, roadwork repair, and the hope of stream habitat improvement for salmon and trout.

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Women and Our Woods Workshop

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Sat, Jul 30, 2016 - 9:00 am

until 4:00 pm

Women and Our Woods Workshop for Women Woodland Owners

Hidden Valley Nature Center 131 Egypt Rd., Jefferson, ME 04348, July 30, 2016, 9:00-4:00

$45 ($40 for HVNC, Midcoast Conservancy, MOFGA, MFLT members), $25 Students Scholarships available!!

Women and Our Woods

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Women and Our Woods Workshop

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Sat, Jul 30, 2016 - 9:00 am

until 4:00 pm

Women woodland owners at a Forestry for Maine Birds workshop

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Foresters for the Birds

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Forests along the Atlantic Flyway provides critical nesting and breeding habitat for countless warblers, thrushes, and other familiar feathered friends seeking a summer home.Learn how forest stewardship can enhance the health of our forests, local wood economies, and priority songbird populations.

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Kirtland's Warbler

By: Guest author

If you want to hear this bird sing, you need to maintain a unique forest habitat...young Jack pine trees.

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Keys to Creating Great Wildlife Habitat

By: Nicole Strong

Woodland owners and managers have many reasons for owning land; enjoying wildlife and providing wildlife habitat consistently rank as one of the most important values. The following article will give you a couple ideas of how you can make sure you are creating the habitat you want.

Maine Forest Service district forester Patty Cormier teaches women woodland owners about tree measurement

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Women and Our Woods - Wednesday Workshop in Wells, ME

By: Amanda Mahaffey

On Wednesday, March 25, the Forest Guild led a workshop for women woodland owners in York County, Maine. The workshop was hosted by the Wells National Estuarine Reserve. Presenters included Amanda Mahaffey, northeast region director for the Forest Guild; Patty Cormier, a district forester for the Maine Forest Service, and Nancy Olmstead, invasive plant biologist for the Maine Natural Areas Program.

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Let’s Go Herping

By: Lauren Grand

Mid-January is the start of amphibian (frogs, toads, and salamanders) breeding season! So, leave those fuzzy slippers by the door, put on a pair of mud boots or waders if you got ‘em, and go herping!

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Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Pocket Guide

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Pocket Guide by Lynn Levine
A waterproof, 44 page pocket-size book, with life-size illustrations (Yes, even the bear!) It’s a guide that’s great for tracking through all seasons.

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Chestnut Fever

By: Amanda Subjin

Leila Pinchot, Women and Their Woods graduate and PA landowner, writes about her family's property in Milford, PA where she and her father are working to reintroduce the American Chestnut to the Milford Experimental Forest.

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The New Life in Dead Wood

By: Nicole Strong

Conservationists estimate that up to 20 percent of forested wildlife depends on dead wood like snags and down logs for food, habitat, or cover. Within normal healthy woodland they are essential features, but they are often missing from more regularly maintained forests. It is just too easy to dismiss that log as potential firewood, rather than giving it the chance to live up to another potential simply by leaving the log where it lies.

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A Moose in Winter

By: Renée E. D’Aoust

"To my mind, we’ve had an increase in wildlife since recent logging by our neighbors, and we’ve also had an increase in wildlife traversing our land because of the dense forest of the USFS. Wildlife is not unfamiliar around our parts. We’re near the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness, so there are large tracks of land for black bear, grizzly, elk, deer, moose, and all sorts of little critters."

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Women Owning Woodlands Weekend Workshop

By: Guest author

Fri, May 31, 2019 - 12:00 pm

until 12:00 pm

Come join us to learn about tending your woodlands! At West Virginia's beautiful Watoga State Park & Calvin Price State Forest in Pocahontas County May 31 to June 2, 2019

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Women and Their Woods Spring Workshop

By: Amanda Subjin

Sat, May 4, 2019 - 9:00 am

until 3:00 pm

Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Women and Their Woods graduates and guests, and Northern Tier Hardwoods Association in Lake Ariel, PA as we learn Chainsaw Safety with a Game of Logging instructor and invasive species management techniques with a landowner. Bring a camp/folding chair, a lunch, dress for the weather, and bring a gas-powered chainsaw if you have one.

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Women in the Woods Workshop & Retreat

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Fri, Apr 26, 2019 - 5:30 pm

until 3:00 pm

Spend a weekend connecting with other women landowners, learning woods skills taught by women for women, and enjoying leisure activities in Western Montana’s historic Nine Mile Valley!

APRIL 26-28, 2019
Begins at 5:30pm on Friday the 26th and concludes at 3pm on Sunday the 28th

Learn how to:

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Woodland Management Workshop

By: Guest author

Sat, May 4, 2019 - 9:00 am

until 12:00 pm

Please plan to join us on Saturday May 4, 2019. Today's Topics will include:
Tree Identification, Elements of a Management Plan, and Forest for the Birds

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Women and Our Woods workshop

By: Amanda Mahaffey

Sat, Apr 27, 2019 - 8:30 am

until 4:00 pm

Join us for an action-packed day at Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine for a full program of engaging, hands-on classes for women woodland owners and outdoor enthusiasts!

Yellow-billed cuckoos are now rare in the western US. Photo courtesy of Melissa McMasters/Flickr.

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How to Manage Your Land for Threatened and Endangered Species

By: Guest author

Kiera Quigley, National Association of State Foresters summer intern and Fisheries & Wildlife undergrad at Michigan State

Since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, private landowners have had to be more thoughtful about what species might be living on their property and how certain activities can affect them. Very often, the presence of a threatened or endangered species on your property can be a benefit rather than a hindrance. Protecting the biodiversity of your land increases its overall health, productivity, and aesthetic value.