Roughly
40% of the forests in Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai and Benewah
counties are owned by family forest owners. Over the next
year, University of Idaho Extension is conducting a series
of 13 forestry educational programs at 26 locations
throughout northern Idaho, to help strengthen
family forest owners' abilities to manage their forest land
to meet their goals. Topics to be covered in this year’s
Strengthening Forest Stewardship Skills series
include: forest management planning, conservation easements,
landowner successional planning, forest measurements, home
wildfire protection, forest health, adaptive silviculture,
thinning and pruning, using global positioning systems
(GPS), pruning to reduce white pine blister rust, and more.
The programs will be held from
November, 2009 through July, 2010. Calendars listing
specific program dates and locations will be available at
local University of Idaho Extension Offices this fall.
Detailed information on the programs will also be posted on
the University of Idaho Extension Forestry website (www.cnr.uidaho.edu/extforest).
For more information on specific sessions in the series,
contact one of the following University of Idaho Extension
faculty: Idaho panhandle: Chris Schnepf, 446-1680;
north-central Idaho: Randy Brooks, 476-4434;
southern-Idaho: Ron Mahoney
or Yvonne Barkley, 885-6356.
Strengthening Forest
Stewardship Skills
is part of the Idaho Forest Stewardship Program, a
cooperative effort of University of Idaho Extension, the
Idaho Department of Lands, U.S. Forest Service, and many
other agencies and organizations.
