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Friday, May 30, 2003
REGISTER NOW FOR FOREST CERTIFICATION WORKSHOP
While forest certification has become an important tool for achieving excellence in forest management along with providing commercial incentives for managers and landowners to adopt sustainable forestry practices, questions about the practice remain. A new workshop from The Woodland
School, howe... Continued...
Friday, May 23, 2003
Making the Farm Woodlot Pay
Making the Farm Woodlot Pay
workshop June 7
On Saturday, June 7, 2003 at 10:00 AM, the Kickapoo Woods Cooperative will sponsor a workshop on the farm of Dawn and Vince Hundt northeast of Coon Valley. The event is designed to give farmers information on how they can improve the value of the f... Continued...
Minnesota ReLeaf Offers Grants for Your Community Trees!
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in partnership with Tree Trust, is accepting proposals for Minnesota ReLeaf grants for 2003-2005. Funded by the Legislative Commission for Minnesota Resources, ReLeaf is a matching grant program that provides up to $15,000 to local
units of gover... Continued...
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Minnesota Co-op Association Praises Passage of New Cooperative Law
May 19, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Minnesota Will Serve as a Model for the Nation
Minnesota cooperative leaders are praising state lawmakers for approving legislation late last week aimed at helping cooperatives throughout Minnesota modernize and expand.
“This legislation will pr... Continued...
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Knowing (and Monitoring) Your Woods: Walk and Workshop
Sat. May 31, 10 am to 2 pm
Sat. May 31, Kickapoo Woods Cooperative will host a workshop near Rockton in Vernon County where resource managers and lovers of the forest will use the art of keen observation to learn more about the ecosystems in their care. The plants and animals found in the woo... Continued...
Thursday, May 8, 2003
Tree Tips--Saturated Soils and Creep--5/1/03
"Saturated Soils..." printed in the Mendocino County Observer.
Saturated Soils and Creep
With our late spring rains, the "flooded" signs came out on some of the county's back roads. That was a very clear sign that, just like a sponge reaches a point where it can't absorb more water, so too... Continued...
Collaborating for Sustainability by Warren Gaskill
The second Sustainable Forestry Improvement Collaborative had its final joint session March 21-22 in Minneapolis.
Both Joint Session I (Dec. 6-7) and the March meeting were held at the 100-acre Silver Lake Camp and Conference Center. This 5-month collaborative targeted the topic of “Deploying Memb... Continued...
SWC Closing its Doors, Wiser for its Efforts by Warren Gaskill, SWC President of the Board
The Sustainable Woods Cooperative – the first organization of its kind in the U.S. to combine cooperative ownership and FSC certification standards with value-added processing of lower grade woods – is closing its doors in the spring of 2003.
The Board and members of SWC approved its current cours... Continued...
Corner on Ecology: Partners....for 500 Million Years! by Gigi La Budde
Paleontologists theorize that the evolutionary leap of plants from ocean to land was accomplished by plants forming a symbiotic relationship with fungi. Today, 90% of all plants are associated with fungi in the soil, and 80% could not survive without their fungal partners.
Although some fungi ca... Continued...
Across the Forest Landscape: Developments in Cooperation
Living Forest Cooperative
Despite the cold, 40 people participated in a horse logging field day the LFC sponsored this January. The demonstration provided a great opportunity to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of horses in the woods, safe operation with horses on logging jobs, and the b... Continued...
Finding the 'Right' Balance to Build a Successful Co-op by Harry Groot
In December 2002, Harry participated in a meeting of the Sustainable Forestry Improvement Collaborative as part of efforts to develop a Forest Landowner’s Cooperative in the central Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. With support from CFRC and the Appalachian Forest Resource Center, Harry extended hi... Continued...
Sustainable Forestry is Green Living: CFRC at the Living Green Expo by Lesley White
The 2003 Living Green Expo, highlighting “ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane practices or products,” attracted an estimated 11,200 people to the MN State Fairgrounds over the weekend of April 12th and 13th.
This second annual Expo presented over 180 exhibitors, as ... Continued...
Not on My Land: Identification and Control of Invasive Woodland Plants
9AM – Noon, June 7, 2003, Kellogg, MN
This workshop will help forest landowners and resource managers learn to identify and control some of the most problematic plants that are invading woodlands in our area. These invasive plants are changing the composition and structure of our natural commun... Continued...
Forest Stewardship Council Certification Awarded to Forestry Center of IATP
Ts.Press Release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
May , 2003
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Phil Guillery, 612-870-3456, pguillery@iatp.org
Upper Midwest Landowners to Benefit From Program
Minneapolis - An international certification body has officially certified ... Continued...
Thursday, May 1, 2003
Character Wood Demonstration Field Day
The Woodlands Cooperative is pleased to invite you to a
Character Wood Demonstration Field Day!
The goal of the field day is to introduce area woodland owners to the concept of character wood, how to identify and harvest character wood in their own wood lots and to present the potential for c... Continued...
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