The document “Oak Harvesting Guidelines to Reduce the Risk of Introduction and Spread of Oak Wilt” was recently reviewed, revised, and approved for use. Please begin using the revised guidelines which were implemented January 1, 2016 and can be found on the Forest Health Program’s oak wilt page under “Oak wilt guides.” A document with […]

The Michigan SAF Chapter has announced plans for their spring conference, with the theme of “People in the Forest”. The meeting will be held March 17-18, 2016, in Houghton. Registration, Vendor and Sponsor information is here… Register asAttendee Register asVendor/Sponsor   MI SAF has provided the following meeting synopsis: “Forestry is more than just good […]

Nomination information has been sent out to the 10 member organizations for 2016 nominations to the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame. Nominations are due April 1, 2016. As reported in the September 30, 2015 news post, the 2015 Forestry Hall of Fame inductees were Alvin Barden and Rachel Jordan. Those inductions were done on September […]

The Wisconsin Council on Forestry has met several times since last fall. Here are a few highlights: Work on the Dispute Resolution Process (DRP) was reviewed with discussion and motions to amend the forestry specialist and forestry expert experience qualifications from 15 years to 7 and 10 years respectively, and to clarify the DRP administrator […]

Wisconsin SAF has two active national Foresters’ Fund grants. The project to update the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame display panels is completed. It came in under the $900 budget, so we will return the excess funding to national. We also received a grant in the amount of $1,500 for the Aldo Leopold Memorial Site […]