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From food to trails, learn practical skills for your outdoor adventures! Enjoy outdoor recreation clinics, kids' activities, vendors and exciting outdoor prizes. Forestry activities include saw and forestry demonstrations, cross cut saw history and demo, and ribbon cutting event for the Rib Lake School Forest Trail.

Do you want to become more informed on chainsaw operation and maintenance? Join this women’s only class and study with chainsaw experts. This workshop will introduce various saw models and sizes, showcase accessories and personal protective equipment, practice starting saws safely, and review chainsaw anatomy and maintenance. Pre-registration is required by May 4 at 11:55 […]

Foresters and land managers have many management tools at their disposal. A tool that’s often overlooked is prescribed fire. Prescribed fire for forest management is important for ​ecosystem health, forest regeneration, wildlife habitat, forest health, and disease control. Join the Wisconsin Forestry Center for insightful discussions with national experts as we discuss forest management using […]

Managing maple stands for sustainable sap production presents unique challenges. The sentiment that you “don’t cut sugar maple” could use some critical thinking and review. In this workshop, we will explore maple sugaring, state and federal policies regarding sugarbush management, and timber marking for sugar maple stand improvement. This workshop will begin at The Club […]

The Aldo Leopold Foundation is thrilled to welcome Joe Lamp’l, the passionate voice behind Joe the Gardener, to Land Ethic Live! for an inspiring conversation on how gardening can be a powerful act of restoration. Rooted in the spirit of Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, this conversation will explore how everyday gardeners can be conservationists, using […]

The Maple Hour is a webinar series for Wisconsin maple enthusiasts. Each program features a timely topic, guest speaker(s), and live Q&A. You can sign-up for upcoming programs and watch recordings from the Maple Hour archive below. Scott Bowe, UW-Madison Professor and Forest Products Specialist in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and Superintendent […]

Learn About Your Land is a UW-Madison Extension Forestry program intended for Wisconsin woodland owners. The series of classes introduces landowners to forestry topics and local DNR foresters. These classes will be held both in person in Chippewa Falls, WI and online. All classes will run 1.5 hours with the last 30 minutes reserved for […]