The University of Wisconsin Forestry Extension programs offer a wide variety of educational programming and materials for woodland owners. This website provides access to many of these initiatives.
Learn About Your Land
Internet Series
Here is your chance to get the same information you could get from the Learn About Your Land classroom sessions right from the comfort of your home. Click here to learn more.
WoodlandAssistance
This site is designed to help new private woodland owners achieve their management goals. Information is provided on a variety of topics from hands-on information to successfully manage for recreation, wildlife, and timber to the history of Wisconsin’s forests. Site visitors can listen to other woodland owners discuss their experiences.
WoodlandWorkshops
Learn About Your Land woodland owner classes are taught by professionals in woodland ecology, forest health and management, timber harvesting, and related topics. Woodland Owner Conferences bring landowners and forestry experts together to share experiences and learn about the latest in sustainable forest management.
WoodlandLeadership
The Master Woodland Stewards, Woodland Leadership Institute, and COVERTS programs provide Wisconsin’s woodland owners with advanced training in sustainable forest management. In addition to applying their skills to their own lands, graduates are encouraged to help others in the community with their forest management goals.
PublicationsOver the years, many informative and useful publications, fact sheets, and other printed materials have been created to assist private woodland owners. This website brings many of them together and organizes them to help you find the information you need to understand and manage your land.
For more information, please contact Bill Klase, UW-Extension Basin Educator for Natural Resources at 715 365-2658 or via email by .
Banner photos: Pine seedling, wild geranium, wild turkey, logs, yellow warbler - Jeff Strobel; hunter - courtesy of Wisconsin DNR.