North Shore landowners!
We are currently planning a North Shore landowners conference for either April or May 2012. Watch this site for updates or sign up for email updates on the right.
The current Lost Foresters invite you to take a look at their vision of the North Shore in 2060. Click here.
Lost Forest Project Background:
Over the past year, 13 landowners have been taking part in our Lost Forest program.
Participants are enjoying:
- Enjoy a 60-hour customized Woodland Advisor training program.
- Receive a certified Forest Stewardship Plan for their land.
- Receive tree planting assistance from a Minnesota Conservation Corps crew.
- Have access to a mini-grant fund to pay for forestry work
- Receive access to genetically appropriate nursery stock
The project will started in September 2010 and will run through June 2012.
Interested? Registration is now closed. Watch for future opportunities.
Class topics included:
- Growing and tending tree seedlings
- Tree identification
- Insect diseases and tree growth
- Financial care of your land - easements, land transfer, taxes
- Climate change - how will it affect the North Shore
- Measuring and reading your forest
- Non timber forest products
- GPS/GIS
- Wildlife diversity
- Timber sales
For more information call or email Molly Thompson at 218-525-0001 or sugarloaf@boreal.org
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Sugarloaf: The North Shore Stewardship Association
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Office: 6008 London Road | Duluth MN 55804 | 218-525-0001 | sugarloaf@boreal.org