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Coeur d'Alene, ID - Men in beards and flannel move over, women are headed into the forest for the 2nd Annual Women in the Woods Field Day on May 10 in Sandpoint.
While the event is open to everyone, this opportunity provides a wide range of training geared for women by women foresters to give them hands-on experience, inspiring more active participation in managing family-owned forests.
This event will be run by women foresters from the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) and the University of Idaho Extension (UI Extension) but will include women instructors from a variety of different agencies. The Kaniksu Land Trust will be sponsoring lunch and hosting the event at Pine Street Woods community forest.
“We had a fabulous event in April with nearly 30 attendees participating in Women in the Woods Workshop,” said Erika Eidson, IDL Forest Health Specialist and workshop co-host. “Landowners brought in photos of their forest and received personalized management assistance from the fleet of instructors."
"The field day is another opportunity to interact with professional women foresters on the ground," she added. "We will work in small groups so it’s easy to ask questions and gain confidence in managing family forests."
There are new topics and tracks this year including forest management and forest ecology and the plan is to offer new topics each year. This year participants may choose to focus on one area for half of the day.
Attendees will be out in the woods, rotating through different exercises covering forest assessment and forestry work on the ground.
Attending the previous workshop is not a requirement.
What: Women in the Woods Field Day
When: May 10, 2024
Time: 9 AM – 3 PM
Where: Pine Street Woods
11915 W. Pine Street
Sandpoint, ID
Cost: $10 registration fee
Lunch: Will be provided
Scheduled activities include:
Field stations will include
- Tree identification
- Insect & Disease
- Tree measurements & marking
- Forestry tools
- Thinning and pruning
- Wildfire safety
- Understory plants
- Wildlife habitat
- Soils
Please register online by May 3 by going to https://otc.cdc.nicusa.com/Public2.aspx?portal=id&organization=Clearwater%20County%20Extension%20-%20Adult%20Programming. Under Transaction Item select Women in the Woods, Field Day.
Please direct questions to Audra Cochran at audrac@uidaho.edu or 208-937-2311.
 
Women in the Woods Field Day 2023
Women in the Woods Field Day 2023
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