University Park, PA – June 20, 2014 -- Mark your
calendars for the 2nd Private Forest Landowners Conference: The
Future of Penn's Woods, March 20-21, 2015
at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The biennial conference,
hosted by The Center for Private Forests at Penn State and its partners, focuses on helping
private woodland owners understand how to steward their lands for a mix of
values and needs.
Pennsylvania has almost 750,000
woodland owners making decisions on 11.5 million acres of forestland. Seventy percent of the nearly 17 million acres of forested land in the state is owned by private individuals. Many of these
owners (approx. 500,000) hold 10 acres or less (the average is just 3 acres),
but big or small, the decisions all private woodland owners make about their
forests affect the well-being of our state’s namesake -- Penn’s Woods.
From suburban backyard habitat to
large properties with a focus on hunting or income, woodland owners want to do
well by their land. Opportunities to learn and understand our options and
possibilities help ensure that good decisions demonstrating care for the land
are made.
Whether your woodlot is one acre or
several thousand, we hope you will join us for this day and a half conference
where you can learn about your property and how it contributes to habitat,
water quality, and woodland diversity. Your land is part of
a larger landscape where we connect with each other and together we care for
Penn’s Woods.
If you are a woodlot owner in Pennsylvania or beyond and want to learn more about your woods click here.
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