Idaho forest stewardship programs to be offered

Roughly 40 percent of the forests in Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, and Benewah counties are owned by family forest owners.

Over the next year, University of Idaho Extension is again conducting a series of 19 forestry educational programs at 23 locations throughout northern Idaho, to help strengthen family forest owners’ abilities to manage their forest land to meet their goals.

Topics to be covered in this year’s Strengthening Forest Stewardship Skills series include: forest management planning, forest insects and disease, tree identification, rural land ownership, tree planting, forestry cost-share programs, forest measurements, backyard forestry, thinning, pruning, stream restoration, and more.

The programs will be held through August 2019. Calendars listing specific program dates and locations are available at local University of Idaho Extension offices.

Detailed information on each of the programs is posted on the University of Idaho Extension Forestry website (uidaho.edu/extension/forestry/programs), six weeks ahead of each program. For more information on specific sessions in the series, contact Chris Schnepf at 208-446-1680, Randy Brooks at 208-885-9663, or Bill Warren at 208-476-4434.

Strengthening Forest Stewardship Skills is part of the Idaho Forest Stewardship Program, a cooperative effort of University of Idaho Extension, the Idaho Department of Lands, U.S. Forest Service, and many other agencies and organizations.