The following is a listing of events for 2008

• Saturday, March 8, 2008
  Tri-State Forest Stewardship Conference at Sinsinawa Mound Center, Sinsinawa.  Concurrent sessions on a variety of topics such as tree planting basics, forest management practices to improve wildlife, tree diseases, marketing your timber to meet your goals, forest carbon basics and Wisconsin's private forest landowner programs and incentives.  Contact WWOA for a brochure 715-346-4798 or wwoa@uwsp.edu or online at http://basineducation.uwex.edu/woodland/conference/index.htm
   
• Saturday, May 3, 2008 - Bad Axe Chapter Field Day
  Kickapoo Valley Reserve Visitor Center
  
  On May 3rd, at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve (KVR) north of LaFarge
   (Vernon County), we'll have a morning session starting at 9:00 a.m. 
  This will  be on birds in your landscape.  The afternoon session starts at 12:30p.m. and the topic is still being negotiated.
  
  Both sessions rendezvous at the KVR parking lot restroom area.  Please bring your sack lunch and beverage.  These events are free
   
• Saturday, May 31, 2008 - Tree Farm Field Day, Big Flats, Wisconsin
  
  For additional information, call (715) 252-2001 or by email   wtfc@athenet.net
   
• June 23-25, 2008 - Great Lakes Region Forestry Conference
  Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin
  
  Crisis or Opportunity?  Sustaining and strengthening forest-based industries in the Great Lakes Region.  Additional information at www.greatforests.org (new window)
  
   
• Saturday, July 19, 2008 - Bad Axe Chapter Picnic
  
  This will be a wonderful location for our annual picnic again this year, thanks to the generosity of the Nigl family.

  10:00 am - Reception and social hour
  
  11:00 am - Program:  Our speaker is Jeannine Richards from the Aldo Leopold Center/Woodland School.  Jeannine has worked for the Aldo Leopold Foundation
  since 2003. She started as an Ecological Restoration Associate and currently serves as the Projects Coordinator, in which capacity she organizes the Woodland School. She is also involved in the Foundation's prescribed fire program on the Leopold Memorial Reserve and through the Blufflands Project. She has taught Prairie Restoration and Prescribed Fire classes.  She will be covering various aspects of forestry stewardship.
  
  Bring folding chairs

  12:00 noon - Picnic lunch

  1:00 pm -  Rudy gives a walk around/talk of his land

  Rudy's address is 18526 Marshall Road, Richland Center
  Click here for mapping instructions (will open a new window)

   

•  Saturday, August 9, 2008 - Bad Axe Chapter Field Day 10 AM - 2 PM
   Douglas Hallock Stewardship Forest - Near Millville, WI (no zip code)

  Craig Hollingsworth from the DNR will discuss different topic and the area of the forest we will be visiting has 3 types of timber sales set up, sink holes, mid project forest road building, crop tree release and walnut pruning set up, 1986 regeneration project, now ready for TSI, recently completed forest site preparation for planting and finished tree planting. The Sat. August 9 Field day site is the "Douglas Hallock Stewardship Forest", near Millville, WI

  Directions to the property need to be from two ways because of frequent flooding of the most direct route for most people:

  From Prairie du Chein, go south on Hwy 18, East, for approximately 6 miles, crossing the Wisconsin River. Immediately after crossing the Wisconsin River, turn left on County Hwy. C, following the Wisconsin River upstream for about 6 miles.  Turn right on Barker Hollow Rd. at the Millville Boat Landing Park.  Follow Barker Hollow Road south 1 mile to the Douglas Hallock Stewardship Forest.  A sign will be on the right side of the road at the turn-in to the parking lot.  Highway C is prone to flooding and being closed.

  Coming from the east, and starting in Boscobel, go west on Hwy. 133 about 9.5 miles.  Turn right on Hwy. C about 6 miles, again to Barker Hollow Rd.

  Coming from the south turn off Hwy. 18 on to Hwy. 133, near the Mount Hope water tower, about 5 miles west of Mount Ida.  Follow Hwy. 133 north about 6 miles.  Turn left on Hwy. C and follow it about 6 miles, again to Barker Hollow Rd.

   Bring lunch, shoes for walking and dress for the weather.  We will be walking to and
  from an elevation of 300' with rests for discussions about the forestry practices. 

  Click here to view a map of the field day

  AGENDA:
  
  9 AM TO 10 AM Registration, Parking, Socializing
  
  10 AM TO 12 PM Walk and talk through strip clear-cut areas,  view site preparation and tree planting areas, talk about managing forests for "Forest Interior Birds", view and discuss sinkholes.
  
  12 PM TO 2 PM Walk and talk road construction and related best management practices (BMP's), 1986 clear-cut, site preparation and tree planting site and marking for improvement cutting, walk back to parking area.
   

• Thursday, September 18 to Sunday, September 21, 2008
  WWOA 2008 Annual Meeting at The Plaza in Wausau. 
  
  WWOA has a special room block available for members.  Call 715-845-4341 and mention room block code #9562 for WWOA's special rate of $62/night plus tax.
   
• Thursday, October 16 to Sunday, October 19, 2008
  National Tree Farmer Convention at the Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon. 
  
  Visit www.treefarmsystem.org for information
   

• October 17 and October 18, 2008
  Wisconsin Walnut Council- 2008 Fall Meeting and Field Day
  
  October 17 - Meeting at Stoney Creek Inn    9:30 am to 6:00 pm
                         3060 South Kinney Coulee Road, Onalaska, WI  54650
  
  October 18 - Field Day
                        Morning - Larry Severeid's Tree Farm, Rockland, WI
                        Afternoon - Odell Anderson's Tree Farm, Leon, WI  
        
                        Click here to view the Wisconsin Walnut Council  flyer
   

• October 3 & 4th - Light on the Land Field Day at the Norskedalen near Coon Valley
  “Light on the Land” field days being held Oct. 3-4 this year at Norskedalen (just north of Coon Valley).  In the past Light on the Land has been held near Sauk City but this year it has moved north.

Click here to view the Light on the Land flyer
 

• Saturday, November 1, 2008 - Bad Axe Chapter Annual Meeting
  
  Make your reservation before October 29, 2008
  
  This years Bad Axe annual meeting is being held at the House On The Rock
  Resort, Spring Green.
  
   9:00 am to 10:am registration and refreshments
   
  10:00 Business meeting
  
  11:00 Program.
  Professor  David D. Houghton,  Atmospheric Scientist University of Wisconsin-Madison, will provide specific information and PowerPoint slides focusing on the effects of climate change on forests in Wisconsin.  Thus a presentation concept would be:
  Part 1:  Basics and "broad dimensions" of climate change
  Part 2:  Regional aspects of climate change for both observed and
  predicted changes including implications for forests and agriculture.
  
  12:00 Lunch provided by the Resort
   
  1:00 Part 2 of David Houghton's talk on climate change
  
  2:00 adjourn and Bad Axe Board of Directors meeting
  
  Cost - $15.00 per person                 Click here to make your reservation on-line
   
                                                             Click here for mapping instructions