The Metro Area and Northeast chapters of the Minnesota Women’s Woodland Network co-sponsored a women’s chainsaw safety class on March 18. The class was taught by chainsaw safety instructor and logger, Alex Bildeaux of Bildeaux Services.
Villa Maria Woods Walk
Saturday, July 25, 2015 we took a "woods walk" with consulting forester, Katie Himanga, at the historic Villa Maria in Frontenac to see how the timber stand improvement and woodland management techniques we learned at our Tuesday meeting apply in a real-world setting.
Bee Talk and Woods Walk
On June 26, 2015, Metro Area MNWWN member Debra Donath, along with husband Kent, hosted us to learn about honey bees. We were also able to tour her 23-acre property near Welch to learn about their land management practices involving tree planting of white pine, oak, and walnut and their two prairie restoration sites.
Goats for brush control. How about hogs?
At our Metro Area MNWWN gathering in October 2014, we discussed this topic.
Goats are being used in MN on many projects. Here is a link to a local SE MN company that rents their goats for buckthorn and other vegetation management needs: http://goatdispatch.com/.
Also, check out these links for more information on this topic:
Goats - Conservation Minnesota 2014: https://www.conservationminnesota.org/newsstream/goat-grazing-as-an-alternative-tool-to-invasive-plant-management/
Goats - River Bend NC 2014: http://www.southernminn.com/faribault_daily_news/news/local/article_38cad234-3694-571f-af92-f4c5070912df.html
Goats - Strib 2013: http://www.startribune.com/local/south/222820581.html
Goats - MPR 2013: http://blogs.mprnews.org/statewide/2013/08/goats-have-an-appetite-for-buckthorn-in-se-minnesota/
Hogs - North Central SARE: http://www.northcentralsare.org/Educational-Resources/From-the-Field/Minnesota-Producer-Experiments-with-Hogs-to-Control-Buckthorn