August 1, 2012 – North Carolina State University’s Forestry & Environmental Outreach Program is co-sponsoring a series of four workshops for private forest landowners called the Woodland Steward Series: Mountains Program. From its inception in 2003, which marked the official re-opening of the Biltmore Forest School, the series has helped promote a healthy environment by educating private landowners about land management.

The first two workshops were very successful. The final two will occur August 15th – August 17th at Bent Creek Experimental Forest, Asheville, NC, and the Cradle of Forestry, Brevard, NC.  They will be led by natural resource and land management specialists, and will include both hands-on activities in the field and instruction in the classroom.

For more information or to register online visit: www.ncsu-feop.org/woodlandstewards. Please contact Addie Thornton, Course Coordinator, with any questions or concerns at: addie_thornton@ncsu.edu or 919-515-9563.

More details:

• Workshop 3: Woodscaping Your Woodlands and Firewise Management, August 15 – 16
• Workshop 4: Stewardship, Recreation, and Liability, August 16 – 17
• On-line Registration form
• Workshop flyer

The Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) will hold its 35^th annual meeting September 10-12, 2012 in New Bern, North Carolina at the Doubletree Riverfront Hotel. The theme of the meeting is “Engineering New Solutions for Energy Supply and Demand”. The local host of the meeting is North Carolina State University’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources.

The annual meeting features oral and poster presentations, and a local field tour; all pertaining to research/technology of forest engineering. The meeting serves as a showcase for innovation, and is a fertile atmosphere for problem-solving and networking. Online registration and payment are available. See the meeting web site for full details: http://www.ncsu-feop.org/COFE/.

COFE is an international organization with the goal of fostering the development of forest engineering in industry, government, and in university teaching, research, and extension programs to promote the best methods of managing and operating forests; to serve the forestry profession on matters of policy in the area of forest engineering; and to disseminate technical information on forest engineering subjects. For more information about COFE, visit: http://www.cofe.org/