November is a good month to focus on gratitude and I’m grateful to announce a match campaign! We have a donation that will match your gift one-to-one –please expand this generosity today with your donation! Every nickel puts innovation into practice in the forest.
Your contributions take many forms, many of them highlighted in this month's e-news edition: donations, Stewards Circle support, organizational sponsorships, bequests, participation in collective learning such as NIFS events, a donation of book royalties to support students, and of course all the work in the woods for resilient forests and people!
Your support enables us to do great things. Thank you again and please donate now to meet our match goals and continue to create community-powered solutions for people and the planet.
NEWS FROM THE FOREST
Guild presence at prescribed fire workshops and strategic partnerships
Written by Michael Lynch, Amanda Mahaffey, and Colleen Robinson
As national support grows for addressing forest stewardship challenges created by centuries of wildfire suppression, the Forest Stewards Guild is increasing our engagement in fire networks across the country. Our staff have been involved with several regional and national prescribed fire workshops over the last couple of months.
Northwest Innovative Forestry Summit – recap 2023 event series
Written by Rhiley Allbee
The NIFS 2023 Event Series focused on highlighting experimental forests, traditional and non-traditional, and their efforts in facilitating innovation and community within forest management and research.
“Seeing the Forest for the Queers” comes from the saying “can’t see the forest for the trees.” In SFQ, we have flipped the phrase, replacing “can’t” with “can.” We are committed to equipping LGBTQIA+ identifying natural resource practitioners, professionals, and students with resources to aid in navigating their careers in forest stewardship.
Professional and Retired Professional members may now elect five new MPC members for the three-year term running January 2024 to December 2026. Look for your ballot email from earlier this week and please vote. Elections run until December 15, 2023.
Upcoming Events
Want Forest Stewards Guild members to know about an event? Have a webinar or project idea? Let us know! Email colleen@forestguild.org. Also, check out our webinar library of recorded webinars you may have missed!
Thank you to our organizational sponsors! Your support is essential to fulfilling our mission of putting the forest first.
Membership updates
The autumn edition of your Forest Steward magazine and our 2023 Annual Review are now in mailboxes! If you prefer to read them online, both will be posted soon: www.ForestStewardsGuild.org/magazine. Thank you to all who renewed this year and shared gift memberships with others.
If you currently have a gift membership, or are not a member and like our work, pleasejoin today!
We are here and happy to help with membership status, questions, and concerns. We'd also love to hear what you value about your Guild membership at any time. Send an email to membership@forestguild.orgor call 608-395-4724.
Brief note of thanks to the authors of Ecological Silviculture (and Guild members) Brian Palik, Tony D'Amato, Jerry Franklin, and Norm Johnson) for directing the royalties from their new book to a student fund at the Guild. We will use it to support the next generation of stewards through stipends for events and training events.
In memoriam: Gary McCausland dedicated his career to forestry and pushed for excellence in stewardship. As forester on Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington. Gary helped bring FSC certification to the Installation's forestry program — a significant step given the 10 million board feet a year they were harvesting. Gary's commitment to stewardship lives on in his bequest to the Forest Stewards Guild.
If you’re interested in seeing your legacy live on through the Guild and our collective work, please connect with Zander Evans (Zander@foreststewards.org)
The Guild is involved in big work for landscapes, with important partners like the Mountains Studies Institute and others in the Southwest. Check out this Storymap of the 2-3-2 Cohesive Strategy Partnership:"History and lessons from 5 million acres."
Your Autumn edition of the Forest Stewards magazine is now in mailboxes and online. The 2023 Annual Review may have made it to you by now as well and will be posted online next week.
We are happy to share member and partner news, celebrations, requests for help or collaborations. If you have notes to share with our readers, please send them to membership@forestguild.org.
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