This event, which will target small, minority and limited resource forest landowners and be held on March 8, 2011 in Americus, Georgia at the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

Session Topics will include:

-Hunting Leases
-Wills and Estate Planning
-Timber Management and Marketing
-Timber Sales for Maximizing Profits
-Cost Share Programs for Landowners
-Land Surveying and Property Boundary Lines

The goal of the workshop is to educate landowners about management strategies that will maximize forest productivity. A range of topics, including Longleaf Pine restoration and compatible income opportunities, will also be discussed.

To register for the event, e-mail Maureen Lucas at FVSU. complete contact information can be found on the March 8 Land Management Workshop Flyer.

NWF is also planning additional forest landowners’ workshops and field days throughout the year in Georgia. Future events including schedules and locations, will be posted on our website.

These activities are made possible with the generous support of the Sapelo Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

The Chattahoochee Forest by Andy Coan

The National Wildlife Federation, Fort Valley State University Cooperative Extension Program, and the Landowners Initiative for Forestry Education (LIFE) have partnered to host a landowners’ workshop titled “Managing Your Land for Profit.”

This event that will be targeting small, minority and limited resource forest landowners will be held on November 16, 2010 in Talbotton, Georgia at the Shady Grove Baptist Church.

Session topics will include:

• Hunting Leases
• Wills and Estate Planning
• Timber Management and Marketing
• Timber Sales for Maximizing Profits
• Cost Share Programs For Landowners
• Land Surveying and Property Boundary Lines

The goal of the workshop is to educate landowners about management strategies that will maximize forest productivity.  A range of topics, including wills and estate planning; cost share programs; longleaf pine restoration and compatible income opportunities; timber management and marketing will be discussed.

To register for the event e-Mail Maureen Lucas at FVSU (complete contact information can be found on the November 16 Land Management Workshop Flyer).

NWF is also planning additional forest landowners’ workshops and field days throughout next year in Georgia. Future events (schedules and locations) will be posted on our website.

These activities are made possible with the generous support of the Sapelo Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Recently, all hibernating bears have either drastically shortened their hibernation period or neglected to hibernate at all. Although seemingly minor, this change in behavior leads to many problems. When bears come out of hibernation early, the reliable food supply they are expecting is nowhere to be found. This forces them to either make an unhealthy shift in diet, ravage premature plants and animals before the population can grow, or worst of all, die of starvation.

Scientists attribute this behaivor shift to global warming, suggesting warmer winters entice bears to delay hibernation and encourage them to wake up earlier.

We have a perfect opportunity to stop this crisis before it happens.

On Thursday, October 1st, concerned Americans will be calling their U.S. Senators, urging them to dedicate funding to protect wildlife and natural resources in the The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act–a bill designed to curb the impacts of climate change and invest in clean energy technologies.

Let us know if we can count on you to call.

Scientists have only just begun answering the mysteries surrounding hibernating bears. How do they convert toxic urea into protein, enabling them to not urinate for months? (If humans held it for that long we would die!) How can bears reduce their heart rate to 1/5 its normal rate during hibernation without causing brain or heart damage? (Humans would have heart failure.) How is it possible for bears to remain immobile for months and wake up good as new without muscle or bone loss? If a human is bedridden for the same amount of time, his bones will become brittle and he’d loose enough muscle mass to make walking extremely difficult. If these questions are answered, the medical resources and potential cures for human medical conditions are innumerable.