Woodland Stewards Regional Landowner Education Program

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About this program:

The purpose of the program is to empower woodland owners to promote environmental and forest health through increased awareness, experience and access to resources. The educational program was developed through a collaborative team of forestry Extension personnel to serve a multi-state audience. This program is now in its sixth season. Each season has a theme, and its four to six webinars will fit within that theme. All webinars are relevant to forest landowners across the entire South.

Promote the Live or Archived Webinar Series to Your Clientele 

You can promote this series to your clientele directly, and we can share a participant list with you after the fact. In addition, all of the recorded webinars can be used for program delivery through zoom or social media. 

Webinar Delivery Platform:

Webinars are hosted via ForestryWebinars.net, and were delivered by the Zoom webinar platform.

Fees:

There is no fee to host the course. A fee at the local level can be charged and collected by the host to cover cost such as food, local advertising, etc.

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Evaluation data from the series:

The Woodland Stewards regional landowner education program was collaboratively developed by eight different Extension organizations and completed its fifth year of programming in February 2023. The goal of the program was to empower woodland owners to promote environmental and forest health through increased awareness, experience and access to resources. Each year more than 1,000 participants have joined the webinars, have rated the program highly, and the majority indicated that they would recommend it to others.

 
Overall quality of the program: 3.5/4

participants would recommend the
webinar series to other landowners
99% of participants felt the information was easy to understand
3.4/4 participants felt the information
presented was relevant to their needs
Participants averaged a 21% increase in knowledge related to the
topics of the webinar
Nearly 100% of attendees said that they now know who to contact if they have questions about their woodlands, as a result of this workshop
42% of all participants plan to contact a natural resource professional within the next three months
participants indicated collectively owning over
79,492
acres
 
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