Kittredge, D.B., M.G. Rickenbach, T. Knoot, E. Snellings, A. Erazo. 2013. It's the network: How personal connections shape decisions about private forest use. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30 (2): 67-74. 

Most private landowners do not have management plans or avail themselves of professional advice prior to the sale of timber. We designed a pilot study to determine the extent to which they rely on social networks of…

See this article on the power of the network!…

Congratulations Amanda Kueper on a nice article in Society and Natural Resources:

Learning from Landowners: Examining the Role of Peer Exchange in Private Landowner Outreach through Landowner Networks

Abstract:  More than one-third of forested land in the United States is owned by individuals or families, making these lands a significant source of the nation's forest resources and services. Yet investments…

Dear Colleagues,



On behalf of the guest editorial team, led by myself and comprising Paolo Cerutti, Dr. Anna Larson, Dr. Jukka Tikkanen, Dr. To Xuan Phuc and Dr. Patrick Meyfroidt, I would like to officially welcome all contributions to this special issue in the International Journal of Forestry Research, focusing on forests managed by smallholders (e.g., individuals, families, communities) and their impacts at…

Social Networks and Social Network Analysis: A Partnership Network Peer Learning Session

October 17, 2012, free online event organized by the National Forest Foundation.  Details at http://nff.wildapricot.org/Default.aspx?pageId=471105&eventId=557874&EventViewMode=EventDetails

What are social…

The traditional "forestry community" continues to try and "sell" forestry through conventional programming that teaches landowners how to do it or why it is important [or where their 2x4s come from...]. Relying on forestry "experts" to "show them the way". 

But this blog post from the Harvard Business Review suggests traditional approaches to marketing and "selling" are now irrelevant  and suggests some alternatives.   Many of which I think are appropriate for the promotion of forest…

great new article in the Open Journal of Forestry!   by Jillian R. Schubert and Audrey L. Mayer. 

see:   http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojf/

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A nice brief article from Nicole Strong in the April 2012 Journal of Extension:

Abstract: Pest Scene Investigators is a new Oregon State University Extension education program designed to provide current Master Woodland Managers with specialized knowledge and skills in forest health assessment, diagnosis, and management. Seventy-nine volunteers participated in this pilot program…

This post from Beth Kanter will surely be of interest to many WON members.  The term "peeragogy" itself, referring to the study of "self-organizing peer learning in networks," captures an idea that's at the center of much of our work with woodland owners:  http://www.bethkanter.org/peeragogy/

An excerpted quote from Howard Rheingold:…

Recently, a national group of researchers headed by Nicole Strong of Oregon State University Extension received a grant from the USDA Cooperative Extension Service to fund a project aimed at building a nationwide network focused on assisting women who own woodlands, and a curriculum for growing local peer-learning groups for women woodland owners, based on the successful Women Owning Woodlands Network in Oregon.  Below, Nicole answers some questions…

I would like to know if anyone is using Flickr.com or other photo gallery websites as a social networking tool for forestry. 

Last year some naturalists here established a Hawaii Plant ID group on Flickr. See: 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/hawaiiplantid

Anyone can post photos of an unknown plant to the group and people will try to identify it. With 96 members of the group as of today, most plants are…

Call for Papers Small Scale Forestry 2012

From Science to Solutions: Solving Small-scale Forestry Issues

September 24-27, 2012. 

From urbanization to…

Here's a link to a nice story about women learning about their woods in Pennsylvania, USA.  It's a 7-minute audio story, a shorter version of which ran twice during drive time on PA public radio this fall.  Thanks to…

Congratulations to our own Shorna Allred and coauthors on publication of an article that's sure to be of interest to many in our group: Evaluating Peer Impacts of a Master Forest Owner Volunteer Program, Journal of Extension, October…

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While enjoying my contemplative moment this morning with my oatmeal, I browsed a magazine and came across this brief 2-page article on health care spending in the US. Apparently the US spends more than any other country on health…

Greetings!…

Studies have shown us that landowners include both peers and professionals in their information networks.  But when and why do landowners prefer to use peer information sources over professional ones, and vice versa?

A recent multi-case study of five diverse landowner organizations performed by researchers at the University of Minnesota (some key findings are summarized here) yielded…

Hello, I have posted a small article about the portuguese ZIF law in my WON page. Read it, and if you find interesting please comment here. Thank you!

The article is available here: https://www.box.net/shared/s1o8rfrj60mjoq73dg36