By Leslie Robertson NASF Foundation photography fellow Today I met up with Jean Devlin, an Education Program Specialist in the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) communications department with whom I went on yesterday's timber tour. We left for the Elk Country Visitor Center, a three-hour drive away, but not before stopping at my [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow Today was very unique; we followed timber from its original harvest site all the way to a final finished wood product, custom-built cabinets. After a lovely breakfast at the local Wellsboro Diner, we met up with the group at the Penn Wells Hotel and Lodge and headed to Ole [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow After visiting the Penn Nursery, we headed to Susan Benedict’s Forest Stewardship Property. The property has been the Benedicts’ for generations; the family currently owns over 2000 acres of land, and many years ago they had over 5000! Susan and her family showed us around the property with the [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow This morning Andy Duncan, a Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), Bureau of Forestry program specialist, picked me up from my hotel and we drove up to Penn Nursery near State College. There we met up with Jeff Woleslagle, DCNR forestry communications section chief. Fran Chadick, one of the nursery [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow Today I headed over to the DNR’s office to meet with Ken Holman, the DNR Community Forestry Director, where we planned out the day. I was also able to meet many of the leaders in the DNR office and say hi, which was great! Our first stop was at [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow I woke up early on Thursday and headed to St. Croix State Forest. St. Croix suffered from a blowdown on July 1, 2011. Although I could see parts that were still suffering from those injuries to the trees and land, I could still see a lot of life and [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow I spent the morning at the NewPage Duluth Paper Mill. Communications Director Kalee Hermanson was an excellent tour guide and showed me around many of the interesting parts of the paper mill. The mill runs year-round and produces paper for magazine-style inserts. I was able to see their massive [read more]
Blog post by Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow This morning I headed over to the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids. Since we were on a tight timeline, the site manager Jeff met me and showed me around via golf cart. The Forest History Center consisted of a Visitors Center with various exhibits and artifacts [read more]
By Leslie Robertson NASF Photo Fellow Today I met with Amy Kay and Laura from the Department of Natural Resources who explained the week to me and set me up with my Prius. I drove from St. Paul, MN three hours upstate to Paul Bunyan State Forest. I met with a third generation tree harvester [read more]
