Penn State Extension is offering a webinar series, Woods in Your Backyard, on Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m., January 17 through March 13. The series is meant to help individuals, landowners, land managers and conservation organizations create and enhance natural areas around homes and make a positive environmental impact through simple stewardship practices.

 

Participants will learn about reasons to manage forests; forest ecology; creating and managing wildlife habitat; identifying and controlling invasive plants; forest health issues and management; forests and water; selecting native trees for various sites; establishing meadows and forests; and creating plans for their property.

 

Each registrant by January 10 will receive the full-color, 108-page manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home, a $29 value, plus access to the webinar recordings.

 

Registration is $50 at Extension.psu.edu/woods-in-your-backyard-series.