Center for Private Forests
The Center for Private Forests focuses on applied research, education and outreach to students, forest landowners, the forest-products industry, loggers, conservation districts, agencies, land trusts, nongovernmental organizations and the public.
Vision
Ensuring the health and vitality of forested landscapes.
Mission
Continuously improve the health and vitality of private forests.
Engage the public, landowners, and natural resources professionals, as a community, to apply sound stewardship practices to care for forest ecosystems.
Cultivate a model for applied excellence in sustaining our forests, drawing upon leading research and the direct experience of forest landowners.
Center for Private Forests News
The Benefits of Blackberries
June 29, 2020
If you have never enjoyed a day afield collecting berries, this is the year you should try it. Nothing like socially distancing in a berry patch.
Ecological Synchrony: Keeping All the Pieces in Place
May 28, 2020
“If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not…To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” Aldo Leopold, Round River.
COVlD-19 Stimulus Benefits for Sole-Proprietors and Independent Contractors Webinars
April 8, 2020
The Penn State Extension Renewable Natural Resources team would like to announce two upcoming webinars about the Paycheck Protection Program which is a federal stimulus benefit available for small businesses affected by the novel Coronavirus.