Peer to Peer Outreach to Further Landowner Assistance and Education

Program type: Master Volunteer Lead organization: Alaska CES in Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Master Wildlifer: Wildlife on Private Lands Master Wildlifer is designed for landowners, la

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Peer to Peer Outreach to Further Landowner Assistance and

Education

One of the action areas identified by attendees at the “Future of

Family-Owned Woodlands in the United States” is the promotion of effective “peer topeer” outreach programs Peer to Peer outreach and landowner mentoring programs are often successful in engaging landowners that have not

previously pursued or responded to traditional landowner assistance

Master Wildlifer: Wildlife on Private Lands

Master Wildlifer is designed for landowners, land managers, and outdoors recreationists who are interested in including wildlife considerations into theircurrent land management activities Practicing land managers will find the course valuable in highlighting alternative management approaches for wildlife in forest and farm settings

Program type: Master Volunteer

Lead organization: Alabama Cooperative Extension Service

Contact(s): Dr Glenn Glover or Jim Armstrong

Email: glover@auburn.edu or armstjb@auburn.edu

Phone: Armstrong: (334)844-9233; Glover: 334-844-1019

Website:

Alabama

Master Tree Farmer Program

The Master Tree Farmer Program is an intensive educational program

designed to introduce landowners to many of the topics associated with forest management The Master Tree Farmer courses are the only satellite broadcasts of their kind for forest landowners throughout the South Each participating state land grant university has a coordinator making

arrangements for their programs Clemson University serves as the host for the programs

Lead organization: Southern Regional Extension Forestry Office

Contact(s): Kenn McNabb

Email: mcnabb@forestry.auburn.edu

Phone: 334-844-1044

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Website: http://mastertreefarmer.org/index.html

Alaska

Master Tree Care and Woodland Stewardship

This program focuses on tree care and woodland stewardship issues for private landowners We try to provide a broad introduction to tree care and development and aspects of woodland stewardship as influenced by our cold climate and boreal forest setting We try to include contemporary issues in forest land management for the region and provide ample opportunities for discussion and development of individualized management plans for their property

Lead organization: Alaska CES in Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative

Lead organization: UA Cooperative Extension Service

Contact(s): Dr Tamara L Walkingstick

Email: twalkingstick@uaex.edu

Phone: 501-671-2346

Website:

Arizona

Arizona Master Naturalist/Watershed Steward

The Master Naturalist program in Coconino County is directed at creating a corps of well-informed volunteers to deliver quality environmental education programs and to assist in the stewardship of Arizona's natural environment This program merged curriculums with the statewide Master Watershed Stewards in the autumn of 2005, bridging on the ground research and

mitigation with education and interpretation

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Lead organization: University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension

Contact(s): Wade Albrecht

Email: walbrech@ag.arizona.edu

Phone: (928) 774-1868 x25

Website: http://azmasternaturalist.arizona.edu/

California

Master Naturalist Program 2008

Our goal is to promote awareness and citizen stewardship of natural

resources through science-based education and community service We hope

to implement our first pilot in the fall of '08

Lead organization: University of California Cooperative

The Wildlife Master Program

The Wildlife Master Program is designed to prevent or mitigate human-wildlifeconflict issues by sharing research-based information about human-wildlife interaction with community residents Volunteers complete in-depth training

on areas of wildlife damage management, nuisance wildlife regulations, registered products, exclusion techniques, and zoonotic disease transmission and then provide this information to clients who may be experiencing wildlife conflicts

Lead organization: Colorado State University Cooperative

Master Wildlife Conservationists

The Master Wildlife Conservationist Program, an adult volunteer training program sponsored by the Wildlife Division Lessons were intensive, ranging

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from the history of wildlife conservation to basic ecological principles to the effects of invasive, non-native species to the issues of hunting and trapping Program participants also learned how to present information in a meaningfulway to a wide range of audiences.

Lead organization: CT Department of Environmental Protection

Contact(s): Laura Rogers

Email: laura.rogers-castro@po.state.ct.us

Phone: 860-675-8130

Website:

http://dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/wildlife/special/past/mwc.htm

Connecticut

Coverts

Lead organization: The University of Connecticut Cooperative

Extension System and the Ruffed Grouse Society

Contact(s): Steve Broderick

Email: sbroderi@canr1.cag.uconn.edu

Phone: 888-30-WOODS

Website: http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/forest/coverts.htm

Florida

The Master Tree Farmer (MTF) Program is an intensive educational program designed to introduce landowners to many of the topics associated with forest management The Master Tree Farmer courses are the only satellite broadcasts of their kind for forest landowners throughout the South Each participating state land grant university has a coordinator making

Lead organization: University of Florida - IFAS

Florida Division of Forestry, Forest Stewardship Program

Florida Forestry Association

Contact(s): Chris Demers

Email: cdemers@ifas.ufl.edu

Phone: 352-846-2375

Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/ffws/ffwshome.htm

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Master Wildlife Conservationist Program

Since 1997 the Florida Master Wildlife Conservationist program has trained Extension volunteers to teach K-12 students and adult citizens in the

Tallahassee/Big Bend area of Florida’s Panhandle The MWC program’s

intensive, field-based training course has varied in focus from North Florida’s regional ecosystems and fauna, to disturbance ecology-based wildlife

management for private lands, to wildlife habitat enhancement for golf

courses and passive parks, to regional springshed hydrogeology and

conservation MWCs have found a niche installing and monitoring wildlife practice demonstrations on public lands and assisting with Extension

environmental education programs MWCs have staffed Environmental

Service Learning projects involving elementary and middle school classes They have staffed displays and tours at wildlife events Many have assisted agency biologists with field research or monitoring projects

Lead organization: University of Florida – IFAS Extension

Contact(s): Will Sheftall

Email: WLSheftall@ifas.ufl.edu

Phone: 850-606-5202

Website:

http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/florida_master_wildlife_conserva.htm

Florida

Master Wildlifer Wildlife on Private Lands

Lead organization: University of Florida - IFAS; Florida Division of

Forestry, Forest Stewardship Program; Florida Forestry Association

Contact(s): Mr Chris Demers or Mr William Sheftall

Email: cdemers@mail.ifas.ufl.edu or WLSheftall@ifas.ufl.edu

Phone: 850-606-5202

Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/ffws/ffwshome.htm

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FL Master Naturalist Program

The mission of the Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) is to promote awareness, understanding, and respect of Florida's natural world among Florida's citizens and visitors.This mission is accomplished in part by FMNP instructors, who teach students in the program about Florida's environment using science-based information and interpretive techniques that prepare students to share their knowledge with others

Lead organization: University of Florida - IFAS

Contact(s): Dr Martin Main, FMNP Program Leader;

Ginger Allen , FMNP Program Coordinator

Lead organization: Southern Regional Extension Forestry Office,

School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia

Contact(s): Dr Michael Thomas Mengak

Email: mmengak@smokey.forestry.uga.edu

Phone: 706-542-2686

Website: http://masterwildlifer.org/index.html

Georgia

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Contact(s): Ben Jackson

Email: bjack@uga.edu

Phone: (706) 542-9051

Georgia

Georgia Master Naturalist

Promote the understanding of forest, wildlife and natural resources

management through adult education programs designed to increase

awareness of natural process and human influences Emphasis on skill

building through learning identification of common plants, birds, mammals and other wildlife; introduction to forestry and wildlife management; fisheries management and agricultural issues

Lead organization: Southern Regional Extension Forestry Office,

School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia

Master Naturalist Program

University of Illinois Extension, Rock Island County is pleased to offer a new Illinois Master Naturalist Program to local residents The program's vision is todevelop a corps of well-educated "Master Volunteers" to provide education, outreach, and service dedicated toward the beneficial management of naturalresources within their communities

Lead organization: Univerisity of Illinois Extension

Contact(s): Elizabeth Haynes

Email: ehaynes@uiuc.edu

Phone: (309) 796-0512

Website: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/rockisland/mnaturalist/

Indiana

Indiana Master Naturalist

The Indiana Master Naturalist program can provide you with many hands-on opportunities to learn about our Hoosier natural resources It also provides a way for you to share that knowledge, along with your life experiences,

through volunteer service

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Lead organization: Resource Conservation & Development

Councils, Indiana Soil & Water Conservation Districts, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, and Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Contact(s): Ginger Murphy

Email: gmurphy@dnr.state.in.us

Phone: 317-232-4143

Website: http://www.in.gov/dnr/masternaturalist/

Iowa

Iowa Master Woodland Manager Program

The objectives of the program are to develop a network of highly motivated, well trained volunteers to assist land management professionals in improvingand expanding tree resources

Lead organization: ISU Forestry Extension

Iowa Community Tree Steward Program

The Iowa Community Tree Steward program (formerly know as the Master Community Tree Manager program) will be offered to residents of central and eastern Iowa This educational program is sponsored by the Iowa Urban and Community Forestry Council, in cooperation with Iowa State University

Extension, the Forestry Division of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources,and Trees Forever The purpose of the program is to develop a network of highly motivated, well-trained volunteers to assist in the improvement and expansion of community tree resources in Iowa

Lead organization: ISU Forestry Extension

Contact(s): Jeff Iles, Extension Horticulturist or Paul Wray,

Extension Forester or Tivon Feeley cfeeley@iastate.edu at515-294-6739

Email: cfeeley@iastate.edu

Phone: Jeff Iles (515/294-0029) or Tivon Feeley 515-294-6739

Website: http://www.forestry.iastate.edu/ext/icts.html

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Iowa Master Conservationist Program

Master Conservationists are individuals that share an interest in the

sustainability of Iowa's natural resources, and in becoming better stewards of Iowa's resources

Lead organization: Iowa State Extension

Contact(s): James L Pease

Email: jlpease@iastate.edu

Phone: 515-294-7429

Website: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/wildlife/programs.html

Iowa

Prairie's Edge Sustainable Woods Cooperative

Program type: Forest Landowner Cooperative

Lead organization: Independent / member-led

Contact(s): Kevin Sand

Email: kevinsand@qwest.net

Phone: 563-382-2754

Website:

Kentucky

Contact(s): Jeff Stringer

Email: stringer@uky.edu

Phone: (859) 257-5994

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Kentucky Woodland Owner Short Course

This statewide program provides hands-on education and training to

woodland owners in Kentucky The course is a series of one-day workshops held at various tree farms and woodland owner properties throughout the state

Participants enroll and attend all field days and obtain a certificate of

achievement for their efforts Each individual workshop in the series is

devoted to a specific issue of interest to Non-Industrial Private Forest owners and woodland owners present and volunteer properties for this program The program is sponsored by the Kentucky Woodland Owners Association and the Kentucky Division of Forestry

Lead organization: University of Kentucky, Department of

Contact(s): Donald P Reed

Email: dreed@agctr.lsu.edu

Phone: 225-683-5848

Website: http://masterwildlifer.org/index.html

Louisiana

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Contact(s): Brian Chandler

Email: bchandler@agctr.lsu.edu

Phone: (225) 578-4087

Maine

Earth Connections Volunteers: Creating Sustainable Communities

Earth Connections Volunteers: Creating Sustainable Communities is a

volunteer development program with the vision that participants “see

themselves as part of an interconnected world and are committed to creating

a sustainable future." The goals of the program are to: 1) develop a corps of volunteers committed to conducting community outreach and leadership; 2) disseminate research-based information on ecology, natural resource

management, sustainable living, and healthy lifestyles; and 3) provide a link between Maine citizens and organizations providing conservation,

stewardship, and sustainability education, information, and services

Volunteers participate in a 40-hour course of study, and commit to

conducting 40 hours of community outreach in collaboration with a

community group or school or a conservation organization, or as an

independent project of their own design In ensuing years, the program will

be offered to new volunteers, and additional curriculum modules will be offered to previous “graduates” to supplement their skills and knowledge, and provide further focus to their continued outreach efforts

Lead organization: University of Maine Cooperative Extension

and Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center

Contact(s): Cathy Elliott, Les Hyde, Laura Sebastianelli, Heather

Habitat Stewards™ is a volunteer program of the National Wildlife

Federation® and, in Maine, is a joint effort with the University of Maine

Cooperative Extension Habitat Stewards have an interest in making our communities good habitat for wildlife and a commitment to share what

they’ve learned with others Highlights of the training includes wildlife

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survival needs, components of habitat, principles for managing habitat, use

of native plant species in the settled landscape, and designing the home landscape as wildlife habitat Habitat Stewards choose volunteer activities that match their interests Focusing on the settled landscape, Habitat

Stewards educate people to create and restore wildlife habitat in their yards, schoolyards and other private and public areas Habitat Stewards volunteer

30 hours for the 30 hours of training they receive the first year In

subsequent years, training opportunities are offered in exchange for

continuing the volunteer commitment

Lead organization: University of Maine Extension and the

National Wildlife Federation

Contact(s): Nancy Coverstone

Email: ncstone@umext.maine.edu

Phone: (207) 353-5550

Website:

http://www.umext.maine.edu/HabitatStewards/Default.htm

Maryland

Coverts

Coverts is a special educational effort of the Maryland Cooperative Extension,

of the University of Maryland and the Ruffed Grouse Society The Coverts Project has been reaching out to Maryland’s individual woodland landowners since 1990 to teach them how sound management practices can make

wildlife healthier, more diverse, and more abundant

Lead organization: University of Maryland Cooperative Extension

and the Ruffed Grouse Society

Contact(s): Jonathan Kays

management practices COVERTS is based on successful projects by the samename organized in Connecticut and Vermont by Cooperative Extension and the Ruffed Grouse Society

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Lead organization: University of Massachusetts Extension and

the Ruffed Grouse Society

Contact(s): David B Kittredge

Email: dbk@forwild.umass.edu

Phone: 413-545-2943

Website:

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative

Contact(s): Susan Campbell

Email: susan@masswoodlands.coop

Phone: (413)397-8800

Website: http://www.masswoodlands.coop/

Michigan

Master Woodland Manager / Michigan Master Woodland Steward Program

This program is an intensive training course for those who own wooded lands and are interested in becoming better stewards of forest resources

Lead organization: Michigan State University Extension

Contact(s): Dean Solomon or Georgia Peterson

Email: solomon@msue.msu.edu or petersog@msue.msu.edu

Phone: Solomon: 616-671-2412 Peterson: 517-335-7383

Website: http://www.for.msu.edu/extension/MWM.htm

Michigan

Upper Penninsula Community Forestry Cooperative, Inc.

Contact(s): Archie Hendrick

Email: sundell@tds.net

Phone: 906-439-5300

Website: www.upconsult.com/umfsg

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MN Master Naturalist

The Minnesota Master Naturalist Program is a volunteer program that trains adults about Minnesota's natural resources, teaches how to educate others, and provides opportunities to do conservation projects

Lead organization: University of MN- Extension

Contact(s): Rob Blair

Email: BlairRB@UMN.edu

Phone: 612-624-2198

Website: http://www.minnesotamasternaturalist.org/

Minnesota

Minnesota Tree Care Advisors

This program is offered as an advanced training program for Master

Gardeners, and others on a Professional Development basis TCA volunteers will provide their communities and the State of Minnesota with a valuable pool of educated stewards to support and enhance our urban and communityforests

Lead organization: University of Minnesota Department of Forest

Woodland Advisor Program

The Woodland Advisor Program provides opportunities to learn about

Minnesota's forests and forestry issues

Lead organization: Minnesota Forestry Association and the

University of Minnesota Extension

Contact(s): Angie Gupta, Mike Reichenbach, or Eli Sagor

Email: agupta@umn.edu, reich027@umn.edu, or

esagor@umn.edu

Phone: 888-241-4536

Website: http://www.cnr.umn.edu/cfc/wa/

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