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Newsletter Summer 2024
Overstory, summer 2024 ...read more
Newsletter Spring 2024
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Welcome New Officers Brayton Pendell & Mary Marchewka
At the annual meeting SAC members voted on our slate of officers for the coming year. Bruce Cushing and William Burke were re-elected to the offices they held, chairman and secretary respectively. We would like to welcome two new officers to fill vacant positions. ...read more

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Featured Member Profile
Frank Winkler
One of the great benefits of the member profile feature over the years has been the diversity of knowledge and experience shared with the entire membership, and thereafter archived for future reference. As we can’t currently all be out visiting with and learning from each other in person in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the generosity of members sharing their stories in the Forest Owner continues to provide one of the primary teaching tools in NYFOA’s toolkit—peers educating peers based on hands-on experience in their own woodlots. The member profile this time out is of Frank Winkler, who as a long-time natural resource educator, and with a life-long connection to his wooded property, provided a wealth of information and lessons learned far above and beyond my request, only the highlights of which we will have space to cover here.
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