DSWA Annual Meeting 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

5-8:00 p.m.

Douglas County Fairgrounds, Community Building

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Pokrandt, UCC President and CEO

Plus meet DSWA's 2025 Forestry scholarship recipient Makenzie Copelin 

BSWA's Annual Meeting will be held at the Marys River Grange on Saturday, January 24, 2026 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Gather for coffee, conversations and tasty treats at 10:30 a.m.).

Date & Time:  Saturday, January 24, 2026; 10:30 am to 2:00 pm

Location:   Marys River Grange Hall

Cost:       $10.00 for lunch, please pay at the door (cash or check)

DOOR PRIZE DRAWINGS BEGIN AT 11:00 so BE ON TIME!!!!

                            RSVP by Monday, January 19th

Register : bit.ly/3MgOBwG  by Monday, January 19th.

If you experience any difficulty in registering, please contact Crystal Kelso

at the Extension office at 541-730-3539

Come join your neighbors for

Door Prizes, Chapter Business, Market Updates, OSWA Updates, Education,
and Fellowship

Among the speakers will be folks from the Grange, Van Decker on log markets, Oregon Department of Forestry forester Leo Williamson, and OSWA’s new Executive Director, Mike Cafferata.

PLEASE BRING A NONPERISHABLE FOOD ITEM FOR THE FOOD BANK!

As always, we will have lunch, prizes, speakers and local and state updates!

Questions? Diana Blakney blakney1@comcast.net (541) 230-1248

All members are encouraged to attend.. There is a business side and a social side to the annual meeting. The afternoon will begin with a potluck lunch. 4-H presentations, door prizes, selection of officers and an auction are scheduled.

Free to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us for the Columbia County Board meeting at 7:00pm at the Fern Hill Grange.

An opportunity for OSWA members to discuss any topics relevant to small woodland owners.

OSWA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Time: Jan 9, 2026 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Welcome New Members! Let’s talk about your needs, and what OSWA can do for you.

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Topic: OSWA Zoom Skills, New Members Meeting, Member Forum

Time: Jan 9, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Brush up on your Zoom Meeting skills with Mike Cafferata. Open to all members.

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Topic: OSWA Zoom Skills, New Members Meeting, Member Forum

Time: Jan 9, 2026 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Hosted with the Women Owning Woodlands Network

Learn how to identify, harvest, and use native forest materials to make beautiful wreaths! At this festive forest workshop, you will design and construct your very own wreath to take home with you, just in time for the holidays.

Some greenery will be provided; however, we encourage you to forage in your yard and property for any clippings from plants that you like! Anything from our trusty native Douglas-fir, to classic holly, to sword fern – variety makes wreaths interesting and fun! Refer to this publication, Evergreen Boughs: A Brief Introduction to Harvesting and Marketing from Small Private Forestlands in the Pacific Northwest, for information on how to properly harvest evergreen boughs.

In addition to some greenery – wreath bases, floral wire, decorative ribbon, and clippers will be provided. However, please feel free to bring your favorite clippers or special decorations with you for your use.

This class is held outdoors in a covered pavilion. Please dress in warm layers. We'll have a roaring fire and hot cider to keep you toasty!

Enjoy a fun and creative afternoon crafting your own creation!

Join Pami Monette, florist & owner of County Line Flowers, for a guided how-to demonstration to construct your very own wreath or garland from locally grown evergreens and unique dried elements. All supplies will be provided. Evergreen clippings and pinecones courtesy of Lincoln OSWA members.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Doors open 1:30

$35 per person*

Lincoln Extension

1211 SE Bay Blvd, Newport

To secure your spot, signup here https://beav.es/o8g

Space is limited to 24 participants.

 Volunteers are needed to provide evergreen clippings (boughs) for the Holiday Wreath Workshop. Greens like cedar, hemlock, spruce, holly and pinecones are needed for 24 wreaths/garlands. Ben is also bringing redwood and sequoia boughs.

Dan Stark, Assistant Professor of Practice (he/him/his)
Oregon State University
OSU Extension Service – Lincoln, Tillamook, Clatsop Counties

Forestry & Natural Resources Extension

1211 SE Bay Blvd | Newport, OR 97365

(541) 574-6534

Mike Cafferata is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Topic: Foraging Zoom Show and Tell
Time: Dec 4, 2025 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Forest Foraging Show & Tell – December 4 (via Zoom)

The Columbia Chapter is hosting a “Show and Tell” Zoom session on forest foraging — and all OSWA members are welcome! This first session will include pesto from forest greens, harvesting stinging nettles, and cooking with chanterelles, with hosts Michele Schmidt, Mike Cafferata, and Heather Mohan-Gibbons. They will share what they forage, how they use it, and how they learned.

This informal gathering is a chance to share experiences and ideas about foraging on your own woodland and to see what others are doing on theirs. If there’s good interest, we may continue this series as the seasons change, featuring other members and the diverse ways they harvest and use forest products throughout the year.

Whether you’re an experienced forager or just curious to learn more, please join us! Also, if your friends and neighbors would be interested, invite them to join and share the zoom link with them.

Date: December 4

Where: Online (Zoom)

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Landslides in forested landscapes

December 3rd, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

OSU Extension Service - Douglas County
1134 SE Douglas Avenue, Roseburg
Auditorium

$10 per person

Learn about the geologic processes, risk factors and impacts of landslides that affect small forest landowners. We will cover an introduction to slope stability, an overview of the ODF forest practice rules that relate to slope stability, and an introduction to digital resources.
 
Speakers will include experts from OSU and Oregon Department of Forestry. 

Open to all OSWA members. Join us for discussion on anything relevant to small woodland owners.

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You are cordially invited to the WCSWA Annual Banquet.

It is always good to get together. You will have a chance to visit with friends, bid on raffle items, win a door prize, elect new officers and board members, hear the announcement of the 2025 Tree Farmer of the year and listen to a great speaker. Our venue is a repeat of last year: The Embassy Suites in Hillsboro.

• This event is for WCSWA members and their immediate family • Please register by November 10 • If you have questions, please contact Delilah Marvelle Ahrendt at 503-312-9197 or delilah@delilahmarvelle.com.

Location: Embassy Suites Hillsboro 9355 NW Tanasbourne Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124

Cost: $35 per person

Agenda:
5:30pm Social Hour No-host bar
6:15pm Buffet dinner and Dessert
7:00pm WCSWA Annual Meeting,
2025 TFOY Award 7:45pm Guest Speaker, Bill Sullivan, author
****Door and Raffle Prizes**

“Log Cabins and Coyotes”

Author William L. Sullivan will be our guest speaker at the WCSWA’s Annual Meeting and Banquet which starts at 5:30pm on November 22. Sullivan will fill us in on the construction of a log cabin he built by hand for $400 on his family’s forest property and the mystery surrounding it. He’ll also take us on the 1,300-mile solo backpack trip he undertook across Oregon to research the state’s wildlands.

Sullivan is the author of 27 books about Oregon, including the “100 Hikes” guidebooks, three books about Oregon history, and a series of murder mysteries set in Oregon. His adventure memoir “Listening for Coyote” was chosen by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission as one of Oregon’s “100 Books,” the 100 most significant books in the state’s history.

Be sure to fill out and send in the registration form. Hope to see you there.

Columbia County Annual Meeting 5pm

Quincy Grange Dinner

Elections, program,

Please RSVP to Mark Dreyer

Learn how to prepare your native seeds over winter to be ready for spring planting. Get hands on experience labeling plants and practicing stratification techniques with Master Gardener Lynn Kunstman. Lynn operates our Native Plant Nursery and is experienced in rearing native plants.

Class size limited to 10 participants.

569 Hanley Rd
Central Point, OR 97502

Small Classroom

Nov 8, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$15 per person or sliding scale. Fees help support the Master Gardener Program.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by Oct 30, 2024 to Grace Florjancic: grace.florjancic@oregonstate.edu or 541-930-8415

Woodland Management: Taking Care of a Woodland Property. Myrtle point. Fridays, 2pm-4pm, November 7,14,21, December 5th. Field day: 10am-2pm, Saturday December 6th.

Coos County Extension Office. 631 Alder St. Myrtle Point, OR 97458. $50 per person or $60 for two.  

This five-session course is ideal for anyone who is starting out taking care of a woodland property. We will cover: How to assess your property and your site, understanding tree biology and forest ecology, reforestation considerations, caring for an established forest, fire defensible space, contracts and how to hire someone to get the job done, laws and regulations, field trip to see examples of things learned in class. Register here.

For our meeting this fall we are excited that Lindsay Davis will be speaking to us about Hampton Lumber's pilot pollinator habitat enhancement project. When they began the pilot pollinator enhancement program in 2017, there was very little information available about which native bees made use of forest habitat and no substantive information about how post-harvest management might affect bees. Hampton's partners in the conservation and academic community encouraged them to try out different management prescriptions and evaluate their effectiveness.

Over the course of three years (2018-2021) Hampton has treated over 165 acres of recently harvested forestland with different variations of habitat enhancement. Treatments included:

• Sowing seeds of native plants particularly valuable to pollinators, either for food or habitat.

• Creation and maintenance of piles of woody debris to serve as nesting sites.

• Altering woody debris management to increase competitiveness of flowering plants.

• Maintaining small areas of cleared, lightly disturbed top soil for ground nesting species.

• Creation of treatment exclusion zones within the pilot project area for research into the effectiveness of the pilot treatments.

• Doing pre and post-treatment species surveys to provide indications of treatment effectiveness.

Lindsay will be presenting the preliminary results of the project, including how they are providing assistance to other forest landowners interested in improving habitat for pollinators on their properties. For more information see their website https://www.hamptonlumber.com/trees-bees.

Ties to the land: succession planning for forestland owners

October 24th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Benton County Extension
4077 SW Research Way, Corvallis

$40 per family

This workshop is designed for forestland owners interested in planning for the future. We will cover a succession planning framework designed to meet your own vision and goals for your rural property. 

Matteson Community Day 2025

Date: Saturday, October 18th, 2025
Time: 9am to 1pm
Location: Matteson Demonstration Forest

Join OSU College of Forestry Research Forests, FNR Extension, and Friends of Matteson for our annual Matteson Community Day. The day will include volunteer work from 9am to 12pm and a discussion over lunch from 12pm to 1pm, with time for questions, socializing, and connecting. Lunch will be provided!

For those with limited ability or availability to join for the whole event, we welcome you to join for the lunch portion at 12pm as well. Please register so we can order you a sandwich!   

Together, we will:
-Work on Amy's Trail

-Maintain native pollinator garden

-Plan new trail loop

-Reflect on past year of programming at the forest

-Hear from members of the Friends of Matteson group 

-Visions for the coming years

 *PPE Provided*

What to bring: 

-- Appropriate clothing and footwear for trailwork and landscaping work

-- Water 

-- Sun/Rain protection

-- Camp chair for lunch

-- Tools

Presented by Oregon Agricultural Trust and OSU Extension Service