Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program

09/04/2026

It's Forest Friday! I'm happy to share the first in our 6-part series of shorts for this fall: Clues to Land Use History.

Join us at 12:15 each Friday in September and early October for a new Five Minutes in the Forest video.

09/04/2026

Want to learn more about measuring the trees in your yard and in your woods? Check out our Timber Cruising for Woodland Owners class on September 25th at the Mathews State Forest in Galax.

Registration includes lunch, your very own Biltmore stick and angle gauge.

https://forestupdate.frec.vt.edu/landownerprograms/timber-cruise-workshops.html

Carroll County Times

09/03/2026

Educational videos on all aspects of woodland management, the benefits of woodland management, and other nature-related topics.

09/03/2026

It's National Beard Day! To celebrate, let's learn about one of Virginia's lovely wildflowers that's blooming right now: yellow crownbeard or stickweed (Verbesina occidentalis). This plant tends to be weedy and reduces plant diversity in some areas. However, it is a native plant and a late season bloomer.

You can distinguish it from wingstem, a look-alike, by the leaf arrangement. Crownbeard has oppositely arranged leaves and wingstem has alternately arranged leaves.

Verbesina occidentalis This native perennial of moist and sunny places begins blooming in late summer and has a confusing look-alike called wingstem, Verbesina alternifolia, which blooms at about t…

09/03/2026

The Fall Forestry & Wildlife Field Tours are already filling up!

We still have space available for:
October 20 - Montgomery County
October 21 - Franklin County
October 23 - Hanover County

Don't miss out on this once in a lifetime celebration - register today!
https://forestupdate.frec.vt.edu/landownerprograms/field-tours.html

09/02/2026

The Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program's September 2026 e-Update Newsletter (in a new format!) is now available:

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09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Welcome hungry monarchs!

09/01/2026

Proud to know these landowners!

As habitat fragmentation threatens Virginia's wildlife, two retired neighbors are turning their farms into biodiversity havens backed by Smithsonian science.