The Forest Stewardship Program provides assistance to private forest landowners to encourage and enable active, long-term forest management to meet their individual goals and for the benefit of the forest resource.

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Are your trees a forest?

Most people think they know a forest when they see one– a fall drive through the Pembina Gorge or a leisurely canoe paddle down the Sheyenne River will have anyone agreeing, yes, that’s forest I see.  Hillside hardwood forests and forested river corridors are easy to recognize as “woodlands” and owners of these acreages have no problem recognizing that they are forest landowners. 

However, nearly half of North Dakota’s forests are characterized as “trees outside forests” and this includes windbreaks!  Each individual windbreak may only be a few acres in size, but it provides essential services such as reducing erosion, creating wildlife habitat, filtering sediment, managing snow deposition and slowing our famous North Dakota wind.

Whether your forest grew naturally or was planted in rows, you are a forest landowner and Forest Stewardship is for you!

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Forest Stewardship Staff

Matt Olson - Forest Stewardship Manager - Lisbon
Tel: (701) 683-4323 •  Email: Matthew.P.Olson@ndsu.edu

Cody Clemenson - Forest Stewardship Specialist - Bottineau
Tel: (701) 228-5490  •  E-mail:  Cody.S.Clemenson@ndsu.edu

Noah Schaeffer - Forest Stewardship Specialist - Lisbon
Tel: (701) 683-4323 • E-mail: noah.schaeffer@ndsu.edu

Vacant - Forest Stewardship Specialist - Walhalla
Tel: (701) 549-2441  •  Email: