3-4-10 update

1. A DOF Project leader has been assigned to each participant. An attached list shows which DOF forester will be working with you as your primary point of contact during the extreme forest makeover program. For those who are working with private consulting foresters, your assigned DOF forester will serve as a backup resource, or if you have questions about this forest makeover program. Please know that these "assignments" have been made to help us serve you better, and that you will have plenty of opportunities to interact with all of the DOF Project leaders throughout this program.

Between now and the end of March, the DOF foresters will be in contact with those forest makeover participants who need to develop and/or revise their forest stewardship plans.

2. The first course--A Local Natural History and Basic Forest Ecology--will be offered in late March (not mid-March as advertised previously). MORE DATES HAVE BEEN ADDED! Please visit the doodle website to revise your vote or vote for the first time: https://mail.virginia.gov/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.doodle.com/det7s6zpdugfrfid

Doug Ogle will be joining us as a guest lecturer for this program. For those of you who have heard Doug speak before, you'll know that this is a rare treat. For those of you who have not, please take my word for it...you'll be glad you came. (Will someone please remind me to tell the story about the first time I heard Doug speak?)

3. For those who have already completed their forest stewardship plans, be thinking of the 3 specific projects you would like to accomplish in the next 3 years.

Thanks, and I look forward to the next time I see all of you!