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Alice Maas’ journey to discover her purpose at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was built on fieldwork and research that took her from the campus’ Schmeeckle Reserve to as far as villages and a school in Kenya. Having graduated from the College of Natural Resources in December 2025 with a degree in ecosystem restoration and […]

On any given day, Holly Petrillo, a UW-Stevens Point forestry professor, might be knee-deep in a Wisconsin forest helping students identify tree diseases or halfway around the world in rural Kenya, guiding them through a hands-on lesson on permaculture. This extraordinary range and unwavering commitment to student learning earned Petrillo, a professor of forestry at […]

A $4 million grant is helping the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) focus on innovations in the forest products sector, an industry central to Wisconsin’s economy and environment. WIST, a center within the College of Natural Resources at UW-Stevens Point, received the grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) […]

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the bark of a towering hardwood tree? At the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a group of passionate student researchers uncovered the hidden stories written within Wisconsin’s majestic and economically important hardwoods.  Forestry student research assistants Alice Maas, Hannah Kovalaske, and Eric Alfredson, working with the Wisconsin Forestry Center […]

Learn how prescribed fire can be used as a tool to benefit forest ecosystems and restore the environment as the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Wisconsin Forestry Center continues an online speaker series on prescribed fire forest management. Offered free of charge, the year-long webinar series, “Prescribed Fire for Forest Management,” is held monthly from 8:30-10 […]

Enjoy a guided birdwatching tour while learning about bird habitats and forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Schmeeckle Reserve next month. The tour will be offered from 7 to 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, meeting at the reserve’s Visitor Center. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for Wildlife (WCW) and the Wisconsin Forestry Center at […]

The donation of 11 acres to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will provide an outdoor laboratory for College of Natural Resources students to learn ecological restoration skills. The new field lab is named in honor of the late Robert J. Engelhard, a beloved forestry professor who taught at UW-Stevens Point for 25 years. The Bob […]

Addressing a need for skilled workers in the forestry industry, the Wisconsin Forestry Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will receive a state grant of up to $8 million. This Workforce Innovation Grant will support education and create a pipeline to forestry careers for the next generation. Gov. Tony Evers announced the Wisconsin Economic […]

The following faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been recognized for excellence: Professor Paul Doruska, forestry, was recently awarded Fellow status through the Society for American Foresters, recognizing his more than 30 years of service to the organization on the local, state and national level. As a Fellow he will […]

Just in time for Arbor Day, today forestry students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point began distributing 1,500 white pine seedlings to various area locations to help grow the educational forests of tomorrow. The trees will be planted at four Stevens Point district schools (Kennedy, Madison, Mc Dill and Plover-Whiting), at schools in Stratford and […]