WCW Forestry for Birds for Landowners - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Forestry for Birds Webinar and Demo Site Tours for Landowners

The Wisconsin Center for Wildlife, the Wisconsin Forestry Center, and UW-Extension Forestry teamed up to provide a unique opportunity for landowners to learn how to manage their woodlots to benefit birds! Check out our free webinar and associated forest demonstration site tour, where landowners will learn how to implement sustainable forestry practices to create habitats for upland gamebirds, neotropical migrants, and more while also generating quality timber.

“Forestry for Birds” Webinar

June 6, 2025 3 – 4:15 pm

Are you interested in knowing how sustainable timber harvesting and other forest management activities can help forest bird populations in Wisconsin? Join us virtually to hear Mike Demchik (UW-Stevens Point Professor of Forestry) and Jason Riddle (UW-Stevens Point Wildlife Specialist) discuss their successes in using sustainable timber harvesting, invasive plant control, and prescribed fire to create beneficial habitat for native forest birds.

We’ll introduce three sites where tactics like these were used to assist birds such as woodcock, ruffed grouse, wood thrush and scarlet tanager among others. We’ll also talk about upcoming Field Days in June where you can visit one of these three locations.

Watch the Webinar Here!

Landowner Forest Management for Birds – Field Day Demo Site Tour

The Wisconsin Center for Wildlife, the Wisconsin Forestry Center, and UW-Extension Forestry teamed up to provide a unique opportunity for landowners to learn how to manage their woodlots to benefit birds! Through our free webinar and associated forest demonstration site tour, landowners will learn how to implement specific sustainable forestry practices that create habitats for upland gamebirds, neotropical migrants, and more while also generating quality timber.

Check out our “Forestry for Birds” Webinar (recording coming soon!) which covers Wisconsin forest bird ecology, forestry practices to assist native birds, and an introduction to sites where forest management techniques for bird habitat were performed.

A field day accompanies this webinar, providing landowners with a real-life view of how forestry practices are implemented to create quality habitat for birds. We will explore the Village of Plover Conservancy Area.
Tours are all Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.

Tour is $25.

Exact field site location, parking information, and more will be emailed to registrants one week before field tour

June 21, 2025

Village of Plover Conservancy Area

Features forestry practices including invasive woody species (buckthorn) control, use of prescribed fire, storm damage remediation, riparian forest management and old forest management in sedge meadow, forestry wetland, and old growth forest ecosystems. Focal bird species: Woodpeckers: downy, hairy, red-bellied Warblers: mourning, ovenbird, chestnut-sided, yellow, American redstart, common yellowthroat Vireos: red-eyed, warbling Others: Sedge wren, swamp sparrow, eastern towhee, wood thrush, Baltimore oriole, great-crested flycatcher, rose-breasted grosbeak, and wood thrush. Physical Difficulty Level: Easy, but challenging if wet.