Put March 5 and 6, 1999 on your calendar to attend the 19th annual Tree Farm/Stewardship Days at the Ramada Inn, Columbia, Mo. This event features concurrent educational sessions and an awards banquet.
The 1999 theme is "Sustainable Forests - the Role of the Private Woodland Owner." For more information contact John P. Slusher, extension forester, (573) 882-4444, or Lorene Lake, MU Conference Office, (573) 882-2301.
This year's Tree Farm/Stewardship Days conference is cooperating with a separate, but related, conference being held at the MU campus. The title of that conference is "Toward a Vision for Missouri's Private Forests." That conference will begin on Thursday, March 4, 1999 and end at 4 pm on Friday, March 5. For information on this conference, contact Jan Weaver, director, Environmental Studies, 220 Gentry Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211; phone (573) 882-7116, fax (573) 882-5127, or email: envstudy@showme.missouri.edu or access their web page at:http://www.missouri.edu/~esiwww/forests.html