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Caring for Your Land Series - Course in a Box

Update July, 2005:

The Caring For Your Land Series continues to develop both with new courses being planned and also with the amount of requests for the individual courses.

Courses in development and scheduled for completion in 2005 are "Trees are Important", and "Biodiversity Indicator Species". The Grenville Land Stewardship Council continues to be the custodian of the courses and all requests are serviced through the GLSC.

Annual Report 2003:

The "Caring for Your Land Series" (Course-in-a-Box) initiative has completed ten environmental courses that are designed to educate landowners and the general public. Each course contains a binder with the course material and a presentation on CD.

These self-contained resources are available to interest groups and individuals in the community. The steering committee overseeing this project has developed a communication strategy to launch the project at the Provincial Stewardship Training session to be held in Doreset in February 2004.

In partnership with Forestry Design Consultants, the following promotional components have been developed to promote the initiative:

  • Caring for Your Land course catalogue
  • Table-top display to promote the project
  • Powerpoint slide presentations
  • Project brochure

The Grenville Land Stewardship Council will act as the custodian for the project to manage incoming requests. The Caring for Your Land series catalogue will also be launched on this Web site.

Annual Report 2002:

This project continutes to develop in terms of new courses being completed. Forestry Design has taken on the responsibility as project manager, to oversee the completion of these new courses. In addition, a "Caring for Land Series" marketing strategy is being developed with plans for a fall project launch.

There are 9 courses that are nearing completion:

  1. Conifer plantation management
  2. Ice storm recovery: woodlots and plantations
  3. Ice storm recovery for shade trees
  4. Invasive species
  5. Sugar bush management
  6. Tree identification
  7. Woodlot management
  8. Tree planting
  9. Hawk and Raptor Identification

Project partners:

  • Eastern Ontario Model Forest
  • Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority
  • Eastern Ontario Stewardship Councils