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Objectives: 

Provides education and information and other services for non-industrial forest landowners, including Tree Farm members, educational institutions, and the general public on the following:

• Promote and nurture woodland stewardship throughout Ohio.

• Promote the benefits of environmentally sound forestry to community leaders.

• Foster and promote stewardship of Ohio's woodlands for timber production, wildlife habitat, and recreational pursuits while maintaining water quality standards.

• Educate landowners in all aspects of woodland ownership including investment opportunities.

The Ohio Woodland Journal is a quarterly magazine containing educational information on managing and protecting Ohio's forest, wildlife and water resources.  Contributing authors possess a vast diversity of technical backgrounds and expertise and include wildlife biologists, foresters, economists, tree farmers and those in the wood products industry.  The Ohio Woodland Journal's content is primarily directed to the non-industrial private forestland owner and offers an understanding of the diverse possibilities for forest ownership and land stewardship and provides the technical guidance to achieving ownership goals.  However, it also serves to inform the non-forest landowner, community leaders and educators on the many components of Ohio's forests and exposes them to the concepts of forest management. 

Since its inception in 1994, an editorial board of foresters and forest landowners has governed the publication for content and design.  The board believes in a balance approach when selecting articles and encourages a good mixture of topics for each issue.  The quarterly Off-The-Cuff column provides editorial space to other environmental groups to present their ideas and agendas.  The Calendar of Events provides free space to conservation organizations for meeting announcements.

The Ohio Woodland Journal is sent free of charge to Ohio Tree Farm members, Tree Farm inspecting foresters, state legislators, and for one year to landowners who received a Forest Stewardship Plan.  There are presently 292 individual paid subscribers.  Private landowners, businesses and conservation organizations sponsor The Ohio Woodland Journal in their local high school and public libraries and to date 213 libraries post the magazine in their periodical section.  Present circulation is 3250.

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