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Just a quick note about an excellent source of free, high quality woodland info:

Cornell University’s Forest Connect series is the source for monthly live web-based seminars on a wide variety of woodland topics. The presentations are designed for woodland owners, and are typically offered at both noon and 7pm on the third Wednesday of each month. Even though the seminars tend to focus on eastern forests, many topics would be highly relevant to Minnesota woodland owners. And they’re completely free.

What have you got to lose? See a list of past presentations, or register to receive announcements of future events.

Have you attended one of these seminars? What was your take? Leave a comment below.

This morning, just before sending out the July MMW update email, I added a Flickr photo badge to the white pine forest type page. The badge randomly calls up 10 images from my Flickr photo library that are tagged with the words “white” and “pine.” The images change with every reload. Clicking an image takes the user to the original Flickr photo page.

I’m not a big fan of bells & whistles, but everybody likes photos. Some of the photos are annotated (when I have time), making them a decent resource for woodland owners.

We’ll see how this goes. I’d appreciate feedback–is this sort of thing a great use of graphics or just clutter?