Our first stop is at Menominee
Tribal Enterprises in NE Wisconsin.  This world-famous forest has been carefully managed for over 145 years.  Certified by both SmartWood and SCS, MTE has a long record of sustainable forestry.  Marshall Pecore and his forestry staff will show us their intensive management approach at several locations in this 220,000 acre forest.

Sustainable Woods Cooperative will be another stop on our tour. Timbergreen Farm at Spring Green Wisconsin will host the group for value-added processing and horse logging demonstrations.  Certified landowner cooperatives offer great promise to bring intensive sustainable management to the millions of small private woodlots in the US.  A Federation of Sustainable Woods Cooperatives is being planned.

Oak savanna is one of the world's rarest ecosystems, and many remnant exist in the Spring Green area.  SWC ecologist Gigi LaBudde  will give a special demonstration of savanna restoration, including a prescribed burn in a savanna and prairie habitat.    Certification includes protection and restoration of rare and endangered habitats - and group work projects (prescribed burns) are a major advantage of the  cooperative movement.