Adult and youth educators are critical to disseminating correct information about the sustainable management of forest and natural resources. The majority of New York’s private forest owners want more information about how to be good stewards of their land, yet they often don’t know where to turn for assistance. Cornell Cooperative Extension, through the county extension system, provides the core of forestry and natural resources educators in the state. These educators are trained in a variety of forest, natural resource and environmental fields; have connections to the Cornell University campus for interaction on research and extension projects; and have a powerful network of other CCE educators throughout the state to share educational successes and strategies. CCE educators are connected within their community to people who help form policies that affect the management and sustainability of private forest lands. Without CCE, forestry education in New York would accomplish only a small amount of what is currently accomplished.

ForestConnect will help forestry and natural resource educators, from CCE and elsewhere, be more efficient in their jobs and have broader and deeper impacts. All materials on the ForestConnect webpage are available, free of charge, for educational uses if credit is given to the author and to ForestConnect. This webpage provides the following resources.

• Download the educator’s guide to Sustainable Forestry Education
• Post and retrieve newspaper articles for use in local newspapers
• Learn about Forestry and Natural Resources in-service trainings for CCE and partner educators
• Download fact sheets and educational brochures
• Review frequently asked questions
• Suggest research topics that can be considered within the research process of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
• View Powerpoint presentations from many previous workshops