All board meetings are open to all. The KWOA & KWOF Boards will meet on the dates shown below, either in person or by zoom. If you are interested in attending please email us at info.kwoa.net prior to the meeting date, so we can send you details on times, location, or zoom connection.
2022: May 12, August 11, November 10
2023: February 9

The annual meeting 2023, hopefully in-person, will conclude with board meetings for both organizations.

  2022 Annual Meeting AGENDA
Frankfort, KY on March 29 & 30, 2022 (Optional March 28)
AGENDA
Monday March 28: 1:00PM Tour of the Pfeiffer Fish Hatchery,1883 Indian Gap Road (Optional Event)
Tuesday March 29: Official Start of the Annual Meeting
8:30 – 9:30AM  Registration: Hampton Inn, 1310 U.S. 127 South, Frankfort, KY
9:30 – 9:45AM   Welcome:Doug McLaren, President, KWOA
9:45 – 10:30AM  Logging for Wildlife:Jacob Stewart, KDFWR
10:30 – 10:45AM Break:
10:45 – 11:30AM  Managing Warm Season Grasses for Pollinators:
                             Jacob Stewart, Makayla Rodgers, KDFWR
11:30 – 1:00 PM  Move to Salato Center & Lunch: (Provided)
 1:00 – 1:30PM   Riparian Zones as Wildlife Corridors: Dr. Amanda Gumbert, UK Extension
 1:30 – 2:15PM    Timber BMPs for Protection of Bats: Zack Couch, KDFWR
 2:15 – 3:00PM   Fire as a Management Tool for Wildlife:Jacob Stewart, KDFWR
 3:00 – 4:30PM Tour of the Salato Wildlife Center: Salato Center Staff
 5:00 – 6:00PM Happy Hour: Back to Hampton Inn
 7:00 – 9:30PM  Banquet (Provided)
          7:00 – 8:00 Annual Awards Dinner, KWOA & KWOF Directors
         8:00 – 8:20  Keynote Address Jacob Muller, UK Extension Forester
         8:20 – 8:40  Presentation of Award Henry Duncan, Doug McLaren, KWOA
         8:40 – 9:00  First Day Wrap UpDoug McLaren, KWOA
Wednesday March 30, 2022 (Breakfast on your own)
 8:30 – 8:45AM    Welcome, Doug McLaren, KWOA President
 8:45 – 9:30AM    Deer Hunt/Lease Management, Dr. Matt Springer, UK Extension
 9:30 – 10:00AM Forest Health Update, Dr. Ellen Crocker, UK Extension
10:00 -10:15AM    Break
10:15 –11:15AM       KWOA Partners Reports
11:15 – 12:00PM     Business Meetings: KWOA & KWOF Elections
12:00PM                 Adjournment: Doug McLaren, KWOA

​Here is a link to a recording of our June 8 zoom meeting with Alex Macintosh of NCX (formerly SilviaTerra) regarding this Data-Driven Forest Carbon Marketplace: https://zoom.us/rec/share/Z3Uojrjtx8K5li0JgCjjzyxeDG6StUWxEGVGGFUzwMiUvtnnNlkbq8Zw0xP-3v1d.A2cSmY_QxcekryVl with Passcode: 8=zu&!5u

This is unlike any carbon credit program we have seen before. Alex will explain how to enroll with no cost to the landowner, and how their one-year contracts do not hinder you from selling or doing the management work your woodlands require. Max Nova, cofounder of SilviaTerra, is a Kentuckina who is knowledgeable about the woodlands in our state,

It’s time to find a new home for those holiday gifts that were never given! Donate that item to the KWOA annual meeting silent auction. Donations can be anything with a monetary value. Event tickets, gift baskets, gift cards, books, artwork and crafts are welcome.
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Email a description of  your item and a suggested minimum bid to Harry Pelle, board member – hpelle@windstream.net. Please put Silent Auction in the subject line of your email. Please let Harry know whether you can bring it to the meeting or need it delivered. And thanks!

The KWOA 2021 annual meeting is still scheduled to convene at Lake Cumberland State Park in south central Kentucky September 28-29. If you have not done so, you can make lodging accommodations with the park by calling 270-343-3111.
 
Programs in planning include a tour of the Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery, trail construction and maintenance, wilderness safety and survival, edible and medicinal plants, and timber trespass and river basin activities.
Updates and registration information will be posted to the kwoa.net website as available.