Land Steward training and courses

The award-winning Land Steward training and courses lead participants through a stewardship planning process.

Participants engage in a multidisciplinary learning series that provides training on topics including:

Building healthy soils
Encouraging (and controlling) wildlife
Pasture management
Resources and regulations
Rural economics and enterprise
Rural water systems
Stream ecology
Wildfire risk reduction
Woodland and forest management

Field-based training

The Oregon field-based Land Steward training takes place over 13 weeks each September in Jackson county. This training includes weekly field classes and presentations from natural resource professionals, and an optional mentor site visit to participant's land.

Participants are guided through the creation of a personalized stewardship management plan. A physical library of stewardship books and materials are included with the course. The field training can be taken with or without volunteer service.

The online Land Steward course may be offered again in the future, but is not currently an option.

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Credit: Rachel Werling (Cropped from original)

Credit: Rachel Werling

Lasting impact of the program

"Every day, every season, I look at my home with a Land Steward eye and try to determine how I can do things better. And so I keep learning, keep engaging, and keep growing. There's not an aspect of my life, from growing food to serving that food to friends, that has not been touched by the Land Steward program."

Land Steward graduate

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Land Steward Program

Land Steward training and courses

Field-based training

Lasting impact of the program

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