The College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University is hosting a free forest landowner workshop at Jones Lake State Park near Elizabethtown on Thursday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This is a free workshop that will inform forest landowners how to walk through their forests to better understand what forest products can come from specific types of forests. Attending the workshop in addition to landowners will be foresters, loggers and Cooperative Extension Agents and specialists to discuss the many forest products that can come from forest owned by local landowners.

Registration online can be found at http://forestry.ces.ncsu.edu/events. A lunch can be purchased for approximately $10. Attendees can arrive from 8 to 9 a.m. for coffee and registration and the workshop ends at 4 p.m.

There will be a one-hour demonstration of a portable sawmill sawing logs in addition to a firewood processor sawing and splitting logs. In the morning and afternoon we will have a walking tour of several forest stands near Jones Lake.

Kelley McCarter at NCSU Forestry Extension can be contacted for phone registration at 919-515-9563. Harry Watt is the contact person for details about the workshop, at cell 704-880-3067 and harry_watt@ncsu.edu.