You won’t want to miss this great opportunity to see a unique, 730 acre property and get to visit with Ted and Mary Brown and their family. The Browns acquired their first forest property in the 1950’s and have been actively managing it ever since.

Some of the highlights include:

• An inventory system that has been in place for years and works

• Successful ways for converting old fields to thriving tree plantations

• Managing an uneven-aged stand for old forest characteristics

• A western bbq beef lunch by Union County’s 4-H Youth Exchange

• Making rustic doors and other products as a “value added” business

• Long-term Ponderosa pine commercial thinning trials with OSU Extension

• Managing dwarf mistletoe

• A small sawmill demonstration

 Wisdom Creek Ranch (Brown property) directions:

From La Grande, take Interstate 84 south. Look for signs to Union and Catherine Creek State Park, go east on Highway 203. Travel 16 miles from Union to 53313 Highway 203 (about 7 miles south of Catherine Creek State Park), turn east and go up driveway to Ted and Mary Brown’s house.

If you would like to take a bus from La Grande/Island City to the Brown’s meet at 8:00 am at: Ag Service Center (OSU Extension office) 10507 N. McAlister Rd., Island City, OR

(for directions go http://extension.oregonstate.edu/union/index.php and click on “find us”on the left side of the page).

Call the OSU Extension Union County Office at 541-963-1010 for more information or to register

To register for this tour, send this form, a check payable to Oregon Tree Farm System for

$10 per person and reference “ATFS 2009 Summer Tour” to:

OSU Extension Union County

10507 N. McAlister Rd., La Grande, OR 97850