Stevens Point News

Main Menu

  • Covid 19
  • Sports
    • Sports News
    • High School Sports Scores
    • Wisconsin Rapids Rafters
  • Crime
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Opinion
  • Obits
  • Contact
    • Subscribe
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • E-Edition
    • Stevens Point City Times

logo

Stevens Point News

  • Covid 19
  • Sports
    • Sports News
    • High School Sports Scores
    • Wisconsin Rapids Rafters
  • Crime
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Opinion
  • Obits
  • Contact
    • Subscribe
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • E-Edition
    • Stevens Point City Times
Community News
Home›Community News›Family of Famed Local Journalist Donates Land to UWSP

Family of Famed Local Journalist Donates Land to UWSP

By STEVENS POINT NEWS
May 4, 2014
849
0
Share:

For the City-Times

One of central Wisconsin’s finest examples of a managed forest is being donated to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point by a family long committed to conservation.

Jeanette Rogers, who died April 22, along with her children, Jim and Jane, are honoring the wishes of their late husband and father, George Rogers, to permanently preserve a 39-acre managed, working forest in the town of Hull.

The family is donating the land to the UW-Stevens Point’s College of Natural Resources (CNR). The George Rogers Living Forest will be used by as an outdoor laboratory for education, demonstration and research.

Rogers spent his life working as a local journalist for area publications.

The Rogers family worked with North Central Conservancy Trust (NCCT), a Stevens Point-based land trust, to place a conservation easement on the property. This was an essential first step to Rogers.

“Dad believed that preserving green spaces in an increasingly urbanized landscape is a top priority for maintaining quality of life in Portage County,” Jim Rogers said.

George Rogers, a Stevens Point native, longtime writer, editor, civic leader and devoted conservationist, died last November.

“We are grateful to the Rogers family for this generous gift, and we are honored to carry on the legacy of stewardship that George started more than 60 years ago,” said CNR Dean Christine Thomas. “This forest has been extremely well managed and is exactly the type of woodland property we look for in a field teaching site.”

Rogers purchased the property in 1950, when it was mostly open land with a few scattered scrub oak and jack pine. He planted more than 40,000 red pine seedlings and 500 white pine seedlings, with the help of UW-Stevens Point students. Nurtured through the state’s Forest Crop (Managed Forest) Law program, the property was transformed into a productive, managed forest.

He felt it could be a great learning space for forest management students and wanted the property kept in permanent green space, regardless of who owns it.

“What an incredible gift Jeanette and George have made,” said NCCT’s Executive Director Betsy Kerlin. “This special place will remain forever forested for the enjoyment and benefit of students and the public.”

Rogers wrote about the managed pine planation in his book, “Among the Leaves.” He harvested about 1,900 cords of wood between 1972 and 2007, including logs to build three cabins at the Central Wisconsin Environmental Station.

A conservation easement provides permanent protection of scenic working lands, preserving habitat for wildlife and plant communities, Kerlin said. Local landowners interested in preserving their property from development can contact NCCT for information on conservation easements.

 

Previous Article

Guest Editorial: Welcome to Print, Stevens Point ...

Next Article

Girls in Pearls Boutique Recognized by Business ...

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • Community NewsTop Stories

    City Budget: Is the Sky Still Falling?

    April 30, 2012
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS
  • Community NewsElection 2012

    Actress Tyne Daly Supports Obama on Local Campaign Stop

    August 20, 2012
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS
  • Community NewsOutdoors & Sustainability

    Ciclovia Comes to Point

    September 19, 2012
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS
  • Community News

    Presentation on changes to Portage County Shoreland Zoning Ordinance

    February 21, 2013
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS
  • Community News

    City Releases RFP for Edgewater

    February 21, 2013
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS
  • Community News

    Republican Party of Portage County Elects New Executive Board

    February 22, 2013
    By STEVENS POINT NEWS

Leave a reply Cancel reply

High School Sports

Go to High School Sports

Free SP Newsletter

  • Sports

  • Commentary

  • Cardinals survive and advance in comeback victory

    By Jacob Heid
    May 31, 2023
  • Stevens Point Country Club

    Stevens Point Country Club provides tough test in open qualifying

    By Jacob Heid
    May 30, 2023
  • SPASH softball dominates regional final with 20-hit performance

    By Jacob Heid
    May 26, 2023
  • Cardinals belt three homers to claim regional championship

    By Jacob Heid
    May 26, 2023
  • SPASH softball earns seven all-conference nods

    By Jacob Heid
    May 25, 2023
  • Pat Wood

    From the publisher: Christmas and Hanukkah

    By Kris Leonhardt
    December 24, 2022
  • Ice fishing contest Reels in $1,500 for Portage County Literacy Council

    By Taylor Hale
    March 17, 2022
  • Kemmeter Column: County celebrates year after quarantine

    By Taylor Hale
    July 12, 2021
  • Isherwood Column: Great engineering projects two

    By Taylor Hale
    July 11, 2021
  • Shoes News Graphic

    Show Column: Odd Jobs

    By Taylor Hale
    July 9, 2021

About Us


The Portage County Gazette is published every Friday by Multi Media Channels. It is locally-owned, locally-operated and locally-written. Subscriptions are $64 annually, delivered via the U.S. Postal Service.


To subscribe, go www.shopmmclocal.com/product/portage-county-gazette or call 715-258-4360

  • PO Box 408, Waupaca WI 54981
  • (715) 343-8045
  • News editor: [email protected]
Copyright © 2022 Multi Media Channels LLC.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted without the prior written consent of Multi Media Channels LLC.
×