NYFOA was founded in 1963 to encourage well informed management of privately owned woodlands in New York State and to promote, protect, represent, and serve the interests of woodland owners.

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NYFOA Spring 2020 Program CANCELLED
Due to the COVID-19 situation, NYFOA President Art Wagner has cancelled this year's Spring Program that was to be held on April 25th. ...read more
SOT's Annual Potluck Dinner Featured on Local News Show
SOT Chairman, Steve Kutney, says, "WBNG channel 12 news came to our potluck dinner to film and report on our potluck dinner." Click on the link in this article to view the station's video story." ...read more
SOT Provides Answers to Their Newsletter's Crossword Puzzle
Answers are provided to the forestry-related Crossword Puzzle presented in their Winter 2019 Newsletter. ...read more

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Carol and Gerry McDonald
Carol and Gerry grew up in Albany but didn’t meet until a chance hitchhiking encounter in 1980. They married the following year and raised two children, a daughter now residing outside Boston and a son who lives locally. Gerry worked for the NYS Department of Health as a public health environmental specialist for 32 years; he retired in 2011. Carol is currently the vice president of finance for Albany Medical Center hospital. After fixing up an old starter home purchased in 1982, they bought a small nine acre parcel of land in the Town of Coeymans in rural Albany County in 1988. Gerry was a fledgling woodworker and once he realized the trees on the property could be milled into usable lumber, he moved forward with his hobby in earnest. They built their first house in 1991 and Gerry built all the cabinets and countertops, and made the trim from wood off the property.
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