Bio: Winstead, Emily - Earns Tree Farmer Award (1981)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Winstead, Ackerman

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/30/1981

Granton-Woman Earns Tree Farmer Award (Winstead - 1981)

Emily Winstead, Rt. 1 Granton, has been awarded the 1981 Forest management and Tree Farm Award. The award is jointly sponsored by the Clark County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Wisconsin Tree Farm System.

Emily Winstead owns 130 acres of Woodland Tax Program in 1977. In each of the past four years, the Neillsville DMR forestry staff has marked trees for selective cutting in her hardwoods. About 288,400 board feet of lumber were harvested in those years with the tops from these cuttings utilized for firewood.

Besides some minor timber stand improvement, Winstead’s hardwoods will be selectively harvested every 10–15 years.

Now that Winstead had won the local award, her application will be sent on to the 9-county west central area association’s contest to be judged in late August. According to Art Ackerman, Neillsville, chairman of the west central award committee, “the District co-sponsors this award each year to give publicity to people doing a good job of forest management as well as to encourage other landowners to do this type of work.”