UWSP students win scholarships from Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association

By Patrick Lynn

Two students at UW-Stevens Point have been awarded forestry scholarships.

The Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association this week announced it has awarded a $5,000 scholarship to both Sydney Ellis, of Irma, Wis., and Berlin native Garret Dament. Both are studying forest management at UWSP.

Ellis plans to graduate in May 2023 and take a job in the private sector of forestry. During the summer of 2021, she completed the six-week summer field experience session at Treehaven where she was able to gain hands-on practice of natural resources topics she’d been studying in the classroom.

Ellis is working towards completing an internship with the United States Forest Service in Lakewood, Wis., as a forestry technician.

The WWOA said it was Ellis’s “strong motivation and desire to be a successful forester” that got her the scholarship.

Dament also plans to graduate in May 2023, with a forest management degree and a minor in business administration. He plans to take a job with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and later on, work in his family’s logging operation.

Dament received an associate’s degree in natural resources from Fox Valley Technical College in 2020, the transferred to UWSP to continue his education.

He received a scholarship because of his “strong determination to achieve his goals through education and provide services to Wisconsin private woodland owners,” the WWOA said in a news release.

WWOA is a nonprofit, educational association assisting Wisconsin’s private woodland owners in creating a legacy through sustainable woodland management. Its members receive Wisconsin Woodlands quarterly magazine, are invited to local chapter field days to network, and receive weekly “Learn Something New” emails on a variety of woodland topics.

Learn more about WWOA at wisconsinwoodlands.org.