LOVELL – The Western Maine Chapter of the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine will host a walk-through tour of the Duncan Howlett lot at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 18.

Over the winter and finishing in early spring, a pine harvest was conducted on 100 acres of the more than 300-acre SWOAM land trust lot. The conventional harvest removed approximately 50 percent of the standing timber.

Coffee and doughnuts will be available at 8:30 a.m. at the site located three miles in on the Old Waterford Road, which is across from the Lovell Country Club, Route 5. Signs will be posted. The tour is open to the public.

For more information, contact chapter President Bill Haynes at 583-2963 or [email protected].

New icons

AUGUSTA – Effective immediately, the Maine Department of Transportation has activated new “Road Closure,” “Lane Closure” and “Section Affected” icons on its 511 Travel Information System Web site, www.511Maine.gov.

The new refinements have been included in the All Advisories, Major Delays and Commercial Vehicles tabs on the 511 home page. The new “Road Closure” and “Lane Closure” icons offer users the ability to distinguish situations of a lesser magnitude and make it easier to identify road closures during construction activities and storm events.

Shooting clinic

NORTH BERWICK – The National Rifle Association’s Women on Target program will sponsor an instructional shooting clinic for women only from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18 at the North Berwick Rod and Gun Club, 32 Butler Road.

The cost is $10 a person. To register, contact clinic coordinator Stephen Rand at 646-3472 or [email protected]. All necessary equipment will be provided by the club, including firearms, ammunition and eye/ear protection.

The clinic will feature training in the safe handling of pistols, rifles and shotguns to help participants learn the fundamentals of shooting in a relaxing and fun-filled environment.

For more information about NRA’s Women on Target events, call 1-800-861-1166 or visit www.nrahq.org/women/wot.asp.

Conference

ORONO – The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies will host a one-day conference on Thursday, June 30, at the Bangor Civic Center to help people understand autism, learn about educational approaches to autism and build relationships with parents and professionals interested in providing quality autism interventions for the children of Maine.

Information and registration materials are available by calling 1-800-203-6957 (voice/TTY) or at: http://www.umaine.edu/cci/autism/.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Barry Prizant, who has more than 30 years experience as a clinical scholar, researcher and program consultant to young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and related disabilities.

Volunteers

GRAFTON, N.H. – Appalachian Mountain Club is looking for volunteer trail crews. One-day to three-week crews are available, with no trail maintenance skills necessary. Contact [email protected] or 603-466-2721, ext. 210, for more information and to register.

The crews help the nonprofit club, the nation’s oldest conservation and recreation organization, maintain 1,400 miles of trails region-wide. For a full schedule of trails projects and workshops, visit http://www.outdoors.org/trails/volunteer/trailopps/vol-crews-schedule.cfm.