Robert V. Smith Memorial
- By Jeff Perkins, ECFLA President I thought my task would be fairly easy to write an article about the death of Bob Smith: just put down all the great things he did for ECFLA/WDLT, write about what an interesting ...
Some Hope for Your ATV Problems
- By Dennis Hodgin Based on my own experience and conversations with other landowners in Connecticut, the “ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) Problem” is becoming a major issue. ATV’s can be operated legally in Connecticut only on private land and then ...
Atlantic White-Cedar
By Dave Schroeder Atlantic white-cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), also called white-cedar or swamp cedar, is usually found growing in fairly dense stands in swamps, bogs and, occasionally along streams. Its range is along the Atlantic coast in a belt, 50 to ...
Starting the Land Protection Process: A Few Baby Steps for Forest (and Farm) Owners
- by Steve Broderick As Connecticut’s Extension Forester, it’s been my privilege to meet many hundreds of forest landowners. Over time, many of them have come to love their land, and would love to know it will remain undeveloped after ...
Sassafras
-by David Schroeder Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is one of the most easily identified trees in Connecticut. The aromatic leaves are usually Sassafrasone of three distinct shapes: three lobed, mitten shaped (both right and left handed mittens) and unlobed. Twigs are ...
Invasives. Great Infestations: Connecticut ‘s Response to Green Invaders
- Excerpted from April 2002, CT Council on Environmental Quality The second biggest threat to Connecticut 's natural habitats is invasion by alien plants and animals (behind loss of habitat to sprawling land development.) With few natural enemies, these species ...
Connecticut State Lands Habitat Management Program – Part II
- By Paul Rothbart, DEP Wildlife Division Part II Early Successional Stage Vegetation Management The Habitat Management Program manages a diversity of early successional stage habitats comprised of old field, grassland, and agriculture. These habitats are rapidly declining due ...
Connecticut’s Forest Legacy Problem
- by Fred Borman III, Program Specialist I, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Forestry Forest fragmentation and parcelization are two of the top issues that concern State Foresters in the Northeast. Fragmentation is the breaking up of contiguous ...
American Beech
- by Dave Schroeder American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is one of the most easily recognized trees in the forests of Connecticut. Its smooth, light gray to blue gray bark is like no other tree found in these parts. The terminal ...
Even-Aged? It’s all how you look at it….
- by Tom Worthley, UCONN Cooperative Extension I know a fellow in Eastern Connecticut, a forest landowner like many of you. He has been told by a professional CT-Certified Forester that the mixed-oak stand on his property is “even-aged”. Red, ...