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Musings on a Forest Management Plan
- by S. Pearce Browning, III, M.D. First, every forest or woodlot is unique. They vary in size, soil types, tree population, amount of brook and wetland, the access roads, the impact of prior natural catastrophic processes, and lastly, what ...
Black Locust
- by David Schroeder Black locust's (Robinia pseudoacacia) home range was initially in the north-central U.S. However, it was widely planted and is now naturalized in most of the eastern part of the country, including Connecticut. It probably owes its ...
This is Nuts!
- By Tom Worthley, UCONN Cooperative Extension I hate to admit it, but I’ve been mowing down a lot of oak trees this summer. When you think about the difficulty we have, what with the deer and all, keeping oaks ...
Logging the Rad Ostby Memorial Forest
Logging the Rad Ostby Memorial Forest - by Art Talmadge, Connwood Foresters Inc The Rad Ostby Memorial Forest is being logged. That's right - logged. In January of 2003 Wolf Den Land Trust contracted with Connwood Foresters, Inc for the ...
Forest Land Enhancement Program
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Forestry The 2002 Farm Bill included a provision for a new program, the Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP) to be administered by the USDA Forest Service through the State Foresters. In Connecticut, FLEP ...
Forestry and Logging in Connecticut: What Every Landowner Should Know – Part I
(Part I) - by Jasmine Wolf Few people sell saw timber on a regular basis and few of us know the value of the different species of trees, how many board feet actually come from a tree or which trees ...
Farm Gates 101
- by Dennis Hodgin Author’s note: I have learned a few things related to gates over the years and plan to share some of the better ideas with you in a series of short articles. The following is the first ...
Yale-Myers Forest
- by Sue and John Leavitt The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (YF&ES) owns and manages 10,880 acres of forestland in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Thesemake up seven forests of which th e Yale-Myers Forest in Woodstock, ...
Weaving a Landscape
- By Robert M. Thorson, Professor of Geology & Geophysics University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2045 Stone walling is a New England tradition. It’s a lot like weaving. Neither is necessary in today’s urgent, electronic society, yet they persist. They ...
What is a Southern New England Professional Logger Certificate?
- By Michael J. Bartlett, Forest Resources Manager, Hull Forest Products, Inc. In 1995 AF&PA, the American Forest & Paper Association, embarked on a forest certification program called the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, SFI. One of the requirements of the SFI ...