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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 ...
Shagbark Hickory
- by Dave Schroeder Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) is one of four hickories found in Connecticut. Of the four it is probably the most easily recognized. The large plates of bark which tend to bend away from the trunk and ...
Invasive Plants Change Expected Pathways of Plant Succession
- by Charlotte Pyle, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service You probably have observed that in recent years there have been some new twists to the textbook model of plant succession. In the textbook model of old field succession, abandoned farm ...
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
- by Carole Cheah, Ph.D. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, c/o USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 51 Mill Pond Rd, Hamden, CT 06514 Heavy infestation. Fig.1. Heavy infestation Fig.4. Close up of HWA nymph Fig.5. Hatching HWA crawlers Fig. 6. ...
Yellow-Poplar
- By David Schroeder Yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) also known as tuliptree, tulip-poplar, and whitewood, is one of the more impressive occupants of Connecticut’s forests. This member of the magnolia family is among the fastest growing and tallest of our eastern hardwoods with ...
Two-Thirds of New Englander’s Place Nature over Timber as Priority for Forests
- By Kate Stewart (202-822-6090), Belden Russonello & Stewart and Jeff McCord (540-364-4769), McCord & Associates A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Forests of Northern New England found that Northern New Englanders are five times (65 percent) more likely to ...