Articles about stuff people with forestland care about
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, ...