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News

  • Forestry Friday: Rockingham County Champion Red Pine

    Steven Junkin
    June 9, 2023

    Old trees have lots to tell in their growth rings.

  • 2023 Tree Farmer of the Year: Colleen O'Neill

    Rita Carroll
    April 5, 2023

    Langwood Tree Farm has participated in the N.H. Tree Farm program since 1979

  • Forestry Friday: Watching for Beech Leaf Disease

    Steven Junkin
    March 31, 2023

    Our foresters share what they learned at a NE meeting of foresters.

All Systems Go

Foresters are out working in the woods
Wendy Weisiger
March 17, 2020
Working Forests
Timber Harvesting
Thin trees with the summit of Gap Mountain behind.
Its a good time to review winter logging activity and plan for future forestry.

In other news from the Woods...

With all of the challenges facing the forest products industry, right now loggers and foresters can feel good about their chosen profession. I’ve talked to many of my colleagues who have had to do very little to change their work flow during this pandemic.

Social Distancing is already a part of our job. Being out in nature is our life. “Stay six feet away from other people” sometimes seems awful close to us!

Most of us already work from home offices. 

Early spring is the best time to be out in the woods marking timber, evaluating woodlots, and preparing work for the coming year.

We typically work alone in the woods or with a colleague who may be a mile apart from us in the woods. Sometimes our partner is a four-legged furry one.

 

Two of our Forest Society field foresters, Gabe Roxby and Steve Junkin, spent time this week out flagging boundary lines together on a woodlot in Lempster.

The only real difference in their day was not carpooling to maintain social distancing protocols. We’ll consider the added emissions to be offset by spending their office time working from home. 

 

The consulting foresters I’ve spoken with are all quite busy writing management plans and marking timber while the leaves are still gone and the bugs haven’t arrived (except for those darn ticks!).

Loggers are mostly pulled out of the woods for spring and are performing maintenance on their equipment or if they are lucky enough to have a spring mud lot they are still working. I saw several loads of wood moving up the highway yesterday so truckers are trucking and doing their best to keep the NH economy strong. 

 

Wendy Weisiger is the Forest Society's managing forester.

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