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  • Acclaimed Cottrell-Baldwin Environmental Lecture Series Starts in March

    Anna Berry
    February 22, 2021

    The annual series has moved online this year, with experts exploring topics ranging from restoring wildlife habitat to foraging for edible native plants.

  • Forest Journal: Wood Warms You Twice — At Least

    Dave Anderson
    February 16, 2021

    There’s a comforting quality to homegrown wood heat — flickering flames — whether it’s a backyard campfire or for home heating.

  • Bend But Don't Break - How Trees Survive Northern Winters

    Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Emily Quirk
    February 12, 2021

    When winter precipitation includes heavy wet snow or ice storms bring freezing rain, trees must endure the weather conditions. Some are better adapted than others and coping strategies vary by tree species.

Forester Gabe Roxby Contributes to Conversation on Forestry & Art

Anna Berry
February 27, 2021
Working Forests
A preview of David Paul Bayles' website, including images from "Sap in Their Veins."
A preview of David Paul Bayles' website, including images from "Sap in Their Veins."

In February, Forest Society staff forester Gabe Roxby was invited to participate in a virtual panel discussion focusing on the intersection of forestry and art. The event was organized and hosted by New England College and featured the work of photographer David Paul Bayles. 

Bayles' exhibit, titled “Sap in their Veins,” focused on a logging community in the Pacific Northwest that he was a part of in the 1970s. The panel included a discussion of some of the social, economic, and environmental topics related to forestry, and was, in part, aimed at telling personal stories of those involved in logging as a way to de-polarize the subject. 

Bayles focuses on landscapes where the needs of forests and human pursuits often collide, sometimes coexist and on occasion find harmony. Some of his projects utilize a documentary approach while others use a more contemporary art practice. Bayles’ deep connection with trees was forged in the mid seventies when he left the suburbs of Los Angeles to work four years as a logger in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He currently lives and photographs in the Coast range of western Oregon, where highly efficient industrialized working forests supplanted the massive old growth forests many decades ago. 

Gabe Roxby poses outside for a photo.Gabe and the other panelists engaged with students and faculty, and were able to speak on some of the similarities and differences in forest composition and management styles between the forests of New Hampshire and those of the Pacific Northwest. Gabe has been a field forester for the Forest Society since 2012, after graduating from UNH with a M.S. in Natural Resources and a focus in Forestry.

"Collaborating with local colleges helps fulfill the Forest Society’s mission to educate communities across the state about sustainable forestry and working forests," Field Forester Gabe Roxby said.

Thank you to New England College for the invitation and we hope to work with their students and those from other schools on more projects like this in the future!

  • To learn more about David Paul Bayles' art, you can visit his website page on the "Sap in Their Veins" exhibit or see his latest creations on his Instagram page.

 

 

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