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  • Welcome, Seasonal Staff!

    Anna Berry
    June 1, 2023

    The Forest Society recently welcomed three seasonal staff members to the team.

  • Forestry Field Trip to Learn More About Beech Leaf Disease

    Steven Junkin
    May 19, 2023

    Forest Society Foresters Wendy, Steve and Gabe all recently attended a field visit to Bear Brook State Park to see the beech leaf disease outbreak ...

  • Forestry Friday: Why Bees Need Forests Too

    Gabe Roxby
    April 7, 2023

    A new study estimates that one-third of our native bees in the northeast are forest specialists, taking advantage of the nectar and pollen produced by trees and spring ephemerals in the forest understory.

Forestry Friday: Before & After a Timber Harvest

Gabe Roxby
April 8, 2022
Forestry
Working Forests
Four growing seasons after the timber harvest, white pine seedlings are abundant.
Four growing seasons after the timber harvest, white pine seedlings are abundant.
Forester Gabe Roxby recently checked in on a Forest Society property where we conducted a timber harvest in 2017 — the Diehl Family Forest in Lempster.
Part of the harvest was an 8-acre “low density shelterwood” harvest aimed at regenerating white pine.
This harvest removed perhaps 85% of the trees, leaving healthy white pines with strong crowns.
 
Trees left after a low density shelterwood harvest in 2017.
A 2017 photo of the forest after a “low density shelterwood” harvest was conducted in 2017, aimed at regenerating white pine.
The harvest was purposefully scheduled to coincide with a plentiful white pine cone crop, which resulted in millions of pine seeds dropping to the forest floor. The harvest machinery disturbed the duff layer and exposed the mineral soil, allowing the seeds to germinate.
 
The result, four growing seasons later, is an amazing carpet of white pine seedlings. Mixed in are a few hardwoods, mostly pin cherry and trembling aspen, along with some scattered balsam fir and red spruce. But for the most part, there are white pine seedlings as far as the eye can see!
A sign for Diehl Forest is surrounding by saplings.
The Diehl Family Forest in Lempster today.
 
 
  • To learn more about the Forest Society's timber harvest work, visit https://forestsociety.org/timber-harvesting.
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