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![The team behind Something Wild.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/SW_teamphoto_SophieOehlerphoto_6-1-22_0.jpeg?h=36a430d7&itok=gjen8f87)
Something Wild Celebrates 25 Years on NHPR
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Something Wild on NHPR.
- Tags:
- Wildlife,
- Forestry,
- Something Wild
![Managing Forester Wendy Weisiger and field forester Gabe Roxby on a timber harvest tour.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/TimberHarvestTour_staff_Wendytalking_Rindge_MariaFinneganphoto_2-23-22.jpg?h=5dc9785f&itok=lfbL5qQp)
Forestry Friday: Foresters Exchange Ideas at Annual Meeting
The morning started with updates from Forest Society’s president Jack Savage.
- Tags:
- Forestry
![Blaze orange clad group view a logging machine in hemlock forest](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/RESIZED%25201%2520Wendy%2520Weisiger.jpg?h=0992e954&itok=wWTDicp3)
Public Goes Behind the Scenes of a Timber Harvest at Wilkins-Campbell Forest
Forester Gabe Roxby explained several of the wildlife habitat, soil, and water quality considerations of the timber harvest.
![Forest Society Manager Forester Wendy Weisiger helps teach a participant who is driving a tractor.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/WIW_events_tractorworkshop_Wendywattendee_10-18-22_courtesyUNHExtension.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=uqWMpQrO)
Women in the Woods Program Educates on Safe Tractor Use on Woodlots
The program is aimed at connecting women forest landowners, managers, and stewards with new resources and skills.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Working Forests
![colorful hikers, fall foliage along shore of Morrill Marsh pond, Wilmot](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/resize%2520Pondshore%2520group%2520on%2520tour.jpg?h=0992e954&itok=C4Td__lo)
Tree Farm Field Day: Colorful Autumn Tradition
Tree Farm of the year hosts annual field day.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Working Forests
![A forester looks up with binoculars.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/FF_FemaleAshTreesearch_lookingup_photoGabeRoxby_RS_9-22-22%2520.jpg?h=a6a9b101&itok=mua3HwDs)
Forestry Friday: Searching for Female Ash Trees
Since a single ash tree is either a male or a female (in some tree species this isn’t the case and a tree may have both male and female parts), it will be important to make sure we leave some of each uncut during the harvest, to provide the species an opportunity to pollinate and set viable seed.
![Looking up at white ash crows in the Monadnock reservation.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/FF_FemaleAshTreessearch_Ash%2520Crowns%2520Monadnock_RS_%2520S.Thorne%25209.16.22.jpg?h=0992e954&itok=0L9fax08)
A Poem: White Ash Lament
A poem about searching for female white ash trees and beseeching them to survive.
- Tags:
- Forestry