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![The text says What's Wrong with this tree?! and the photo shows a yellowing pine.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-06/wwwtt_pinecast_2024.jpg?h=57024e64&itok=JJlBBQUn)
Forestry Focus: What's Wrong With This Tree?!
This June we’re seeing a dramatic “browning” of white pine needles across the region, and many people have been asking what could be creating this change.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Working Forests,
- Climate
![Matt and Donovan pose outside behind a rock wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-06/staff_DonovanandMatthewoutside_2024.jpg?h=c3c25ece&itok=Gsd3cApm)
Meet our Seasonal Staff Members
With so much to accomplish during our field season, we're lucky to have their experience and expertise contributing to our work.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Stewardship,
- Recreation
![The United States Capitol Building seen above a foreground of deciduous trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/USCapitolBuilding_Trees_CreditKyleRushFlickrCreativeCommons_830px.jpg?h=61ad2bfb&itok=oq3c0bwZ)
Forest Advocate: Support the Bartlett and Massabesic Experimental Forests
We urge you to contact the USFS to ask the agency to continue the long-term and peer-reviewed research at both these centers.
- Tags:
- Advocacy,
- Working Forests,
- Forestry
![The shrimp in their natural habitat](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/2024-03/PXL_20240227_162550312.jpg?h=6f0d5f13&itok=jzocyK38)
Forestry Friday: Fairy Shrimp: The Sea Monkeys of Vernal Pools
The only place you can find them in New England is in certain vernal pools with cold, deep, clean water.
- Tags:
- Wildlife,
- Forestry,
- Working Forests
![A green grapple skidder parked on log landing at active winter timber harvest](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/RESIZED%2520grapple%2520skidder%2520Peirce%2520Forest.%2520Photo%2520Ryan%2520Smith.jpg?h=82f92a78&itok=nl3UouYw)
Timber Harvesting on the Forest Society's Peirce Forest Reservation
The harvest is taking place in a portion of less than 500 acres located on the southern portion of the larger protected forest.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Climate,
- Working Forests
![A woman wearing a blue backpack walks through a thicket of vegetation](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/gardnerforestwalk-30.jpg?h=e11ece98&itok=ydvqNNgt)
Forest Notes: The Rare Milkweed Garden at the Gardner Forest
In this Forestry Friday, the forestry team takes a trip to the Gardener Forest in Hollis to check in on a population of a rare species of milkweed. (Photo: Sophie Oehler)
![New England Cottontail Habitat Management](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/20230926_162334%2520-%2520Copy.jpg?h=9a3874b6&itok=3Zm8D6aQ)
Forestry Focus: Habitat Management With Hand Tools
A partnership between groups and agencies helped prevent the New England cottontail from being listed in the Endangered Species Act.
- Tags:
- Forestry
![Participants view logging machinery in woods](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Forestry%2520demonstration%2520field%2520trip.%2520Photo%2520by%2520Dave%2520Anderson.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=q7jiF23u)
"Good Forestry in the Granite State" is Being Revised — Take the Survey
A steering committee representing landowners, conservation organizations, state agencies and the forest industry is guiding the process.
- Tags:
- Forestry,
- Working Forests