2022 Webinar Series
Winter Forest Walk: Forestry for the Birds
March TBD
Location: Maniha Property, Petersham MA.
Speakers: Mike Barry, Professional Forester
Andrew Rawcliffe, Service Forester, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation, Bureau of Forest Fire Control and Forestry
Mike Barry and Andrew Rawcliffe will lead the walk and describe how to assess foresters for bird habitat. We will see different stands in which forestry was used to improve habitat for birds at risk.
Link to the Foresters for the Birds Information
Winter Forest Walk: Indicators of Forest Health
March 5, Saturday form 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Location: Cedar Hill at Crane Swamp in Marlborough/Northboro.
Speakers: Laura Mattei, Director of Stewardship, Sudbury Valley Trustees
Laura Mattei will lead the walk and describe indicators of forest health. We will see these indicators as we visit two forest stands where we can compare their differences in forest health.
Cedar Hill, Marlborough/Northborough
For the north entrance, take Route 495 to exit 62 (Simarano Drive exit). Continue to the lights at the end of the exit ramp. Take a left at the lights onto Simarano Drive. Continue to another set of lights and take a right onto Cedar Hill Street. Parking for the reservation is at 360 Cedar Hill Street. The entrance will be on your left across from Forest Street. There is ample parking, labeled with SVT signs, immediately on your right. A trail easement, marked by posts and SVT markers leads around the wetlands and to a kiosk behind the buildings.
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Link to Cedar Hill trail map and info:
https://www.svtweb.org/properties/page/cedar-hill-and-sawink-farm-northborough-and-westborough
Link to the Forest Health booklet.
Lunch Time Webinar: How Can a Forester Help You?
Watch on Demand
Friday February 25, 2022 at 12:00 noon
Speaker: Joe Smith, owner of Woodsman, Inc., Professional Forester
Winter Forest Walk: Long and Short Term Views
Wednesday, February 16, at 12:00-2:00pm
Location: West Street & Poduck Road, East Brookfield, MA
Speakers:
- Craig Masterman, Yankee Woodlands, Professional Forester
- Chris Capone, Service Forester, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation / Bureau of Forest Fire Control and Forestry
- Dylan Kirk, Conservation Planner Natural Resources Conservation Service/American Farmland Trust
We will visit a forest stand that has been managed for 25 years to see the successful results of forest management. We will visit a forest stand that was just cut in December 2021 to discuss the immediate impacts of tree cutting. We will visit another stand that has been marked with paint for cutting and discuss the future vision for the forest. Topics of discussion will include risks and considerations when making decisions about forest management, benefits of forests.
Lunch Time Webinar: New England’s Changing Forests
Friday, February 11, 2022 at 12:00 noon.
Speaker: Jonathan Thompson, Senior Ecologist at Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Jonathan Thompson will discuss three centuries of change in New England’s forests. After a brief discussion of the landscape’s history, he will focus on the impacts from climate change and modern land use, including forest loss, harvesting, and conservation.
Forestry Walk Flat Rock Wildlife Sanctuary – Pitch Pine Heathland Restoration Project
Saturday January 22, 2022. 10 am – 12:00 pm
Location Crocker Conservation Area
215 Flat Rock Road
Fitchburg, MA
Join a free public site walk hosted by Mass Audubon, North County Land Trust, and the Worcester County Conservation District, on Saturday, January 22 at 10 am.
Mass Audubon’s Senior Conservation Ecologist Tom Lautzenheiser will lead the walk and describe the project to support the sanctuary’s distinctive ridge top pitch pine heathland.
Also, the walk will pass through NCLT’s Crocker Conservation Area, where a timber harvest was completed in 2012. NCLT will talk about the goals around the cut and the benefits that they’ve seen from careful forestry.
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