As well as being the member picnic, this will be our annual member meeting with election of officers.
We expect to have a short presentation about the Master Forest Owner Program followed by a short hike into the woods - on these walks there is always sharing of knowledge and individual experience about the natural world around us.
The focus will be on an area where a timber harvest was conducted in 2023 and we will see how the forest has regenerated in areas of past management, and in the most recent harvest area.
Things to see: a portable sawmill operation, a 4-story barn re-habilitation project utilizing timber from the woods and, If conditions permit, we will get a a peek at a blackgum bog.
Learn about fruit and bush pruning.
Identify invasive plants now!
Community Forestry at its finest.
Rensselaerville State Forest is a good example for softwood plantation management and has a variety of treatments that have occurred over the years (strip cuts, intermediate thinning, overstory removals, etc.) and ongoing work.
Beebe Hill State Forest is primarily hardwoods which recently had an intermediate thinning to prepare for the regeneration harvest.
