Understanding Timber Harvesting
Saturday, January 11, 2020, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
End of Economou Road, Huntington
Throughout our lives, most of us have been inundated with negative information about logging – close your eyes and you can probably picture big clear cuts, mudslides and more scenes of environmental devastation. However, modern forest management is worlds apart from the logging that most people have been exposed to. Done well, modern forest management, through the harvesting of trees, can be restorative and regenerative, helping create more diverse, vibrant, resilient forests with better wildlife habitat, help forests recover from the effects of human land use and restoring old-growth attributes sooner than they would naturally occur. At the same time, forest management generates local, renewable resources which get turned into building materials, paper, power and more. Like local food, local wood is an asset in that it supports our working landscape and our rural communities and mitigates the transportation and use of resources, produced under potentially more adverse ecological and social conditions, from elsewhere in the country or the world.
Join us for "Understanding Timber Harvesting," a walk of an active timber harvest at the Hinesburg Town Forest (HTF) with Ethan Tapper, Chittenden County Forester, co-sponsored by City Market Coop in Burlington. The HTF is an 864-acre forest owned by the Town of Hinesburg and managed for wildlife, recreation, water, air, carbon sequestration and as a site for the demonstration of modern, responsible forest management. We will walk the timber harvest area and talk about forests, forest management, and forest ecology. Please bring an open mind, warm clothes, and all those questions you've never had a chance to ask about logging and forest management.
This walk is free and open to all, but registration is requested. You can register at: http://www.citymarket.coop/calendar/2020-01-11/understanding-timber-harvesting and/or meet at 1:00 PM on 1/11 at the plow turnaround at the end of Economou Road, Huntington. This walk will happen "rain (snow, mud) or shine." Participants should be ready to spend a couple hours outdoors walking over uneven and potentially slippery surfaces in whatever weather we find ourselves in, and also to spend extended periods of time standing and talking.
And don't forget Tues Jan 7:
Forestry for the Birds at the Hinesburg Town Forest
Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Carpenter-Carse Library, 69 Ballards Corner, Hinesburg, VT
If you have any questions about either of these events, please feel free to contact me directly by phone or email (below).
Best,
J. Ethan Tapper
Chittenden County Forester
Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation
111 West Street
Essex, VT 05452
(802)-585-9099
Ethan.Tapper@vermont.gov
VT Licensed Forester # 148.0122047
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