Hi all,
As those of you who have been to my events know, I'm fascinated by old growth forests, what they tell us about the way that forests naturally grow and develop and how we can use active management to make our relatively young forests more like old growth forests. I'm excited to get to talk about this topic (virtually) next Wednesday in partnership with City Market. This will also be another opportunity for folks to learn about the upcoming forest management project at the Andrews Community Forest in Richmond, a property on which we're doing active management starting this month to make forests there more like old growth forests. Please share with anyone who may be interested and I hope to see you there!

Old Growth Forests:
What They Are, Why They're Important, and Opportunities for Management
Wednesday, August 19
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Old growth forests can be defined as forested ecosystems which have developed somewhat independently over a long time, usually at least several centuries. In addition to being beautiful demonstrations of how forests naturally grow and develop, old growth forests are incredibly valuable for our landscape. They are diverse and resilient, feature amazing habitat opportunities for wildlife, provide clean air and clean water and store more carbon than the relatively young forests that dominate Vermont's landscape today. Vermont contains very little old growth forest today, although ecologists have placed an ideal target of at 6.7% of Vermont's landscape (9% of our forests) to be maintained as "old forest."
Join Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, for a discussion of old growth forests. Ethan will discuss what old growth forests are like (it may surprise you!), why they should be important to us, and what our role may be in helping develop new old growth on our landscape.
In addition to allowing forests to grow and develop into old growth on their own, new research has highlighted opportunities to manage forests actively to become more like old growth forests sooner than they would naturally. Combined with an ecological forestry approach, this presents an opportunity to manage forests while increasing biodiversity, resiliency and overall health. Ethan will discuss opportunities for employing this approach across Vermont's landscape.
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