5 Route 9
Windsor
MA
What do you do with a woodland that was high-graded for decades under previous owners?
High-grading is the destructive forestry practice where short-sighted logging repeatedly removes the highest value trees from a woodland while leaving poorly formed low value trees to become the future forest. This common practice results in woodlands increasingly full of low value trees.
Dealing with the effects of high-grading will be the focus of a Where to Begin: When Forest Conditions Don’t meet your Goals Walk the Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts will hold with renowned Vermont forester Ethan Tapper on a 100-acre woodland off Route 9 in Windsor on Sunday, April 16th, from 10 am to Noon.
Tapper is the award-winning author of “How to Love a Forest”, which describes his own efforts to restore a high-graded woodland he bought in Vermont.
On this walk, Tapper and Dicken Crane, the new owner of the woodland, will discuss the challenges of managing a site that has been high-graded for decades, and how to create a strategy for forest health and resilience in the degraded forest.
To take part in this walk, email bwarrington@newenglandforestry.org by April 24th.
The tour will meet at 5 Route 9 (formerly Dalton Hardwoods) in Windsor. Participants should wear sturdy footware, dress for the weather and take precautions against ticks