2500 Tarbell Hill Road
Cavendish
VT
The Vermont Forestry Foundation will hold a Regeneration Harvesting in a Challenging Environment silviculture workshop featuring shelterwood systems in Cavendish, Vermont on May 4th from 8:30 AM-3:30 PM.
We will be reviewing the shelterwood system and its variations in Cavendish VT on 4 lots, with three stops. We start with a traditional pine shelterwood, establishment cut in 2009, and removal cut last fall (Oscarson lot). We will see uncut areas, pine and hardwood regeneration released, and some overstory retention areas.
The next stop will see pine with long term thinning and understory establishment (Stowell lot), and then deferred shelterwood in pine with advanced hardwood regeneration where the overstory has been recently removed (Stewart lot). These pine stands are transitional to northern hardwoods.
Our final stop (Puska lot; with lunch) will be a northern hardwood-hemlock stand with 2016 treatments ranging from clearcut, low density shelterwood, standard density shelterwood, and uncut areas including hemlock retention. This was previously high-graded with advanced beech regeneration and will give us a wide range of treatments to review with regeneration getting started.
Schedule:
8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Registration and greetings. 1st location
9:00 AM-12:30 PM: Introductory session and tour of 1st and 2nd locations.
12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Catered BBQ chicken lunch and discussion of current markets. 3rd location.
1:30 PM-3:30 PM: View recent harvest units, returning about 3:30 PM.
An informal discussion and beverages will follow.
Speakers:
Bill Leak: USFS silviculturist, Durham office
Mariko Yamasaki: USFS wildlife biologist, Durham office
Ken Desmarias USFS silviculturist
Sam Schneski, Vermont FPR, county forester
Steve Hardy: Green Mountain Forestry, private consulting forester
Robbo Holleran: managing forester, president of Vermont Forestry Foundation
George Weir private consulting forester (invited)
Jeff Tilly USFS Green Mountain NF
Mass DCR invited
Cost is $50 per person (students $25) including a catered BBQ chicken lunch for those who pre-register by April 27th.
Walk-in registration: Cash or check only. BYO chair and bug repellent. Workshop will be held rain or shine.
Continuing Ed credits are being arranged for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, LEAP and SAF
Checks should be made out to Vermont Forestry Foundation and sent with registration forms to Kristen Dietrich, Green Mountain Forestry, 1037 Western Avenue, Suite 6, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
For more information contact Robbo Holleran at 802-875-3021 or email robbo@vermontel.net