What Constitutes a Healthy Forest?
In March, 2021, Peter and I had the opportunity to organize a day-long training for the annual Water Quality Symposium (annual conference of SWCD and NRCS professionals from around NY) titled: "Restoring Ecological and Productive Function to Woodlands". Forester friends Jeff Jourdain and Joe Orefice helped with that technical training for professionals. Joe is back in the news for continued education on that topic: https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/healthy-forests-its-never...
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Permalink Reply by Tim Levatich on
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Good article and a nice short read. We all need to be able to clearly convey these ideas to our families, friends, and acquaintances.
Thanks for posting it, Brett!
Tim
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Permalink Reply by Lew Ward on
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This is one of. the best article that covers the key points of the controversy between management and no management-letting human altered nature take its course.
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Permalink Reply by Diane Frances on
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Peter, will you be offering this training again? Perhaps to small forest owners?
Thank you,
Diane
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