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UVM professor Bill Keeton (center) leads students through forest sampling protocol<\/p><\/div>\n

Every year brings changes to the Lydia Spitzer Demonstration Demonstration Forest at NorthWoods, but\u00a02015 marked some especially exciting progress! With the field season winding down, fall is a great time\u00a0to reflect on our accomplishments over the past year.<\/p>\n

Our Forest Stewardship program launched into summer with the completion of our updated forest\u00a0management plan, and acceptance of the Spitzer Forest into the Forest Guild Model Forest program.<\/p>\n

The mission of the Model Forest program is to \u201crecognize places, people, and relationships that foster\u00a0sustainable forest management and demonstrate successful silviculture,\u201d falling in perfect alignment\u00a0with our own goals for the Spitzer Forest. Becoming part of the Model Forest program involved a written\u00a0application, submission of management and certification documents, and a late-winter site visit with a\u00a0review committee of Vermont Guild foresters. Check out our updated webpage to read more about\u00a0these accomplishments (and to see a new slideshow of photos from the Spitzer Forest!).<\/p>\n

And even with a rainy start, summer was a fantastic time to get boots on the ground in the forest. In\u00a0early July, UVM professor Bill Keeton visited NorthWoods with his graduate and undergraduate research\u00a0team to continue data collection in our Silviculture for the Birds timber harvest area. This research\u00a0project will look at Silviculture for the Birds harvests<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Norway spruce with balsam fir regeneration, prior to timber harvesting<\/p><\/div>\n

around the state, evaluating post-harvest habitat\u00a0structural elements and looking at implications at a landscape level. We\u2019re excited to have the Spitzer\u00a0Forest included in this research and look forward to seeing what they find out! NorthWoods staff also\u00a0continued annual monitoring of bird species in these harvest areas, following protocol from Audubon\u00a0Vermont. Being just two years out from the harvest, we haven\u2019t seen a major shift in species, but did\u00a0observe 28 species including scarlet tanager, one of our focal species for habitat enhancement.<\/p>\n

On the other side of Tripp Hill, our Forest Stewardship staff (with planning\/preparation help from Dan\u00a0Kilborn from the Vermont Land Trust) are currently working on a low-impact ecological timber harvest in\u00a0a Norway spruce plantation. Softwood plantations are productive for growing timber and are a quick\u00a0way to convert fields back to forest (as this area was around 1970), but typically lack diversity of species\u00a0and structure. Our silvicultural plan for crown thinning and small group selections will diversify\u00a0structure, promote regeneration of native hardwood\/softwood species, and give remaining trees space\u00a0to thrive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Harvesting Norway spruce while carefully protecting the next generation of saplings<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019re also giving special attention to the long-term resilience of this stand in a changing\u00a0climate (NorthWoods now includes climate change considerations in our forest management plans) by\u00a0using durable trails that won\u2019t erode in heavy storms, encouraging growth of a structurally strong forest\u00a0that holds up to wind\/ice damage, and promoting tree species that will fare better in the predicted\u00a0\u201cnew\u201d climate. In late August, a group of visitors saw all of this in action at an Ecological Timber\u00a0Harvesting Demonstration where we demonstrated low-impact logging techniques while discussing the\u00a0rhyme and reason for this harvest. With several Forest Guild members in attendance, we followed the\u00a0harvest tour with a brief celebration of NorthWoods\u2019 recognition as a Guild Model Forest.<\/p>\n

And for those of you who enjoy our many miles of recreational trails through the Spitzer Forest, we\u00a0made great strides in maintaining and adding trails with help from an AmeriCorps NCCC (National\u00a0Civilian Community Corps) crew! The crew worked hard this summer to clear trails from our Echo Lake\u00a0Road and central campus trailheads. Check out the article in this newsletter to learn more about the\u00a0NCCC crew, or come for a walk on the trails to enjoy their work!<\/p>\n

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