Mike,
It continues to be very disappointing to me that state forestry officials are solidly on the bandwagon when it comes to calling for more early successional habitat. I suspect that it comes down to their fear that if they aren't able to do a lot more cutting in the State's forests, they will eventually have to go out and look for new jobs. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Leonard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:50:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: restoring old growth characteristics That brochure wants to encourage landowners to manage for older growth which is a good thing . At the same time some forestry programs are paying landowners to clearcut some of their forest for wildlife because they say there is a dearth of early successional habitat. The truth is the shortage of older forests is real while the shortage of early successional habitat is a myth. Here is a link to the state ’ s old growth policy: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship/forestry/docs/oldgrwpol.pdf Mike -----Original Message----- From: entstr...@googl egroups.com [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Joseph Zorzin Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:24 AM To: ENTS Subject: [ENTS] restoring old growth characteristics http://masswoods.net/images/stories/pdf/Restoring_Old_Growth_Characteristics.pdf that's a brochure on "Restoring Old Growth Characteristics" by the U. Mass. extension service I'm curious what y'all think of the idea. Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
