Saturday, March 12
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Join City Market Coop and Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, for “Understanding Forest Management,” a walk of an active forest management project at the Hinesburg Town Forest (HTF).
Done well, modern forest management can be restorative and regenerative, helping create more diverse, vibrant, resilient forests with great wildlife habitat, helping forests recover from the effects of human land use and creating old forest attributes sooner than they would naturally occur. At the same time, forest management generates local, renewable resources which get turned into building materials, paper, power and more. Like local food, local wood supports our working landscape and our rural communities and mitigates the use of resources produced under more adverse ecological and social conditions elsewhere in the country or the world. We will walk the management area and talk about forests, forest management, and forest ecology. Please bring an open mind and all those questions you’ve never had a chance to ask about forest management.
To attend this walk, meet at 10:00 AM on 3/12 at the HTF trailhead on Hayden Hill Road East. Hayden Hill Road East is accessed via Texas Hill Road, and the HTF trailhead is 0.3 miles down Hayden Hill Road East, on the left. Please note that your GPS may attempt to send you to the HTF’s trailhead on Hayden Hill Road West, or to route you to the Hayden Hill Road East trailhead from Hayden Hill Road West – this will not get you to the Hayden Hill Road East trailhead. This walk will happen “rain (snow, mud) or shine.” Participants should be ready to spend a couple hours outdoors walking over uneven and potentially slippery surfaces in whatever weather we find ourselves in, and also to spend extended periods of time standing and talking.
To learn more about forest management at the Hinesburg Town Forest, check out the resources here. To learn more about Ethan’s work, read his articles, visit his YouTube channel or sign up for his mailing list, check out his LinkTree, here.
Register here: http://www.citymarket.coop/calendar/2022-03-12/understanding-forest-management-walk
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