The Nature Conservancy’s Green Hills Preserve
North Conway, NH 03860
United States
This tour is tour is geared toward the general public. To see the foresters and professionals tour, please click here.
Join us for a field tour of The Nature Conservancy’s Green Hills Preserve and a discussion of how TNC incorporated principles of climate resilience into recent management. Tony D’Amato (UVM) and consulting forester Tim Nolin (Forest Land Improvement) will lead us on a tour of the management that was implemented over the past two years, part of which was designed as an Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) long-term study site. Two stands, one dominated by American beech and Northern red oak, and another dominated by Eastern hemlock and red spruce, will be visited. Silvicultural treatments and other management actions included patch cuts, crop tree release, thinning/small group selection, slash walls, beech chemical control, and enrichment plantings (tree species planting). This site has been heavily impacted by spongy moth, and there will be an opportunity to see and discuss how this impacted management implementations, and potential future management actions that will be taken at the site.
Please come prepared to be in the woods for the whole afternoon. Carpooling is encouraged, and AWD or 4X4 vehicles are best suited for access to the site. We will have transportation available (vans) for vehicles with low clearance.
This is a short-distance walking tour with many stops. Please expect some trail walking with parts of the tour traveling over recently harvested forest with cut treetops (slash) on the forest floor. If you have concernsabout the tour, please contact Steven Roberge at (603) 862-4861 or steven.roberge@unh.edu.
Agenda
12:45 PM – Meet and depart from:
Lowe’s Home Improvement
Mountain Valley Mall
32 Mountain Valley Blvd
North Conway, NH 03818
1:00 to 4:00 PM – Tour recent harvests and research on the Green Hills Preserve.
- Stop 1. Introductions and Summary of Green Hills Preserve.
- Stop 2. Control sites / Oak-pine-beech and softwood forests.
- Stop 3. Crop tree release in oak-pine-beech.
- Stop 4. Enrichment plantings.
- Stop 5. Patch cuts with retention.
- Stop 6. Patch with slash wall.
- Stop 7. Patch with clustered softwood retention
- Stop 8. Softwood management.
4:00 PM – Back to landing to disperse and carpool back to Lowe’s
Co-sponsored by: The Nature Conservancy and the University of Vermont
