NEWS. QUARTERLY New England Society of American Foresters ~~~~~~~~~~~~-----,ii< ~- VOL. 50 NO. 4 October 1939 ~
NORTHERN LANDS STUDY NESAF Position Statement
The New England Society of American Foresters {NESAF), representing .l,JSO resource professionals in both public and private jobs, encourages land use planning to address the needs of both local and distant populations. The Nor thern Forest Land Area is the home for 700,000 people and contains 32 million acres. This region, crossing New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, is worthy of recognition because of its past management by private owners for multiple resources including wood, wildlife, water and recreation. The best way to continue fulfilling society's needs is by encouraging this successful pattern of private ownership of both large and small tracts. The people of the area must be allowed to use their ingenuity to develop a diverse and ecologic ally sound resource-based economy of wood products, agriculture and tourism, which will better their lives and continue to satisfy the nation's needs.
The NESAF has identified eleven regional resources needing consideration: local community strength, wildlife, scenery, water quality, recreation, wood production, botanical areas, shorelands, large forest tracts, historic sites and wetlands.
Each of these contributes to the character of the area and must be addressed. The best way is through wise and coordinated use which can usually acconunodate multiple uses concurrently. Growing population pressures on all the resources of the land preclude single use designations in all but the most unusual cir cumstances. Any shifts of ownership into public hands must occur only where the total of the benefits outweigh those possible under private ownership. Forest land use should promote the continuity of the ecosystem and optimal bene fits for all people. Coordination of uses in time and area can provide the largest sum of spiritual, social and economic needs.
In order to achieve these goals, the New England Society of American Foresters reconunends the following actions, in order of preference:
FIRST - Develop incentives to encourage the continuation of multiple use on private land. SECOND - Strengthen local and state planning and zoning to conserve forest land and encourage development in suitable places. THIRD - Establish areas of particular significance within which the public could purchase selected property rights. FOURTH - Create a reserve of public monies to be used to acquire properties or property rights on the open market. FIFTH - Public acquisition of full ownership. This should be the last resort.
Ado?ted July 7, 1989 MEMBERS SERVING YOU IN 1989
NEW ENGLAND OFFICERS
Chair - 'nleodore E. Howard, Dept. Forest Resources, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, Nil OJ824 (H)603-868-1152 (0) 862-1020 Vice-Chair - Sidney Balch, RFD 1, Box 3150, Wilton, He 04294 (11)207-645-3023 (0)364-4521 Sec/Treas - Katherine Carter, School of Forest Research, Univ Haine, Orono, He 04469 (0)207-581-2855 Exec. Dir. - Richard Watt, ro Box 954, Montpelier, Vt 05602 (H)(0)802-229-4lll EXECUTIVE COHHlTTEE lmmed, Past Chair - Jane Difley, JlD 1, Jewett Drive, Bennington, Vt 05201 IH)B02-447-3252 (0)518-272-0062 Canada - Robert Dick, Comp 39, Site 3, RRl7, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 4x8 111> 506-450-1483 (01453-4501 Connecticut - Timothy Hawley, 5 Sunnyslope Dr, Middleton, Ct 06457 (11)203-344··1611 (0)624-6671 Haine - John HcHulty, PO Box 23, St. Francis, Me 04774 (11)207-398-J535 (0)834-3961 Massachusetts - Warren Archey, 30 lleynolds s~, Lenox, Ha 01240 (11)413-448-8285 (0)637-2729 New flanq>shire - Joseph w. DiLorenzo, RFD 6, Box 269, Laconia, NII 03246 (H)603-524-8306 (0) 524-2060 Rhode Island - '11lomas Dupree, 7 Elmonte Dr, Coventry, RI 02816 (H)40l-828-3546 10)647-3367 Vermont - James Cronin, 12 Cascade st, Essex Junction, Vt 05452 (H)802-878-5462 (0)879-6565 Forest Tech Coord - Dick Schaertl, 14 Winterhaven Dr, Orono, Me 04473 (0)207-866-3818 Membership - Lawrence Smith, 91 PO'W'Wow River Rd, E. Kingston, NH 03827 (11)603-642-5538 ...... News Quarterly - Gary Salmon, RR l, Box 665, Cuttingsville, Vt 05738 (H)802-492-3315 (0)483-2315 DIVISION OFFICERS Granite State Chair - Karen Bennett, Box 322, Bennington, NH 03422 (H)603-588-6703 (0)225-5505 Vice-Chair - Daniel Early, 424 Altonwood Dr., Concord, llH 03301 (H)603-228-5511 (0)352-8212 Sec/Treas - Dan Cyr, 3 Beebe Lane, Heri~ack, NH 03054 (H)603-886-6541 (0)413-253-7514 News Correa - Jonathan tlute, Chappell Professional Bldg, Rt 13, S. Milford, NH 03055 Ctfl60J-673-2510 (0)603-673-2510 Green Mountain Oiair - Joseph Nelson, PO Box 667, Shelburne, Vt 05482 (H)802-253-4084 (0)985-8009 Vice-Chair - Ross Morgan, Box 32, Craftsbury Common, Vt 05827 (11)802-5136-9697 (0)586-7711 Secretary - Peter Condaxis, Rd l, Box 24, E. Calais, Vt 05650 (H)802-229-5287 (0)864-1793 Treasurer - Edward Leary, one .llker Farm, Craftsbury Co11111on, Vt 05827 (H)802-755-6705 (0) 244-8711 Hews Correa - Yuriy M, Bihun, PO Box 294, Albany, Vt 05820 (H)002-899-2873 (0)755-6744 Haine Chair-::-j)Qnna Cassese, Scott Paper Company, PO Box 646, Binqham, Me 04920 (H)207-643-2725 (0)672-5512 Vice-Chair - Cliff Foster, PO Box 157, Poland Springs Rd, Gray, He 04039 (H)207-657-4756 (0)657-3557 Sec/Treas - Marcia HcKeague, Great Northern Paper, Woodlands Dept, 1024 Central St., Millinocket, He 04462 (H)207-746-5177 (0)723-5131 ext 5686 News Corres - Donna J, Peare, Boise-cascade, Woodlands Dept, Rwnford, He 04276 (H)207-364-8445 (0)364-4521 ext 2377 Yankee Chair-::""Tiiiiothy Hawley, (See Executive Committee) Vice-Chair - David Kittredge, Dept Forestry/Wildlife, Holdsworth Hall, UMass, Jlmherst, Ma 01003 (H)203-974-263l (0)545-2665 Sec/Treas - Chris Modisette, 31 Mary Elizabeth Dr., H. Scituate, RI 02857 (H)401-934-1543 (0)928-1660 News Correa - Hass. - David Robb, RFD 1, Box 218 CU11111in9ton, Ha 01026 (8)413-634-2225 (0) 442-9929 Conn. - Timothy Hawley (See Executive Comrnittee) Chapter Officers - Rhode Island Chair - Paul Dolan, Division of Forest Environment, 2195 Putnam Pike, Chepachet, RI 02814 (0)401-568-2013 Vice-Chair - Tom Armstrong, Division of Forest Environment, 2160 Arcadia Rd., Hope Valley, RI 02832 (0)401-539-2356 Sec/Treas - Rich Blodgett, Providence Water Supply Board, 552 Academy Ave., Providence, RI 02909 (0)401-828-1660 News Corres - Chris Modisette (See Sec/Treas, Yankee Division) Canada News correB - A.R,C. Jones and Sandra Howland Council Delegate Jane Difley, Rd l, Jewett Drive, Bennington, Vt 05201 (H)802-447-3235 (0)518-272-0062
The News Quarterly is the official publication of the New England society of J\merican Foresters. It is published in January, April, July, and October, and is mailed from Rutland, Vermont under a non-profit Ol'9anization bulk mail per!llit. Address all in quiries tos Gary Salmon, Editor, RR l, Box 665, Cuttingsville, Vermont 05738
2 IN MEMORIA~i
RICHARD M. BRETT FRANCOIS MERGEN
Richard Marion Brett, noted nature writer Francois Mergen, 64, Professor Emeritus and and conservationist, of Woodstock and Barnard, former Dean of Yale University's School of Vermont, and of Bloomfield, Connecticut in Forestry and Environmental Studies, died in later life died on September 7, 1989. A Florida on June 26. "Dr. Mergen was a very graduate of WilliaJDS College, he reti.red as distinguished forest geneticist and made same the business manager of the New York Public of the pioneer contributions in the field," Library at the age of 50 and received a Yale forestry professor David M. Smith said. Master's Degree in forestry from Yale in "He was an excellent scientist and also an 1955. During his tiJne in VeJ:1110nt he worked excellent administrator." His two terms as a woodlot at Hawk's Hill in East Barnard Forestry School Dean - from 1965 to 1975~ which is now under the management of the New occurred as Yale shifted its focus toward England Forestry Foundation. He described broad envirorunental issues. He became this work in the book "The Country Journal Professor Emeritus in May of this year. Woodlot irimer." He organized and was trustee of numerous conservation organizations, inclu ding Vennont Natural Resources Council, Ver JtDnt Institute of Natural Sciences, Ve:rmont chapter of the Hature Conservancy, and the Connecticut River Watershed Association. He J. PHILLIP RICH wrote a newspaper colUlllJ\, "Man and Other Beasts•; and and served on numerous state can J. Phillip Rich of Morrisville, Ve%lll0nt, !11.i.ssions. He continued to write on his return former NESAF Chair and recipient of the NESAF to Connecticut recently completinq "Musin9s at Distinguished Forester Award (1983), died on Eighty." July 21, 1989. Phil was a 30 year member of the Society of 1\merican Foresters, an early leader in the wood enerqy field, and active THORN KING/NOYES SHIRLEY consulting forester, and former owner of J.P.R. Associates until his early retirement follow Two other New England Society of American ing a heart attack several years ago. Forester memtlers passed away this summer, Since retirement Phil devoted his time to II. Thorn King, who joined SAF in 1939 and building a Blllall solar home, sailing, serving resided in Hancock, New Hampshire passed away as lay minister to two co11m1unity churches and in July and Noyes Shirley of Bethel, Maine working to become a licensed minister which passed away in August. he achieved this spring.
Poets Corner I'm Only One
PRAYER OF THE WOODS In case you thought your SAF membership didn't count•••• "I aia the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, the friendly shade screening you from I'M OOLY ON~ PXRSON IN THX GROUP the summer sun, and my fruits are refreshing droughts quenching your thirst as you're goinq XvXn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it on." works quitx wxll xxcxpt for onx of thx lcJcys. I havx wishxd many timxs that it workxd pxrfxctly. "I am the beam that holds your house, the board It is trux thxnc arx forty-six lcJcys that function of your table, the bed on which you lie, and wx-1 xnough, but just onx lcJcy not working makxs the timber that builds your boat." thx diffxncncx. Somxtimxs it sxxms to mx that our group is somxwhat U.kx my typxwritxr. "I am the handle of your hoe, the door of your homestead, the wood of your cradle, and the You may say to yoursxlf, "wxll, I am only onx shell of your coffin." pxraon. It won't makx much diffxrxncx." But, you siac, thx group, to bx xffxctivx, nxxdxd thx "I am the bread of kindness and the flower of activx participation of xvxry pxrson. beauty. n So thx nxxt timx you think you arx only onx "Ye who pass by, listen to my prayer: harm me pxrson and that your xffort is not nxxdxd, not." rxmxmbxr my typxwritxr and say to yoursxlf, "I am a kxy pxrson and nxxdxd vxry much," (The Portuguese "Prayer of the Woods" has been used in forest reservations in Portugal (from: The Intermountain Society News, for more than 1, 000 years. ) Xlizabeth Closx, Xditor)
3 Comments Of The Chair Ted Howard
EARTH DAY COMETH over one year's time, three 20th anniver as citizens of Earth, are affected by global saries will have been observed: my high warming, tropical deforestation, and school graduation, the Woodstock Husic Fes hazardous wastes. We are concerned about tival, and Earth Day. There is something to biodiversity, wilderness designations, en be learned from each of these events. dangered species, and maintaining a working This past fall I attended my 20th high . forest. school class reunion. As you might expect, Earth Day 1990 will be a big media event I was the only professional forester in at too. But unlike the Woodstock anniversary tendancer the only one whose day-to-day work where the media was the event, Earth Day was enmeshed in natural resources. Hy for participantS'WI'll hawthe opportunity to mer classmates had no better understanding launch a period of environmental concern more of what forestry was about then they did powerful than that of the l970's. when I left town to attend the University of We foresters are part of that Earth nay Haine. Yet, these people were concerned movement too. The 20th anniversary celebra about the environment, about land use and a tion offers us a golden opportunity to carry host of other issues relevant to our pro our message of resource stewardship to the fession, because those issues touch their citizens of our towns and cities, to the lives directly. halls of the legislatures, and to other en This swnmer marked the 20th anniversary of vironmental organizations. we need to be the Woodstock festival held in neighboring part of the network,that is to take the lead New York. It was pretty clear that the an ership role in these important resource issues niversary "celebration" was strictly a media in the l990's. event. Those that had attended the original So, what are you going to do? Take part in event are mostly in their forties now, and classroom celebrations? Appear at festivals? Be have more pressing business. Nostalgia can part of a panel discussion? Write articles for hold center stage for only a few moments. the local paper? Use our policy statements on The celebration of the 20th anniversary the Working Forest and the Northern Lands study of Earth Day is scheduled for April, 1990. in contacts with environmental groups and the This promises to be a much more powerful media? You need to decide how the profession event than rememberances of Woodstock, can be a key player in Earth Day 1990, and the because its focus is not a single historical decade that follows. event, but rather on the recognition that You and I need to get busy. I want my environmental problems affect us all. we, classmates to know that a forester manages and cares for precious natural resources when I show up to my 25th reunion.
Festival A Success New Members
We since.rely welcczne tha following new members to the New England Society of .!lmerican Foresters via original membership (NJ, reinstatement (R), or transfer (T). Yankee Division: Hary IC. :Rourke of Madison, Connecticut (T), Andy Cutko of Woburn, Massachu setts (N), William E. Holbrock of Cheshire, Con necticut (N), Susan Robinson of Franklin, Mas sachusetts (N), and Matthew Shields of Newburg port, Massachusetts (R). Granite State Division: Robert Cavallaro of Laconia, New Hampshire (N). Green Mountain Division: Jeffrey A. Soshnick of West Danville (N) , Jonathan H. Downer of Richmond (R), and Edward B. Jalbert of Cabot (R). Also Christopher R. Hasson who has joined the University of Vermont student chapter. Haine Division: Daniel w. Gilmore of Old Town (Interested spectators observe a fuelwood pro (T), Bruce Watt of Orono (N), Craig w. Wayman of cessor in action at the Gunstock Festival held Prospect Harbor (N), and Peter F. Tracy of Far in June in Gilford, New Hampshire. This was mington (R). Also Carmelle J. Cote who has joined tlew Enqland' s largest display of 5lllall forestry the University of Haine student chapter. equipment and drew a crowd of 2,000 people,) Canada: Jean Stein of Quebec (R).
4 Executive Director's RepQrt Richard watt ------IMPRESSIONS OF FINLAND
In the 60's I had the opportunity to escort Birch is preferred on many sites throughout Dr. Olavi Huikari of the Finnish Forest Finland because of its combination of high Research Institute throuqhout Minnesota to view value and high volume production. Planting my research on black spruce silvics in the ex problems with birch appe11r to be solved. In tensive glacial Lake Agassiz boqs. Dr. Huikari recent years Scotch Pine has become a popular was involved in drainCM)e and fertilization re planting stock resulting in beautiful stands search in boqs in his country, so we had many of clear, tall Scotch Pine. When I 11111ntioned fruitful discussions. By chance, we met at the our crooked stands, several foresters proposed National SAF Convention in .Rochester last fall an imbalance of boron and nitrogen as the cause and he invited me to come to Finland for a com rather than accepting my statement of poor bined forestry and general sightseeing tour. genetic quality of the seed as the answer. Hy wife and I left in late Hay and returned in Norway Spruce is also important with all three mid-June enjoying three weeks of unusually clear common species used for fiber, sawloqs, and pleasant weather with even the notorious mos veneer. Utilization is close, and S111all quitoes of Lapland relatively rare. material that cannot be profitably utilized is Finland's economy is a canbination of bene often gathered and placed in neat piles near volent socialism and aggressive capitalism roads for use of local residents. resulting in a prosperous economy and a healthy, Our drive back to Vermont from JFJt took us fully employed, well-educated population. through forest stands in the New York-Vermont Some of the state-owned monopolies include area that had been devastated by ice storms petroleUD1, fertilizer, electric power, cC1111111uni about two years 490, Little clean-up has been cations, and public transportation. Health done, presenting a view of forest management care and education at all levels are provided that contrasted unfavorably with Finland'• by the 9overrunent. But this comes at a price; manicured forests. We have a tremendous task a tax rate of about 60 percent. ahead of us to move our forests from an abused State control of education produces restric and unmanaged condition to one that provides tions that we would find intolerable. For ex an abundance of the many products of the ample, only a handful of openings for new stu "Working Forest." dents are provided in architectural training, competition is keen, and many are disappointed. However, the system insures that those selected are highly qualified. By the same token, about 150 places are available for incoming forestry students. In past years, many more than this applied, so tho~e selected were excellent mat material. In more recent years, the number of candidates about equaled the number of places, so that the quality of students is considered MULTICRUISE© to have declined. Multi-Product, Multi-Level Timber Inventory Hany of the environmental problems our pub Software for IBM PC's and Compatibles lic perceives also are found in Finland. For example, t was at a forestry field day at which the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and MULTICRUISE lets you: Forestry repeated the 9overnments arguments • Perform timber cruises with up to 6 product for a fifth nuclear power plant, a position designations. meeting popular opposition. Clear cutting, followed by planting in 60 percent of the • Perform up to 5 sub-samples or levels such as cases is opposed upon aesthetic grounds, al cut I leave or acceptable f unacceptable. though the neat appearance of clearcuts (small • Tally marked timber and prepare volume by our standards) would be applauded in this country, The demand it seems is for more summaries. natural stands, for unevenaged mana9ement, and • Use point, fixed plot or 100% sample methods. for parks and wilderness. Perhaps this arises from the 9reat movement of people from the MULTICRUISE is used by a growing number of farms and forests into the cities and the con progressive forest managers, including: sequent lack of understanding of silvicultural operations ( sound fa111iliar). Intensive manage New England Power Company ment does produce a feeling of sameness to the NH Division of Forest & Lands landscape which the presence of only three Continuous Forest Management, Inc. important species, Scotch Pine, Norway Spruce, Forest Resource Consultants and two similar birches, does not alleviate. The many bogs are universally drained and placed into agriculture or forestry. Thus, FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT: peat soils, which in our country remain in a wild state, join the great nwnber of inten Computer Forest Consultants, Inc. sively managed upland forest and far111 lands. P.O. Box 861, Lebanon, NH 03766 Even in remote Lapland, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, drainage remained the rule Tom Hahn Ehrhard Frost with the exception of large areas of national (603) 786-9544 (603) 448-1866 parks, which attract hikers from southern Fin land and western Europe in large numbers.
5 Is There A Difference? by Mervin Stevens
I a.111 always anused by the si.Jfti.larities in The parallel to New Haitt>shire and Maine is management problel!IS between "back home" and what happens with influence of and on community here in the "developing" country world. forces away from the area affected. Here in Amused beca~se there are those visionaries Thailand the reaction was to import wood from both sides of the world that make sharp (basically teak) from the surrounding countries distinctions between the kinds of technology of Burma, Laos, and JCampuchice. Logging has or management useful for forestry occuring or not stopped in Thailand, the difference between adaptable in the USA (or any developed country) illegal and legal may be lllC>Ot. r have only and the "third world." I point out the United seen one article pointing out that the issue States because we are la~er and our writings of deforestation of tropical rain forest has are distributed with greater volume. However now shifted from one coWltry (Thailand) to issues surrounding the Horthern Lands Study three others in order to satisfy the demand and the Maine Wilderness Society proposals are of the wood industry. Laos nas recently said silllilar to issues surrounding our present ban "no" to further exporting and gone on record on logging here in '11lailand. as saying that they are going to manage their A spin-off from the wake of a recent major forest resource for the future. tropical storm was the banning of loqging from On the home front we •ee what happens when all timber concessions throughout the country. developers from the outside 11\0ve in, The move The justification for this action was that or promotion toward change comes under the heading "illegal" cutting contributed to the deaths of of expanding population. As Dick Natt •aid in over 300 people when the illegally cut loqs his Executive Director's Report (l\pril 89 ~ were swept downstream by the flood waters to Quarterly) the creeping nature of northward where people live. Studies are still going on migration of New Englanders from the •eaboard as to cause-effect but the emphasis on illegal logging as a cause has not proven true. It to the north COWltry was accepted as inevitable in a land of expanding population but deeined appears to be a si~le relationship revolving around converting forest to rubber and food "relatively insignificant" in the far north crop production on landscapes having soils and itself. We now know the effect of the•• changes geology not suited to these uses. Of course are not insiginificant. They 111ay appear to be subtle on a local scale, but on a world wide a one in 500 to a 1,000 year storm contributed basis the effect is to contribute to the dis a whole lot also. appearance of 11,000,000 hectares of forests The effect though was the banning of logging per year. While we may pick apart Jay Craven's much to the glee of the conservation organiza "The Right Stuff," his message is right on. tions. The latest word to be sounded in the paper was from Green Deserts, Ltd, England congratulating the ban. I'm reminded of "The Mervin Stevens, NESAF l!ll!lnbe..r and the News Right Stuff" article by Jay Cravens, our S/IF Quarterly foreign correspondent is on thestaff President (Jan 1989 Journal of Forestry) when of the Regional Community Forestry Training he expressed concern for "those who do not Center attached to the JCasetsart University in want any consumptive use of the forest, par Bangkok, Thai.land. Merv is the Technical Advi ticularly any use that interferes with their sor to the three sponsoring orqanizations of concept of conservation. And the national the Training Center, the Asian Development Bank, media are supportinq them regardless of the Government of Switzerland, and the University facts." That is certainly the "right stuff" mentioned above. He can be reached at the for here. Regional Community Forestry Tra~ing Centar, c/o Faculty of Forestry, !Casetsart University, Bangkok., .10900, 'l'ha.iland.
:t- Forestry Fire Officer Named
David Crary, NESAF Forest Fire Bl. i Supply Working Group leader, has been hired a to serve as the Fire Management Offi cer at Cape Cod National Seashore. Meboa Tree MarlllAC Pe.lat • Loweat Pricea Anywhere. Dave is a 1981 (BS) and 1988 (HS) 14 Colon of Vlayl F1a&alAll It KILi.ER TREE fLAGGl"G. graduate of the University of Massachu Guual Foreatry Suppllca. setts. For the past two years he has been conducting fire economic analyses C.I Or Wrlla Fw 0.. 9"<•-· for the atates of Rhode Island, Connect (207) HS.1204 icutt, and New Jersey. He is the firgt P.O,BoxH5 FMO hired by the National Park Service Huriaoa, Malilc b4040 in the Northeast. The appointment comes out of a new initiative to up W•Alf•run. Location: JoneGr•r Front Stnot grade the fire management activities Bill Win.low H.rrlHll Vllla10 after last year's devestating we.stern fires,
6 SAF Adopts Old-Growth Two Foresters' Worlds Position Zhu Xiping, a 27 year old volunteer trom The Society of American Foresters has calle4 China and a -mber of a delegation of Chinese for the use of an ecological definition in students and visiting scientists studying for determining what constitutes an ol1!-9rovth forest, estry at the University of Haine since 1988, and believes that iilproved inventories of these worked for the Haine Bureau of Public Lands foreets are eseential to their allocation and this S\lll'lller, He observed the Bureau's lllaJlagement planning process, assisted staff management. An ecological definition would take into and regional specialists in field ~anagement account the age, number of trees per acre, n~ activities, and laid the groundwork for th~ ber of dead and downed trees per acre, and other development of an integrated eo111puter data base management system, Leiqh. Hoar, the considerations in determining what constitutes an old-growth forest, according to a recent SAF Bureau's Director of Land Management, worked closely with Zhu during h.ie nine week stay. statement. From there, agreement could be reached on the amount of old-growth forest that "I was struck by the similarities between Zhu's exists in a given area, such as in the Pacific forest management work in China and our own Northwest, Once an inventory of the amount of here in Haine. All we talked, I realized that despite th.e huge political gulf separating old-growth forests is in place, decisions about our countries, we were just two foresters its use can be made. talking about biological entities and how •While timber production frOlll old-growth forests provides important benefits, sOllle they respond to treatlllents~ comnented Hoar, land ehould be maintained in an old-growth China's forests, Zhu says, range fro~ tropical to northern coniferous. Becauee state for wildlife habitat, aesthetic enjoy Haine is on the same latitude as northeastern ment, scientific study, and primitive recrea China, Zhu says Maine's spruce-fir forests tion," said William H. Banzhaf, SAF executive look a lot like the coniferous forests of vice-president. In determining th• allocation of old-growth forest. among these uses, "the China, On avera~e, only 12 percent of China is covered by forests, althouth forest cover Society believes the objectives of forest own varies from three percent in the south coas ers should be the basis for resource 111anage..ent tal area where Zhu was raieed to more than decisions." In the case of federal lands, fifty percent in the north. The Chinese these forest owners are the public. SAF does government places high priority on refores not favor one land allocation over another, but tation efforts Zhu saye. The agency he works does believe that foresters and other profession for - the Academy of Forest Inventory and al resource managers should be actively involve~ Planning - is responsible for conducting in the process by objectively identifying the national forest inventories, similar to forest social, econanic, and ecological costs and bene surveys conducted every ten years in the United fits of allocation alternatives, As such, SAF States by the US Forest Service. has expressed its willingness in facilitating According to Zhu, the general scarcity of agreement among those interested in the timber in China means spruce-fir seldom is used old-growth issue. to make paper there as it is in Maine. He says fast growing species such as poplar and bmnboo are used for paper .WCing. China has nearly 300 epecies of bamboo. Camping, hunting, and fishing in Chineee Gypsy Moth Decline? forests is rare according to Zhu, who says that recreational use of foreet land by the Scientists, puzzled that there were so few Chinese people is lilllited primarily to the gypsy moths in a year when their four-year life enjoyment of its scenic qualities. He says cycle dictated that they should be most plenti that forest hunting is allowed in some areas ful, have identified a fungus that apparently as a feature of tourism for those who can has kept the moth population in check across affort to pay for the privilidge. much of the Northeast this sllll'l!ler. The fungus, Zhu took a series of teete to gain admit Entomophaga maiJnaiga, was introduced from Japan tance to Nanjing Forest University, where he in 1909 as a test against a rapidly increasing graduated with a BS degree in Forest Manage gypsy moth population. From trials in Boston ment in 1983, He eays that it is very diffi during 1910 and 1911 the fungus has apparently cult to gain entrance to a Chinese univereity spread throughout the Northeast and may be a because of the keen competition for limited solution to a problem that has plagued New opening&. He says that Americans are fortu England for 80 years and has expanded in recent nate to have relatively easy access to higher years into the Hid-west and Appalachian states. education. Jlesearchers fran the Agriculture Deparbnent Research Service in Ithaca, New York observed a fungus in dead caterpillars but did not ident ify it until this year. 'l'he fungus secretes enzymes that penetrate the gypsy moth caterpil DON'T FORGET lar' a skin, multiplies inside the cate.rpillar, eats its internal organs, and kills it. Dr. TO VOTE Richard HUlllber, a microbiologist at the Agri culture Department's Plant Protection Research Unit observed that "the unusually cool and wet spring weather was perfect for the fungue." "No definite plans have been made to harness the fun9us to control gypsy moths, Dr. Humber Society of American Foresters said, but it may not be necessary. 'Insect diseases like thie are usually quite effective if just left alone~ he said," 7 (fran: Why the Gypsy Hoth Had such a Bad Year, Science Watch, New York Times, 9/19/89) leafy Pro;ect Soils Conference Held Global Rel.eaf is a national infoniation and The Northeastern Forest soils Conference educational campai9n of the 1\merican Forestry (NEFSC), a group of scientists and practitioners Association that emphasizes the vital role of that have met each year since 1939 to discuss trees and forests in the global environment. application of soils information to forest One of Global Rel.eaf"s catch phrases -- "it's ~anagement, celebrated their fiftieth anniver as simple as planting a tree" ~ refers not sary with a three day meeting in Burlington, to the solution of global environmental prob Vermont on July 31 - August 2. lems, but to individual involve.111ent with the 'lbe meeting, co-hosted by Harry Ya1omey of environment. the u.s. Forest Service and Dave Van Houten of SAF members can play a role in Global Re the Soil Conservation Service, began with a Le af through their chapters. Many of you trip to the Green Mountain National Forest to already know the value to the profession and observe a s~udy evaluating the effecte of tree your canmunity of involvement in Arbor Day leng th and whole-tree harvesting on a northern projects, for example. 'J'he educational im hardwood ecosystem. Three treatments each pact of your participation in local projects replicated three times were applied to tthe site on the media and the public can multiply the in 1982. Biomass and nutrient removals due to benefits of any national campaign a thousand harvesting were measured1 soil physical and fold. chemical properties, soil erosion, lllicrobial Local Global Rel.eaf projects can take many and arthropod populations, and secondary suc forms: tree surveys, plantings or tree care cession of vegetation have been monitored demonstrations, forest improvement projects, periodically. Harry Ya1omey, Russell Briggs, speaking at civic groups, or serving as tech John Shane and Dale Be~dahl each sU11111arized nical experts to the local media, Huch of results of their research. Seven year• after this is already happening, but Global ReI.eaf treatment, there were no major differences in can provide you with a "peg" for planning and most of the variables measured between whole publicity purposes (just remember to promote tree and tree-length harvested plots, your SAF identity, too). Global ReI.eaf has 'lbe qroup continued on to Camels Hump where a system of state coordinators, ~ostly repre Rich Bartlett led a discussion of chemistry of sentatives of state forestry agencies or high elevation soils. 'J'he contribution of the Cooperative Extension offices. 'lbese indi conifer swift moth to decline of spruce and viduals help coordinate activities in their fir on Camels Hump was discussed by John Gray states. (WM Entanology Department) who provided larvae If you or your chapter is interested in and moth specimens for examination. 'lbe larvae participating, contact Paula Tarnapol at the which feed on roots of spruce and fir, killed national office or Deborah Gangloff at l\FA greenhouse grown seedlings. (PO Box 2000, Washington, DC 200131 202- 'J'he meeting concluded the following day with 667-3300). Deborah can refer you to other a visit to Sugarbush ski resort in Waitsfield interested people in your area to create a to observe approaches to sewage 'disposal in local Global Releaf "network for action." mountain soils, Rob Apple and Barry Sinlpson of Suqarbush provided an overview of planned devel opment at the ski area and associated environmen tal impacts. Elizabeth Walker of Sugarbush pro vided an overview of the new sewage treatment plant which includes a ten million gallon hol leafy Material ding tank currently under construction to facilitate an orderly discharge of effluent after A single forest tree absorbs 26 pounds of tertiary treatment. carbon dioxide per year1 an acre of trees can remove 2.4 to S tons of carbon dioxide. There are 728 ~illion forested acres in the United States: they can remove 1110re than 1. 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, 'l'he burning of fossil fuels releases 5.6 billion tons of car bon dioxide annually. Planting 100 million trees around hG11es and businesses in the United States would keep them cooler in swmier. 'lhat would save $4 billion in ene~y costs and reduce carbon dioxide emissions Authors by 18 million tons per year, calculates the .Amer Noted ican Forestry Association. The NESAF position statement defining our Just three trees around a house can cut air recommendations for achieving the goals set condi tioning needs 10 to 50 percent. out by the Northern Lands Study was developed Each year 2.3 billion eeedlings are planted by Dave Field for Maine, Henry Whittlll!lore for in the United States, covering 3.4 million acres. New Hampshire, JiJll Wilkinson for Venaont, and Even with that effort, the annual net loss of Si Balch, NESAF Vice-Ola.ir, and then finalized forest in the United States is about 900 1 000 by input froa the NESAF Executive Committee. acres. 'lbe Yankee Division chose not to be represented In America's urban forests, about four trees but did have a chance to co111111ent through the die or are cut down for every one planted. Executive CollDi.ttee review process. In St. Louis, 440,000 oaks, maples and lindens remove 340 tons of dust and smoke each year - 1 percent.of the city's particulate pollution, In tropical forests, 27 snillion acres are cleared for farms and other uses every year - a loss of 500,000 trees every hour of every day.
(frail: Newsweek, 2 October 1989 who I'm sure 8 obtained it from the llmerican Forest Council) UNIVERSITY NEWS
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CORRECTION, CORRECTION, CORRECTION - Regar dinq Tom Corcoran's NESAF Working Group Leaders list which appeared in the July News Quarterly, the following changes should be made. 'Dle El. DUES ... Economics, Policy & Law 229 leader is Paul~ Sendak, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, the rent you pay for 705 Spear Street, Box 968, Burlington, Vermont space you occupy 05402. The leader for the C2, Soils 88 working group is Russell Bri99s, Cooperative Forestry in your profession. Research Unit, Nutting Rall, University of Haine, Orono, Haine 04469. A third error included Maurice "Ti.Jn" Demeritt as the leader for group Dl, Tree Genetics & Improvement 78 when in fact 9 he is in Berea, Kentucky. • Forestry Calendar • NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK REGION Foresters' COl!llllunications Workshop RCOHHIJNICATING WITH YOUR COMMUllITY" NESAF 1990 WINTER MEETING November 9, 1989 Holiday Inn "FORESTERS HERE TODAY - EVERYWHERE TOMORROW" Holoyke, Massachusetts HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE OF FORESTRY? or November 16, 1989 HOW WILL YOU PARTICIPATE
Holiday Inn ~ White River Junction, Vel:Jllont For a view of forestry's future, join SPONSORED BY: us at the Center of New Hampshire (Holiday USDA-Forest Service Inn) in Manchester, New Hampshire for the NA-State and Private ForestrY New England Regional SAF Winter Meeting on IN COOPERATION WITH: March 7, 8, & 9, 1990. This is the pro- American Forest Council fessional seminar for you. ~ Cooperative Extension Service (CT, HA, HE, NH, RI, VT) New England Sl\F (Granite State and Yank.eel Northeastern Forest Alliance Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests Yankee Forest Cooperative Project NATURAL REGENERATION MANAGEMENT Contact: Forest Management & Utilization USDA Forest Service, NA-S&PF Intensive management of natural regeneration is P. O. Box 640 occupying a more significant portion of silvi Durham, NH 03824 culture programs in the northeast than in pre Telephone: (603)868-5933 vious years. In order to improve the effective ness of these programs and bring focus to future research, the New Brunswick Forest Research Ad visory Committee, Reforestation Technical Com Order Your mittee has scheduled a conference on Natural Subscription Regeneration Management, in Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada on February 20, 21, 1990. The audience will be composed of both research ers and land managers. Contact: Dr. Ted Needham Department of Forest Engineering University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada E3B 5A3 Telephone: (506) 453-4506 Fax: (506) 453-4599
Growth Management Forum Saturday, November 4, 1989 ·Sunday, November 5, 1989 Sponsored by the New England Environmental Network (NEEN) Lincoln Filene Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
10 DIVISION NEWS . ~-----Connecticut___.b....,v ...... T~im--~tfa .....w..,.l~e~v------
Year of the forest - The Connecticut Forest ' To;nadoe1 Kill Camper. Destroy Cathedral Pin11 Park Aaaociation baa declared 1990 to be the One of the tornadoes that ripped through Year of th• Forest for Connecticut. A Connecticut on July 10 blev dovn treea in Black governor's procl.. ation and legialative Rock State Park, fatally crushing a child in reaolution vill be sought. The purposes of the the campground there. Other twisters destroyed project are to increaae avareneaa of the nearly all of the f1111ous Cathedral Pines and importance of forests and encourage local major areaa of fore1t near Kohavk State Forest initiatives to participate in Arbor Day in Cornwall. Extensive damage to homes activities and manage forest resourcea. There occurred in Bantam, Vaterbury, and Hamden • .- vill be a the•e for each month. For example, The 42-acre, 200-year old Cathedral Pines January's the•e vill be "Health of the Forest.• are registered as a national natural landmark. For more information and to volunteer, call Until recently, the Appalachian Trail passed Linda Rapp or John Hibbard at CFPA, 346-2372. through it and the present trail, the Kohavk, is closed indefinitely. The Nature Conservancy, which ovns the land and is CONNECTICUT YEAR OF THE FOREST dedicated to pre1erving natural ar1a1, is meeting vith neighbors vho believe the mas1ive dovned vhite pine and hemlock art an extreme l'IONTH TH£P1E fire hazard. Photo• of the pin•• appeared in ~1989 'Fiie""F'orest & Its ~any the September issue of coonecticyt Voodlands. Benefits 25th A»niversary - The James L. Goodvin Jan. 1990 Health of the Forest Conservation Center in Hampton celebrated its 25th anniversary in September. Huber Hurlock and other DEP foresters assisted vith Feb. 1990 The Forest Classroom presentations. Goodvin donated the 1700-acre property to the state in 1964. The land va1 one of Connecticut's first tree farms. Illar. 1990 fllapla Sugaring Library Dedication - The Camp-Ellsvorth Library of the Conn. Forest ' Park Association on lt. Apr. 1990 Arbor Day the & 66 in Middlefield vas fo~ally dedicated on Urban Forest Sept. 13. Hazel Tuttle devoted considerable time to organizing the library's collection. In addition to historical and natural resource holding1, the library has videotape loan and copy service. Library hours are 9 am to 4 pm Play 1990 The Forest as a Monday through Friday. Protector of Soil & lllater Earth Day. 1990 - The 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day vill be celebrated in 1990 vith June 1990 Your Public Forests numerous events, from press releases to hike• and educational programs. Sylvia V. S. Abbate vas naaed Executive Director and both a July 1990 Forest Recreation steering committee and honorary board, headed by Dan Lufkin and Joanne Voodvard, vere formed . For additional information, contact Abbate at Aug ••1990 The Private Forest CT Earth Day, 90 Sargent Drive, Nev Haven, CT Landowner 06511, 865-ERTH.
Sept. 1990 ~ood Products from the Forest ~ - The foreatry subc011111ittee of the RC & D vill address softvood grading in an effort to improve the marketability of hemlock. Oct. 1990 Flaming Forest Foliage The background of grading and building codes and the economic advantage to lumber producer• of grading vill be studied. Por further Nov. 1990 The Forest as a Home infor•ation, contact Steve Broderick or Irv for Wlldll fe Hart. Forestry subcommittee chair Steve Broderick Dec. 1990 The Christmas Tree mailed a questionnaire to all subcommittee members to identify natural resource issues of importance. The responses vill be summarized Estate Plannin1 - The Cooperative Extension and a f ollov-up survey done to establish Service vill conduct three workshops for priorities. individuals, landowners, and family bu1ines1 owners. Steve Broderick and Russell Brenneman are among the speakers. Broderick notes that a large number of Connecticut's forest landovners are senior citizens. Jl .... more NEWS Coverts Pro1ect - Steve Broderick expects 28 Prof. Dave Schroeder vaa named to head the landovner1 and concerned citizens to attend the reorganized University of Conn. Dept. of fifth Covert• vork1hop in September at Childs' Renevable Natural Resources. The Renevable Great HoWltain Forest Tree Farm. This vill Resources and Agricultural Engineering increase the total number of cooperators in the departments vere recently merged. Coverts project in Conn. to more than 100. The vorkshop is 1pon1ored by the Cooperative Extension Service and the Ruffed Crouse Society, vith as1istance from the DEP Bureaus of Forestry and Vildlife. Tree Parm - The 1989 Outstanding Tree Parmer for Connecticut is Jack Camp of Hiddletovn. A tour vill be held on October 21, from 9 am to noon.
Nevsmakere - Peter Connorton accepted the position of Forester for the Manchester, Conn. Vater Dept. He is a graduate of Yale Forestry and had vorked for Connvood, Inc. Joe Shramek vas promoted to manager of Connvood, Inc. DEP forester Kevin Crady vas promoted to Chief Fire Control Officer, taking the position once occupied by state forester Peter Babcock and Charlie Snyder. Tom O'Brien and Kevin Crady vere chosen to assist interagency fire control, serving as safety officer and Nev England crev representative, respectively.
.. MAINEDi:vtSl()tl by Donna Peare
Maine Forestry Practices Act Passed - The legis Lake Concept Plan Proposed - Boise Cascade's lature has passed a bill called "An Act to Im Coated Paper Division, with offices in Rumford, pleinent Sound Forest Practices," a compromise has been selected by the Maine Land Use Regula law worked out by the Maine Audubon Society, tion Coll'lllission to develop a Model Lake Concept Maine Forest Products Council, Small Woodland Plan for 22 lakes on land the company owns in
GREEN MOUNTAIN Division by Gary Salmon
over 1 1 000 people attended the. Ve.nnont Con One htmdred and thirty friends and relatives servation Celebration on the State House lawn met at the Abbey Restaurant in St. Albans on on September 16. The Vermont Natural Resource September 15 to honor Samuel T. Hudson, jr., Council sponsored "day" promoted environmental with a retirement party. Sam worked for the awareness and attracted 60 other environmental, Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation as educational and outdoor groups into participat Franklin/Lamoille Cotmty Forester for most of ing. The Green Mountain Division was involved his career, However the last few were spent as in the pr09ram with a slide show and panel dis Leader of the Spruce Budworm Project, Bis total cussion on "What is a Forester?" High.tight of career as a forester with the Department spanned the celebration was an address by Governor 32 years. Sam was also instrunental in building Madeleine Kunin, Noting that the human race is the st. Albans Maple Festival into a national "poised on the brink between environmental and then an international event. 58111 has been doc:msday and ecological redeq1tion," she an SAF l!lelllher since 1957 and held all of the pled9ed an ambitious 10-year, $350 million con Green Mountain Division offices. However, thanks servation and environmental protection plan. to Ross Morgan, Sam Hudson is the only Society She listed several environmental concerns in of J\Rlerican Forester ll\Ulber to receive a pewter cluding water quality, energy conservation, SAF ear ring. preservation of open space, and solid waste dis posal and proposed two ~ajor spending initia tives as solutions. A $300 million effort cal led the Vermont Third Century Fund to help local and regional environmental projects and an addi FORESTERS I tional $50 million for the Vermont Housing and Are you doing all you possibly can do to lessen Conservation Trust Fund. The Greenhouse Effect ?
J.3 GRANITE STATE Division by Jonathan Nute
Forest Festival A Success - The day started Wetlands Board with a locus map and detail overcast with a light drizzle, but by after map showing road layout and the location of noon the SWl was shining drawing an estimated wetlands and water crossing structures. Har 2.000 people to the GWlstock Forest Festival vesting can begin as soon as the accompanying held on JWle 10 at Gunstock Recreation Area intent-to-cut has been approved by the approp in Gilford, New Hampshire. "This is the third riate municipal official. Forestry operations year that we (UNH Cooperative Extension) have are no longer delayed by the permit review run this event, and it seems that each year it process. doubles in size and attendance," s .'li.d Bob Ed The fact sheet can be obtained by calling monds, Program leader in Natural .Resources. (603)-224-9699, or writing NHTOA at 54 Ports "This was an opportunity for forest landowners mouth Street, Concord, NH 03301. Wetlands to see the latest developments in forestr.y Notification Forms are available at your local equipment and meet with a wide variety of for town office or by contacting the NH Wetlands est resource professionals and tree care ex Board at 271-2147, or as well, calling NHTOA. perts." "We had 20 non-profit exhibitors in the lodge, and 40 commercial exhibitors outside," Loggers Workshops on Forest Practices - Pro said Swnner Dole, Exhibits Coordinator. "There fessional loggers f iom throughout New HaJnpshire was a good variety of equipment on display for have planned an October workship series designed almost all aspects of forestry and orchard to improve forest resource management through work, and there was a high degree of interest good harvesting practices, handle aesthetic con by the people in the ongoing demonstrations by cerns, and build better relations with the pub the dealers." lic. "We expect to have 150 of the state's 500 Stan Knowles and Marshall Patmos helped professional loggers involved in this important organize six educational seminars on topics new continuing education program," said Jeff ranging from chain saw safety to orchard Eames, 1989 NH Logger of the Year. The program sprayers to arborists information or urban is being coordinated by the NHTOA, UNH Coopera tree care . A 30' timber bridqe was also on tive Extension, and the New Hampshire Division display through the efforts of Rick DeHark, of Forest & Lands, with support from New Hamp North Country Coordinator. shire's forest industry. Workshop organizers "This was New England's largest display expect the program will help to avoid incre..-ed of small forestry equipment this year," said regulation of forestry and logging by ~roving Jonathan Nute, "and it took the cooperation forest practices. and efforts of a broad range of utllf Coopera 'l\lo different workshops will be held in three tive Extension staff to make it a success." locations -- Bethlehem, Tamworth and Hillsboro during the first and third weeks of October, Workshop faculty include professional loggers and forest resource managers frOlll the us Forest Service and the University of New Hampshire. Specialists in soils, water quality, wildlife and public relations will also participate in the program,
NEWSHAKERS - Phil Bryce has been hired by James River Corporation as the Superintpndlll'lt of For estry Services, He works in the Woodlands Divi sion office in Berlin. Phil had previously wor ked for eight and a half years for Temple-Eastex as their wood procurement manager in Claremont. He is a past chair of the SAF Granite State Divi sion and was honored earlier this year with the Division SAF Forester of the Year Award.
Joe Szymujko retired on July 14 after 32 years (Over 40 convrercial equipment firms displayed of service with the University of New Hampshire their items at the Gunstock Festival in Gilford) Cooperative Extension. Working as the Sullivan County forester he helped organize the county chapter of the NHTOA as well as the annual Woods Wetlands J\nswers Available - In response to men's Field Day event at the Cornish Fair. Be nwnerous inquiries and much confusion, the has worked for the protection of the Sullivan New HaJ!ilshire Timberland owners Association CoWlty owned timberland in Unity and developed has prepared a fact sheet that answers the a self-guided educational trail system through most asked questions regarding the new ltet out the property. Joe has been recognized by lands Notificati on process. As a result of the Horth lltnerican Maple Syrup Council for his l egislation that went into affect in late years of dedicated service to the New Hampshire July, the new process exempts minimwn impact maple syrup industry, most recently evidenced forest management activities from the formal by his involvement with a pilot project to con wetlands pennit process. Instead, the land trol pear thrips. owner or his agent must complete the one-page Wetlands Notification and submit it to the
I Oc.Z. 8"9' J.4 ------___ Canada by Sandra Howland
Fall Camp - Thirty students entering their Faculty Briefs - Dr. S.E. Clements attended the fourth year and six professors participated Faculty Development Summer Institute at the Uni in the faculty's 17th fall camp, a nine day versity of Prince Edward Island in August. The field excursion which gives students the theme of this years institute was 'enhancing the opportunity to apply what they have learned teaching experience,' which focused discussion in a forest setting. "The overall aim is to on characteristics and problems of today's stu provide students, working together in small dents, teaching and learning styles, and study groups of four or five, with a variety of skill development. problem solving experiences in natural re Dr. R.A. Douglas spent the summer in Edinburgh, source dynamics," said Professor Arthur Van Scotland assessing road design procedures of the
Slyke 1 acting chair of the Department of U.K. Forestry Commission and in Kuala Llllllpur Forest Jlesources. "The sample problems are evaluatinq the progress made in the past year on chosen to emphasize the continuous change an International Development Research Council of forest conditions and to reinforce the project dealing with bamboo reinforcement of discovery approach to learning." The camp unstable slopes. ,... was held at Consolidated Bathurst Limited's Dr. A. Dickson, Coordinator of Continuing company logging camp and facilities at Education in Forestry, chaired the Canadian Rogers Lake. In addition, Consolidated Forestry Association's International Woodlot Bathurst also provided maps and management P.xtension s~~cialists' Seminar last month in information for the area. Fredericton while Dr. A. Boer moderated a panel discussion, "Fixing Deer Population and Fall Convocation Prize List - The following Harvest Objectives," at the Northeast Deer students were selected by the faculty of for Technical Committee meetinq in Montreal and estry' s undergraduate scholarship committee to Prof. C.A. Short gave a presentation at the receive scholarships, bursaries, prizes and ffoodchip Combustion Workshop in Charlottetown awards; Viscount R.B. Bennett Scholarship, on a new non-consolidating biomass feeder he Tracey Jones (year 3), Claude Lebel (year 4)1 developed. Prof. D.A. Daugharty also conducted CIF (Nova Scotia Section) BursarY, Dean Mac a workshop on Stream Crossings and Buffer Strips Donald, Simon Chippin Scholarship, Michelle for Valley Forest Products Ltd. employees in llcLaughlin1 Sherif H. Faluny Forest Soils Prize, September. Boyd Pittman1 B.ff. Flieger Memorial Prize, Drs. I. Smith and Y.H. Chui presented papers Jonas Busauskasi J. Miles Gibson Forestry at the seventh International Symposium on Non Award, Douglas ffarren1 Graduates' Award in destructive Testing of Wood in Madison, Wiscon Forestry, Valery Gueguin7 N.L. Kissick Memorial sin in late September. Titles were "A Direct Prize, Michael Watson; H.D. Long Melnorial Derivation of Machine Settings in Machine Con Scholarship, Randy Poole7 Nova Scotia Forestry trolled Stress Grading of Softwood Lumber" and Association Scholarship, Mariella Herygers 1 Vibration Testing of Lumber and Wood Structures Stora Forest Industries Scholarship, Tracey Practical Considerations and Possible Sources Jones, Dean MacDonald, Norman Grantley1 Trac of Error~ respectively. tors and Equipment Ltd. Prize in Forestry & Engineering, Darren Fillier, Dianna Hart1 and W.T. Whitehead Memorial Scholarship, Claude Lebel.
Faculty Hosts Dutch Visitors - 'li!.e Faculty of Forestry recently hosted two foresters from the Netherlands. Professor Martha ACCELERATE Goosen, a silviculture professor at Laren stein International Agricultural College and Mr. A. G. ff. Asschert, a planning officer YOUR CAREER! with the National Forest Service, were tour ing Canada to obtain first-hand knowledge of our forestry and forest enginee ring university programs and forest management practices. Other stops on the ir tour included Laval Uni versity, the University of Toronto, the Uni versity of Alberta, the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, provincial forestry departments and numerous private for est companies.
Forestry Freshman Orientation - This year for the first time, the Faculty of Forestry offered Discover the prestige and professional recognition its own academic orientation program for first a\tailable only through SA F's Continuing Forestry Education year students. The program coneisted of three Recognition Program. For information, see your compulsory three-hour sessions, a general intro state society CFE contact or chair. duction to the faculty followed by two study skills workshop& on note taking and time manage ment. Expectations of both students and facul ty members were presented and students were Continuing Forestry Education given the opportunity to talk to those in last years freshman class about professors, classes, and coping with first year univer- sity. .ls CFEU~
Congratulations to Mike Flailing who is the~ Yankee Division member of the New England SAF to earn a CFE certificate.
Activities that I have reviewed in the past three roonths are listed below. I have also canpiled a chrooological list of all evaluated programs that have LEAD taken place during the past three years. You may obtain a copy of this eleven page listing by sending a self-addressed, stan;>ed envelope to me at the Univer sity of Massachusetts. FREE* Activity/Date/LOCation Contact Hours/ category
Granite State Divisicn, SAF Winter Meeting; 2/13/87; ~n/ 2/I;4/II Plyirouth, NH
EKtens.ioo Tackles t.re Issues, An Educational Approach; 5/13-15/87; 12/II O:Junquit, ME
NH Tree Farm Inspectors Spring Ccmni. ttee Meeting and Tour; l/I; l. 5/II 5/15/87; Groton, VT NELSON TREE Land Protection Workshop; 3/15/88; Laconia, NH l/I; 5/II MARKING Effective Report and letter Writing seminar; 5/27,31 and 6/9/98; 18/II PAINTS Boston, MA •M colot7 IH~ 8'llt:1*pt darlr 11'"fl. Mllibw ~-·,._,be~- Urban Forestry Training Session; 9/11/88; Durham, NH 4/I THE NELSON PAINT COMPANY Workers ' ~sation Conference; 12/15/88; Concord, NH 6/II P.O. Box 907, Iron Mountain, Ml 49801 Telephone (906) n4-5566 Effective Self Managenent; 2/8-10/89; Hampton Beach, NH 13/II P.O. Box 9329, Montgomery, Al 36108 Telephone (205) 834-6393 Massachusetts Tree Farm Annual Luncheon Meeting; 2/16/89; 2/II Sturbridge, MA P.O Box 402, McMinnville. OR 97128 Telephone (503) 472·2628 30th Annual Winter Meeting, Yankee Division - SAF; 2/16/89; l/I;l/II Sturbridge, MA
Timber Supply Meeting; 3/7/99; Durham, NH 5/I
1-lll tiple Resource Conference; 4/20-21/99; Rochester, NH 8/I
How to Handle Tcxlay's Taxes and Plan for Tarorrow; 6/16/89; 5/II Boxborough, MA
Mass. Tree Farm Barbeque and Field Day; B/26/89; Belchertown, MA l/I
Mass. Assoc. of Professional Foresters Fall ()Jarterly Meeting; 4/I;l/II 10/4/89; Princeton, MA
Bi 11 Patterson 204 Hold.s\.l:>rth Hall 1REES. AMERICA'S RENEWABlE R£SOORCE. University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413-545-2665)
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