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News from the Brought to You by the Yale School Forests an Introduction from Joseph Orefice, Ph.D News from the issue 12 | fall 2018 quiet corner brought to you by the yale school forests About the An Introduction from Joseph Orefice, Ph.D. quiet corner our new Director of Forest & Agricultural Operations initative Greetings residents and friends of Connecticut’s beef cattle herd, sold the farm, and moved to The Quiet Corner Initiative (QCI) supports local Quiet Corner. I am excited to have joined the Connecticut. The cows are now happily grazing livelihoods, sustainable forest management, and rural Yale School Forests and Faculty as of August. on 133 acres of land I purchased in Union; while economic development by building relationships between I am also thrilled to be joining all of you as a my partner, Lindsay, and I are working hard local landowners, conservation and forestry professionals, resident of Connecticut’s Quiet Corner. to get our new farm up and running. We are and the students and faculty of the Yale School of Forestry My position with Yale is new and my directive building a working farm from the ground up & Environmental Studies. Thank you to our alumni and the is to oversee operations on our school forests that specializes in grass-fed beef, agroforestry, rest of the Yale community for their support. while also providing forestry and agricultural delicious vegetables, and maple syrup. On-farm related education opportunities for our students, research and education is a passion of mine, and and neighbors in the Quiet Corner. I think there I am confident that Hidden Blossom Farm will A note from the is incredible value in providing students with be a resource for agroforestry innovation and Quiet Corner a world-class curriculum that dovetails with education right here in the Quiet Corner: www. practical experience. My teaching philosophy hiddenblossomfarm.com. Initiative Manager has been that the best education occurs when The heart of the Quiet Corner is the people in Greetings! students are able to apply what they’ve learned. the community and the heart of Yale University The Quiet Corner Initiative is a shining is our students; I could not be happier to join We are pleased to announce that the School Forests example of this philosophy as is the summer our team in connecting these two groups. The has decided to fund a full-time QCI manager in an immersion of Yale students into our school forest Quiet Corner Initiative has nearly a decade of effort to expand the impact of QCI. I was excited to management and research. While my new role history linking the people and resources of our step into that role in June after graduating from FES includes the day-to-day administration of many working landscape, and I hope my background with an MFS degree. As a student, my research focus of our school forest programs, it is the teaching in practical forestry and agriculture will serve was here at the Yale-Myers forest, exploring how and community extension component that I find an important niche in the years to come. My forests regenerate following timber harvesting. I came most rewarding. contact e-mail is [email protected], and to FES from a career as a consulting forester with a I come to the area most recently from the I would welcome input from the community on focus on western Connecticut and the Berkshires of ’17 Terry Rebecca Photo: Adirondack Mountains of New York where I how my new role and the Yale School Forests Massachusetts, and have a forestry degree from the wore many hats. For the better part of a decade can best support Connecticut’s Quiet Corner. University of New Hampshire. I chose to return to I was on the forestry faculty of Paul Smith’s school so that I could expand my career in forestry College, and I am proud to recall that many of to one with a stronger emphasis on outreach and our top students came from this education, and I’m very excited to strengthen and area of Connecticut. Most recently increase what QCI has to offer. I served as the Director of Cornell’s Updates from the Forest: Uihlein Maple Research Forest and Northern New York Maple This past summer at Yale-Myers marked the first Specialist in Lake Placid, NY. I summer season with full use of the new camp conducted research and extension buildings, as well as the new research lab. The Yale- efforts related to all aspects of Myers Forest Camp housed one of its largest groups maple and birch syrup production on record, with 12 students on forest crew, a team while running Cornell’s 6,000 tap of 8 undergraduate field ecology interns, as well as commercial sugarbush. staff, Ph.D., and Masters student researchers from FES. We also hosted five research seminars, four I also left behind my first farm environmental films, and four summer workshops, in the Adirondacks. It was there wrapping up with a game bird management that I researched and practiced workshop in conjunction with CT DEEP, the Ruffed agroforestry, most specifically Grouse Society, and The National Wild Turkey silvopasture, in addition to Federation. This fall also marked our 5th annual producing high tunnel vegetables. Harvest Festival (see some photos below!). However, it was far from where my siblings and parents live in Check out the save the dates section below to see what Harwinton, CT, and the additional we have lined up for the winter and spring! pull of my alma mater (Yale Master of Forestry 2009) brought Jess Wikle Quiet Corner Initiative Manager me home. This past July, I pulled Yale School Forests up what roots I could, loaded the most docile animals in my the qci newsletter is brought to you by Content by layout by The Yale School Forests Jess Wikle, Quiet Corner Initiative Manager, MFS '18; Yale School Forests 360 Prospect Street Joseph Orefice, Ph.D., MF '09; issue 12 | fall 2018 12 | fall issue New Haven, CT 06511 Laura Green, Naturalist Program Fellow & Research Coordinator, MF ’18; Kimi Zamuda, MESc '19; Rosa Goldman, MF ’19. New Haven, CT 06511 CT Haven, New Street Prospect 360 Initiative Corner Quiet Forests School Yale The Research Spotlight: Birds & Forest Management Laura Green, MF ’18, Naturalist Program Fellow & Research Coordinator Consider the peent of a woodcock calling 2009 paper found that shelterwoods hosted For birds like the prairie warbler and eastern from the edge of an old field, or the flash of a greater diversity of bird species than either towhee, which need low, shrubby habitat to a woodpecker as it swoops from tree to tree. canopy thinning treatments, or the mature breed, the past hundred years of reforestation Plants and birds are intimately linked, with forest. in New England have posed a challenge. vegetation determining where suitable nesting These species, which rely on early successional habitat is found, what food – both plant and To further investigate this, in 2016 a new group habitat, have seen their populations decline animal – is available, and where birds can seek of researchers published work looking at birds as the forest has closed in across the region. protection from predators. This suite of services across shelterwoods of varying ages to ask how Forest management that creates a more diverse broadly determines where on the landscape a bird diversity changed over time. The paper, landscape in terms of forest age and structure, given species of birds can forage or breed. What led by Dr. Marlyse Duguid and Hale Morrell, with patches of young forest, helps ensure role does forest management play in creating then an F&ES student, found different bird that these species will continue to have a place this landscape? For the last ten years, researchers species occupied shelterwoods at different to breed. Based on the research of scientists working at Yale-Myers Forest have been asking times since harvest. When they arrived at a working at YMF and in other temperate forests, that very question. shelterwood depended on when their preferred shelterwoods can create the more open habitat habitat – from dense shrubs to open ground needed by these species, while also retaining In 2009, a group led by Dr. Eben Goodale under complete canopy – was available. In canopy structure that allows species typically published a paper based on work at YMF the same year, F&ES student Juliana Hanle found in mature forest to persist. that showed a relationship between different returned to the same shelterwoods Duguid types of forest management and bird and Morrell had studied to ask a new question: Interested in learning more? Check out Foresters species diversity and abundance. One of the are these differences in bird occupancy related for the Birds, a program initially developed by management treatments they investigated was to the physical structure and composition of Audubon Vermont, which provides information, the shelterwood harvest. Shelterwoods are a forest vegetation? The resulting paper, which is field tours, and technical assistance on forest regeneration treatment which removes part currently being reviewed for publication, found management for bird habitat in several New of the overstory to create growing space for that a diversity of plants in the forest understory, England states. tree species that need some protection to get as well as a diverse and significant retention established, followed later by a removal of most of canopy trees, increases bird diversity and For links to the papers referenced, please email or all of the remaining canopy in order to let abundance in these harvests. Laura ([email protected]). those newly established trees take off. Goodale’s Fall 2018 Harvest Festival Thank you to our Quiet Corner partners for making the Harvest Festival a success.
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