s• QUARTERLY New Englandof Society American Foresters Vol. 59 #3 July 1998 L-t_�������� ���� �__&�<� 98 Ice Storm Recovery Program Green Certification Heads for Help Is Avaible New York State Lands The National Wildlife Federation announced in By Gail Michaels May that 1t 1s beginning a nine-month evaluation to determine the sustainability of harvesting operations in New By now, almost everyone is aware of the ice storms of York state forests as part of a pilot educational proJect in January, 1998, which damaged nearly 17 million acres of conjunction with the New York Department of rural and urban forests in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Environmental Conservation. The evaluation, which covers and New York. 37 counties were designated Federal 700,000 acres of New York state's "multiple use" forest disaster areas. The affected areas include a large portion of lands, builds on a growing national and international effort the Northern Forest Lands study area, and southern and to certify sustainable forest management through the use coastal areas of Maine and New Hampshire. of independent scientific review teams. Under this program, wood from "certified forests" can be labeled and Meteorologists labeled this a 100 year event. Thousands of marketed as coming from well-managed forests. Certified trees in dozens of communities were damaged or forests are deemed to successfully balance long term destroyed, and miles of trails and woods roads are littered timber production with the maintenance of critical wildlife with debris. Foresters, loggers, and users risk entering habitat, forest biodiversity, and other necessary ecological forests full of broken, dangling limbs. In many cases, the features. reduced value and the danger in these stands makes it The 700,000 acres of land to be evaluated unlikely they will be harvested anytime soon. comprise the "working forest" portion of New York state forest lands. These lands are designated for logging, Mirroring land ownership patterns in the northeast, most of hunting, fishing, and dispersed recreation. However, none the damage was to private lands. Damaged acres are of the forest lands to be evaluated fall within the State Park roughly as follows: Maine: 11,300,000; New Hampshire: system, or within the blue line of the Adirondack or Catskill 700,000; Vermont: 700,000; New York: 4,600,000. The Parks. This certification assessment 1s being conducted at White Mountain National Forest had nearly 200,000 acres no expe_nse to New York taxpayers. Funding for the project of damage; the Green Mountain, 30,000. Of the total acres is being provided by the Great Lakes Protection Fund, which damaged, about 5 million are severe. is also sponsoring SmartWood assessments on state and county lands in Michigan and Wisconsin this year. The states and the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area A four person review team consisting of experts have been cooperating on several aspects of the in forest ecology, wildlife biology, harvesting systems and assessment and recovery: social science will take to the woods this August and supplement its field work with a series of public meetings Damage Assessment: Regional protocols for aerial and and interviews with key forest and local interest groups ground surveys have been developed and agreed to. States throughout New York State. NWF's Northeast Natural may collect information above and beyond the protocols. Resources Center from Montpelier, Vermont will lead the For example, Maine has flown roughly 2 Y, million acres at certification review team. Last June, the NWF/SmartWood 1:9000 scale. Forest Health Monitoring, North American program certified the first state forest land unit in the Maple Project, and Forest Inventory and Analysis plots in United States on the 58,000 acres of managed forest the storm footprint area will be re-surveyed. Urban damage surrounding the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts. Since asses ment protocols are being developed now, � then successful state forest land certifications have been coordinated by the Northeast Center for Urban and completed for portions of Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Community Forestry at U Mass. SmartWood is the oldest forest certification program and was pioneered ten years ago in tropical Recovery Costs: States agreed on a common breakdown of rainforest regions to ensure the long-term environmental estimated costs, which were compiled by the Forest and social sustainability of wood consumption from those Service into a regional product. Costs were estimated for regions. The organization has certified approximately 1.5 Planning and Assessment, Recovery and Restoration, million acres in the United States and 3 million acres Monitoring, Technical Assistance, and Information and internationally., The cert1ficat1on system is administered by Education. the internationally-recognized Forest Stewardship Council. (Cont on Page 9) Information for this article was provided by Smartwood Members Serving you in 1998 NEW ENGLAND OFFICERS Chair - Leo Laferriere, Rd Box 360, Waitsfield, VT 05673 (H)802-496-2515 (0)485-5263 (FAX)485-7565 Vice-Chair - Robert M. Ricard, W. Hartford Ext. Cntr., 1800 Asylum Avenue, W. Hardford, CT 06117 (0)860-570-9257 (FAX) 241-4960 Sec - James A. Stewart, PO Box 486, Kingsfield, ME 04947 (0)207-246-2101 (FX)246-6542 Treas - David Maas, 4 Westview Dr., Raymond, ME 04071 (0)207-655-2393 (FX)655-5082 Exec Dir - Richard Watt, PO Box 954, Montpelier, VT 05601 (O&FAX)802-229-4111 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE lmmed Past Chair - Karen Bennett, PO Box 261, Antrim, NH 03440 (0)603·862-4861 (FAX)862-0107 Canada - Richard A. Wightman, Faculty of Forestry & Env. Mgt., UNB, Bag 44555, Fredericton, N B, Canada E3B 6C2 (0)506-453-4666 (FX)453-3538 Connecticut - Leland Sanders, 36 Beach Rock Rd., Pleasant Valley, CT 06063 (0)860-379-0916 ext 3104 Maine - Carol Redelsheimer, 20 Penobscott St., Orono, ME 04473 (H)(O)(F) 207-866-5936 Massachusetts - Austin Mason Ill, PO Box 913, Tremont St., S. 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Attleboro, Ma 02760 (W)508-698-1673 News Quarterly - Gary Salmon, RR 1 Box 665, Cuttingsville VT 05738 (H)802-492-3315 (0)483-2733 (FAX)802-483-9374 DIVISION OFFICERS Granite State Chair - Charles Niebling, INRS, 18 Low Ave., Concord, NH 03301 (0)603-226-0012 (H)753-8603 Vice-Chair - Peter Farrell, Box 111, Alton, NH 03809, (0)603-875-7626 Secretary - Paul Mulcahey, 3 Old Mill Pond Road, Henniker, NH 03242 (0)603-526-8686 Treasurer - J.B. Cullen, Div. Forests and Lands, PO Box 1856, Concord, NH 03302 (0)603-271-3457 (H)269-5740 News Corres - Jonathan Nute, Chappell Professional Bldg., Rt 13, S. Milford, NH 03055 (H)603-783-9684 (0)673-2510 Green Mountain Chair - Sara Packer, RR 1. Box 52C, Derby, VT 05829 802-766-2734 Vice-Chair - Jonathan Wood, PO Box 35, Jeffersonville, VT 05464 (H)802-644-5325 (0)644-2221 Secretary - Chris Casey, 10 Pine St., Bristol, VT 05443 (H)802-453-4683 (0)388-4362 Treasurer - Ray Toolan, Dpt. 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Tremblay (see Sec/Treas) Connecticut Chair - Larry Rousseau, CT DEP-Forestry, 230 Plymouth Rd., Harwinton, CT 06759 (0)860-485-0226 Vice-Chair - Tom Degnan, 22 Caulkins Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371 (H)860·434-3497 (0)203-245-7436 Sec/Treas - Rexford Myers, 153 Crystal Lake Rd., Ellington, CT 06029 (H)860-665-3831 News Corres · Tom Degnan, (see Vice-Chair) Canada News Corres, N. Brunswick· Ardith Armstrong, Outreach Coordinator, UNB. Bag 44555, Fredericton, NB E3B 6C2 (0)506-453-4501 News Corres, Quebec - Kim Lowell, Pavilion Casault/Local 1327, Urnvers1te Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, G 1 K 7P4 (H)418-889-8379 (0)656-7998 Council Delegate Charles Levesque, Innovative Nat. Res. Solutions, 37 Old Pound Rd, Antrim, NH 03440 (O)(FX)603-588-3272 Phone in Concord, NH (0)603-226-0112 (FX)603-226-0499 lhe News Quarterly is the official publication of the New England Society of American Foresters It is published in January, April, July.