This is the conference for Conservation Commissions • Foresters • Timber Harvesters • Forest Land Owners • Land Trusts • Watershed Associations • Anyone Who Cares For or About Forests
Learn About Wetlands Protection Act requirements for forestry • Forest Cutting Practices Act • MOU between MA DEP and MA DCR for forests and wetlands protection • Working with foresters and conservation commissions • Forest management • Forest BMPs • Ecological functions and values of forests that require protection • Managing forests for environmental stewardship and conservation goals
Keynote Speaker David R. Foster, Director of the Harvard Forest, Principal Investigator for the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research program, noted ecologist, and author of many books, including Wildlands and Woodlands – A Vision for the New England Landscape, will give the keynote address.