Slate of topics: using GPS, developing roads and trails, forest management techniques, selling timber

Forests occupy more than 80 percent of New Hampshire's land base. Nearly three-quarters of these forested acres are in the hands of private landowners.

We depend on the stewardship of these landowners to deliver the many benefits our working forests provide, from our billion-dollar forest products industry, to wildlife habitat, to the scenic backdrop that makes New Hampshire such a desirable place to live and visit, to the many invisible environmental services such as flood buffering, water quality protection, and carbon storage.

Caring for Your Forest workshops
Each year, Cooperative Extension foresters partner with other natural resources professionals to offer a series of workshops on timely topics that inform forest landowners on how to meet their private objectives while protecting the many public values the forests provide.

This fall's Caring for Your Forest workshops all take place at the Merrimack County Extension office. Topics include:

• Using GPS on your woodlot.
• Constructing and maintaining roads and trails.
• The basics of silviculture, the art and science of regenerating and tending trees and forests
• Basics of a successful timber sale (covers contracts and timber-harvesting laws).

Interested? Get the details