Nature in Your Backyard: Choosing and Using the Trees in Your Woods

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Smith Pond Shaker Forest
Enfield, NH 03748
United States

About the Nature in Your Backyard Series 

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Owners of even just a few acres can make a positive difference in their environment through planning and implementing simple stewardship practices learned in The Nature in Your Backyard Series. This series of six online webinars and two field sessions is designed specifically (but not exclusively) for smaller landowners, with under 20 acres. Woodlots large and small can support wildlife, protect water quality, generate firewood and other forest products, and provide recreation and enjoyment. Whether you are interested in adding some native plants to your yard, enhancing habitat for birds, assessing the health of your trees, cutting trees for firewood, or just learning more about what’s around you, this series can help you become a better steward of your property. 

About this Session

Do you heat with wood? Do you want to get your firewood from your own land? Are you interested in forest health and wildlife habitat? Did you know that you can cut your own firewood and improve the health of your woods and make them better for wildlife all at the same time? You can accomplish these goals when you know which trees to cut and why.

Join Grafton County Forester Jim Frohn and Merrimack County Forester Tim Fleury for an in-the-woods workshop. We’ll discuss tree identification, choosing which trees to grow and which trees to cut to meet landowner goals, and the best woods for heating. We’ll also discuss some other potential uses for harvested trees and get some practice actually choosing trees to cut and trees to grow through a hands-on exercise. 

This trip will require walking on some uneven surfaces (e.g., exposed roots or rocks, boardwalks, steep slopes) and/or on narrow trails where brushing against vegetation can't be avoided. Participating in any outdoor workshop will expose participants to the risk of encountering ticks. If you participate in an outdoor workshop, please do a thorough tick-check immediately after the trip.

Space is limited and registration is required. Click here to register.

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Jim Frohn

Natural Resources Field Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension

Jim Frohn is the Grafton County Forester for University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. He worked as an operations forester on private and public lands for a variety of organizations in northern New England for over 20 years. He has over twenty-five years of experience choosing and using trees through his work as a forester and a couple of years as a full-time logger. He continues to use a chainsaw in his spare time and is now enjoying his role in forestry education. Jim has a BS in forest management from the University of Maine, and an MBA from Plymouth State University.  

 

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Tim Fleury

Natural Resources Field Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension

Tim Fleury has been the Merrimack County Extension Forester since 1996 where he helps promote forest resource conservation through public education and to advise landowners on the proper management of their forestland.  A quick sample of some of the topics I’ll try to help you with include woodlot management, current use assessment, creating wildlife habitat, forestry cost-sharing, community resource-based conservation, building forest access roads, conserving open spaces, and Christmas tree growing. 

He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1983, and a Master of Science degree from the University of Minnesota in 1995.  His previous forestry experience includes a stint as Forestry/Conservation Extensionist with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic (‘83 - ‘86), a Forestry Technician with U.S. Forest Service in Southeast Alaska, and several years as a Forestry Consultant in Western New England. He was the Forest Stewardship Program Coordinator for University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System prior to his arrival in New Hampshire. He lives in Sunapee with his wife, Patricia Halpin, who is a professor at UNH Manchester. They have two adult sons who graduated from UNH. His youngest son is pursuing a career in Forestry. 

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