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Forest Conservation Practices at Grovers Creek Preserve
November 14 , 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Join Great Peninsula Conservancy’s stewardship manager Adrian Wolf and Northwest Natural Resource Group’s lead forester Jaal Mann on Nov. 14, 2024, on a free tour of an actively managed lowland coniferous forest. Objectives for the 320-acre Grovers Creek Preserve include increasing forest resilience and improving structural and species diversity through commercial thinning, gap cuts, and creating wildlife habitat structures. As we walk through several treatment units, we’ll will discuss the successes and challenges of planning and implementing ecological forestry practices and how we select trees for removal in a thinning. Wolf and Mann will also discuss an effort to capture bird response to the practices using remote acoustic monitoring devices. Come prepared to walk a short distance over rough terrain (not ADA accessible) through thinning and gap-cut treatment areas. Bring lunch, snacks, water, comfortable walking shoes, and your ecological forestry questions!
Funding for the free tour is provided through Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/landtrust/).
Speakers
Jaal Mann | Lead Forester | Northwest Natural Resource Group
Adrian Wolf | Stewardship Manager | Great Peninsula Conservancy
