<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Globe Article,<br>I made a couple of hard statements in this article that needs further clarification. The cutting practices that bothered me are on the north Quabbin. The south Quabbin foresters are doing excellent work and were not a concern of mine or of the Green Certification audit this past spring. But the north Quabbbin foresters work was of great concern to the auditors and as a result required significant corrective actions on the part of the Division of Water Supply Protection (DWSP). My concerns were the same as the audit team, namely that the 1-2 acre clear cuts did not provide for adequate diverse regeneration and the patches were often in the better timber, leaving low vigor and poor quality areas uncut. Remember that the Quabbin had serious over browsing of deer for over 50 years, and consequently the regeneration that normally develops in the
understory did not happen. As Rufin mentioned, clear cutting older stands generally results in good regeneration because the regeneration is in place. However,Yvonne understood the problem, that without regeneration it's a slow process through shelterwood cuts to establish diverse regeneration. <br><br>Chris Materia, unfortunately can't tell the difference between a good clear cut and a poor one and treats them all the same to stop cutting on DCR forest. DCR did conduct some clearcuts in dying spruce plantation which responded dramatically with diverse vibrant regeneration, but Materia cares little for the success only the photo op after the cut.<br><br>Unfortunately the DWSP clearcuts, however small, were not forestry, just bad work. The likely results of clearcutting an 80 year old oak stand is a stand of black birch and maybe some pine.<br><br>Planting chestnuts in clear cuts that do not have advance regeneration exposes the chestnuts to browsing
because they are the only trees available. It is far better to have lots of small trees for the chestnuts to compete with and there is a greater supply of food available for browsers and good competition for the chestnuts.<br><br>I hope this clarifies my Globe comments.<br>Bruce<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/12/10, Yvonne Federowicz <i><Yvonne_Federowicz@brown.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Yvonne Federowicz <Yvonne_Federowicz@brown.edu><br>Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Globe article on clear cutting in MA<br>To: masschestnutorchards@masschestnut.org<br>Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 11:25 AM<br><br><div id="yiv160695834">
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It sounds like some of the cuts might have made it more difficult to re-establish forest, since they didn’t properly do a “shelterwood” cutting? Would these also make it more difficult to plant chestnut?<br>
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It would be good to hear from Bruce, Dennis and Lois. I doubt we’ll be in the position to make any official statements anyhow as a group, probably not an issue – unless someone cuts our trees or improperly prepares a site that is agreed upon for one of our plantings, in the future.<br>
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Re. expressing opinions - seems more like a situation where Massachusetts residents might want to express opinions as citizens, or forestry professionals – as Bruce has done.<br>
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On 3/12/10 10:03 AM, "Gary Jacob" <<a rel="nofollow">gjacob@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#1f497d">Interesting article. It is too bad that a state like Massachusetts should be setting such a bad example. I think it is important, however, that we not take a position or express any official opinions concerning this issue.<br>
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What we should do is to begin thinking about different planting plans we would use, for future American chestnuts, depending on whatever harvesting situation we may find.<br>
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Gary<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow">masschestnutorchards-bounces@masschestnut.org</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces@masschestnut.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=masschestnutorchards-bounces@masschestnut.org">mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces@masschestnut.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jamie Donalds<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> orchard mgrlist<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MassChestnutOrchards] Globe article on clear cutting in MA<br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi All,<br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Here is an article in the Globe I found this morning about clear cutting in MA. It has a quote from Bruce Spencer.<br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I would like to here more about this issue and how it might affect future restoration plantings at Quabbin and elsewhere. <br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Does this effect any plans for our seed orchard at Moore State Park?<br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps Bruce , Dennis or Lois would be interested in talking on this subject at the April Meeting?<br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Food for thought,<br>
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