What does it mean to think like a forester? What does a trained forester see when they walk out into the woods?

Please join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy on Saturday, December 2, at 12PM at Charlotte C. Browne Woods, for “Explore a Forester’s Mind” with longtime consulting forester Dan Stepanauskas. Visit the north and south lot at C.C. Browne Woods with Dan as he shares how he considers the whole picture in our northern forests. He will discuss all the factors that go into forest management decisions, including climate, carbon, sustainability, and even the specific thoughts involved in marking which trees are to be cut. He’ll also talk about how forest management techniques are changing to counteract climate change and to grow tree species that will survive for 80 years. And he might tell a few stories about working in British Columbia, in the Cascades for the US Forest Service, in North Carolina, in northern Minnesota for Native people, and in Ontario for a large Canadian timber company! He hopes participants will leave with a renewed commitment to treating their land gently.

This free program is part of the CML/CLC series “Climate & Community.” Please register in advance below so that we can let you know of any changes to the schedule. In the case of inclement weather, the program will take place inside at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth village. The library is wheelchair accessible.

Dan Stepanauskas has been a consulting forester in New Hampshire for over 40 years. He works on the sustainable management of private and municipal forest lands. His career has taken him from working for the US Forest Service in Washington State, to conducting Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification of large tracts of forest from northern Ontario and Minnesota, to South Carolina and the assessment of Native American land management throughout the eastern United States. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Upper Saco Valley Land Trust, and is the forester for Tin Mountain Conservation Center.