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NY Establishes "Model Managed Forest" The City of New York, working with various New York state agencies and the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has decided to designate a 415-acre tract of state forest in Putnam County for development as a model managed forest, to demonstrate the successful union of commercial and conservation goals and "to convince local owners of forests to provide conservation easements to the state," in the words of the state's watershed inspector general. As reported in the Westchester, New York Journal News, the project calls for construction of up to two miles of logging roads, as well as skid trails, to be installed by the Army Corps of Engineers. State officials point above all to this project's benefits to the watershed and to the opportunity to suppress non-native, invasive species, and note that it has the support of the New York Public Interest Research Group, along with other conservation groups. Others find it very difficult to walk away from a prescription of neglect. "A forest left alone and allowed over time to become something approximating what was here before settlement is the best of all possible worlds," comments the World Wildlife Fund's conservation director. Back to News Forest Resources Association
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