Photo by Briana Shepherd | USDA Forest Service | 10.30.2024
Kaleigh Choi, forestry technician for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests spots a tree she suspects may be valuable to wildlife. Pointing, she seeks a second opinion regarding the health of the tree from Amelia 'Melly' Napper, Vermont Public Lands forester for the Ruffed Grouse Society (left). (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)...
Photo by Briana Shepherd | USDA Forest Service | 10.30.2024
James Donahey, forester and silviculturist for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, stands in a red pine plantation in decline. (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)...
Photo by Briana Shepherd | USDA Forest Service | 10.30.2024
James Donahey, forester and silviculturist for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests just finishes marking this tree to keep, having confirmed the crevices of the trunk are the right size for bats to move in. (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)...
Photo by Briana Shepherd | USDA Forest Service | 10.30.2024
A member of the timber marking crew holds a spray paint can used to mark the trees for a future logger. Trees painted orange will stay and the trees painted yellow will be harvested. (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)...
Photo by Briana Shepherd | USDA Forest Service | 10.30.2024
Standing in the heart of the red pine plantation, you can feel the density of the species and notice that many of the red pine have begun to lean toward openings left behind by the trees that have succumb to pests. (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)...
