Category: Sustaining Working Forests
Local Forests Are Helping to Reduce Carbon Footprint for One New England College
Our woodland owning clients sometimes like to know where their wood is going and what it’s going to be used for after a harvest. So today we’re telling the story of the not-so-lowly wood chip, and how it’s keeping New Englanders warm in winter. When we at Hull Forest Products buy your timber and saw…
Woodland Management Provides Income, Recreational Opportunity, and a Forestry Education at Connecticut’s Camp Tadma
Managing for Multiple Use: The Mark Greer Scout Reservation Like so many Scout properties, Camp Tadma, an active boys summer camp in Bozrah, CT found itself on the chopping block in 2010 as the Boy Scout Council considered selling the 340-acre property. Friends of Camp Tadma Chairman Bruce Sullivan hoped that a timber harvest would…
Preserving May Brook Glen
October 2010- The Hull family has donated a 3.3 acre parcel in Holland, Massachusettts, comprising May Brook Glen to the Opacum Land Trust in order to see the parcel protected from development. May Brook Glen has over 1,000 feet of frontage on May Brook, which rushes and tumbles over rapids in May Brook Glen and…
Why It’s Good to Use Wood
The increased use of wood is one of our most important forest conservation tools. If you’re reading this blog, you may already be aware that working (i.e. managed) forests are the key to forest conservation. But, for those unconvinced, read on. Increasing the use of wood benefits the environment, economy, and community. The…
Helping Nature Conservancy Conserve Working Forests
March 2009- By conveying an easement on 450 acres of forestland it owns and manages in Union, CT, Hull Forestlands has helped the Nature Conservancy reach its 50,000 acre mark of protected forests, rivers, and coastline across the state. The conservation easement, established with the help of a grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation…
Old Growth Forest Identified and Preserved
June 2003- A Glimpse of the Precolonial Forest in Ashfield, Massachusetts When our family land trust, Hull Forestlands, purchased the Sears Meadow Forest in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 2000, we realized there was a very old stand of eastern hemlock and white pine on the property. Tall and stately with deeply furrowed bark, these trees stand…