Nashua River Communities |
Resilient Lands Management Project
CLINTON | BOLTON
Forest
Care Guides
Forests are dynamic, interconnected communities – a diverse set of microbes, plants, trees, animals, and humans – that all depend on each other, and work together, to create the conditions that enable life. Healthy forests are not only more resilient to the impacts of climate change, but they are also essential to mitigation and adaptation. They provide ecosystem benefits that store and sequester carbon, support biodiversity, improve water and air quality, and provide us with food, medicine, and health.
The reports and materials included on this page come from the Forest Task Group of the Nashua River Communities Resilient Lands Project, which met between the Fall of 2021 and the Summer of 2022. Members shared different perspectives, observations, and knowledge.
The reports distill and interpret the Forest Task Group’s comments and insights, making explicit how to achieve the goals and principles that the group identified. The Forest Task Group identified principles for caring for forests to ensure the health and well-being of all species in forested ecosystems, and as such, takes steps to avoid impacts of climate change. The framework that emerged from the Forest Task Group offers many different ways to think about relating to and acting in partnership with, forested areas in Clinton and Bolton.
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The Forest Guide is available below
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Forest Care Guides for Special Audiences
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Online Resources
Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard is the author of Finding the Mother Tree. Below are video resources that introduce and discuss her work. Themes in this book are present in the Nashua River Forest Guides.
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Introducing the idea of Mother Trees and Simard’s book Finding the Mother Trees HERE
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More on the Wood Wide Web HERE
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Want to go deeper on Simard's work? Here you go!
https://longnow.org/ideas/02021/05/15/mother-trees-and-social-forest/
Other Resources
Local Spotlight on Forest Potential: Forests Through the Eyes of Rebecca Longvall
(Peyton Siler Jones)
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Local Spotlight on Forest Potential: Rauscher Farm Through the Eyes of Gloria Parkinson
(Peyton Siler Jones)
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"Using Our Forests to Fight Climate Change"
"Carbon Storage in Earth's Ecosystems"
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Additional resources are available on the Apple Country Natural Climate Solutions project website: https://climateresilient.wixsite.com/applecountry/forests