management goals

  • Timber products
  • Hunting
  • Active recreation - ATV trails, access roads, shooting ranges
  • Soil and water conservation
  • Wildlife habitat
  • Bird watching
  • Hiking
  • Camping
  • Orienteering
  • Firewood
  • Maple production
Mature forest community conservation
Pit and mound topography requires successional generations of mature forest to form, or hundreds of years for a forest floor to begin to exhibit these characteristics - that is after mature trees have aged out and fallen back to the forest floor.
Vernal pools may form in the pits of the forest floor and support a wide variety of wildlife
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Salamanders and other amphibians travel miles to reach ancestral pools