The timber harvest at PLC’s 195-acre Tuthill Preserve in New Boston has wrapped up for the winter. The long-planned harvest got under way in late January, and was about 80% complete when work had to be suspended near the end of February due to the early thaw. The loggers performing the Tuthill harvest, D.H. Hardwick & Sons of Bennington, had another seven to ten days of work to go. As of now our plan is to have them come back in January 2019 to complete the harvest.

In the near-term, the Hardwicks and PLC’s foresters from Meadowsend Timberlands will come back once the ground has firmed up to put the roads and log landing “to bed” by installing water bars, seeding the landing etc.

Acquired by PLC in 2003, the 195-acre Tuthill Preserve is among our largest land ownerships, and is one of the best suited to forest management. PLC commissioned a forest inventory and management plan for the Tuthill Preserve in 2016. The plan was written by licensed foresters from Meadowsend Timberlands, which has extensive expertise in timber management on conserved properties. The Meadowsend foresters mapped out and marked the harvest in the summer and fall of 2017, and supervised the cutting and hauling of the timber this winter.