1.7K views · 28 reactions | Forest ecology and woodland management were the topics at The Berry Center's recent chainsaw safety and skills training. This continuing education opportunity equips our Team for Healthy Parks to keep your favorite trails clear and your park woodlands sustainable. The Berry Center | Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy | Facebook

I’m doing this forest management project this winter where we’re facilitating the development of a young, field-origin stand into a more diverse forest of species well-suited to this site. One of the ways that we’re helping this young forest become more diverse and complex and more like an old-growth forest is by cutting most of the white pine trees that are just here as a “successional” species but ultimately aren’t going to be a big part of this forest in the long term. Even though we’re cutti