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Community Forests : A Study Of New Hampshire's Town-Owned Forests, Anna Christie-Carnicella
Community Forests : A Study Of New Hampshire's Town-Owned Forests, Anna Christie-Carnicella
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
New England states have a long history of forest management, beginning in the seventeenth century, with community forests evolving over time from communal forests during colonial times to town-owned forests managed by conservation commissions in the present time. New Hampshire towns provided a case study of the current state of town-owned forest protection and management, with a focus on timber management. I administered a survey to 50 randomly sampled towns and received data from 29 about permanent protection and management activities on town-owned forestland (≥ 50 acres). I used this data, demographic, and landscape data, to evaluate permanent protection and …