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Master's Project: An Ecological Assessment Of The Atlas Timberlands, Vermont, Hannah B. Phillips
Master's Project: An Ecological Assessment Of The Atlas Timberlands, Vermont, Hannah B. Phillips
Rubenstein School Masters Project Publications
Vermont's second-largest timber holding will soon be sold. Flanking the remote summits of the northern Green Mountains, the Atlas Timberlands comprise nearly 26,000 acres of forest, which, for the last twenty years, have been owned by the Vermont Land Trust (VLT) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Originally acquired from the Atlas Plywood Corporation in an effort to maintain large forested blocks managed with ecological forestry principles, VLT and TNC will now sell the lands to a new generation of land stewards. Although the land will change hands, the ecologically significant sites will remain protected under conservation easements.
In preparation for …