FY 2023 – 2024 Management and Operational Activities
A wide range of timber management, silvicultural, and maintenance activities are undertaken to steward the Duke Forest. Below is a list of actions by division that are planned for the current fiscal year, which ends in June 2024. Please note that we do not include on-the-ground harvest operations because we do not always know when the timber will be removed; a purchaser typically has up to 24 months from the date of the sale to do so.
Blackwood Division
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation from September 25 through December 15th, 2023)
- Commercial thinning
- Precommercial thinning
- Roadwork and mowing
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Regeneration counts (planted stands)
- Prescribed burning
- Planting
- Boundary line maintenance
Durham Division
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation from September 25 through December 15th, 2023)
- Commercial thinning
- Precommercial thinning
- Planting
- Regeneration counts (planted stands)
- Herbicide application (invasive species management, hardwood control)
- Prescribed burning (understory and site prep)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Natural Heritage Area monitoring
- Boundary line maintenance
Korstian Division
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation from September 25 through December 15th, 2023)
- Commercial thinning
- Boundary line maintenance
- Herbicide application (invasive species management)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
Edeburn Division (formerly Eno Div.)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
Hillsboro Division
- Herbicide application (invasive species management)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Boundary line maintenance
Dailey Division
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation from September 25, 2023 through January 1, 2024)
- Final Harvest
- Roadwork and mowing
Other Projects
- New Gate installation
- Painting gate posts and sign maintenance
- Closure of unauthorized trails
- Repairs/rehab/demo of research infrastructure
- Research site support and up-keep
- Bridge repairs
- Logging road repairs
- Well repairs
- 20% resample of continuous forest inventory