Upcoming Management Activities
FY 2021 – 2022 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 2022. 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.
| Division |
Activity |
| Blackwood Division |
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday from September 27 until December 17, 2021)
- Commercial thinning
- Final harvest
- Seed tree removals
- Roadwork and mowing
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Natural Heritage Natural Area monitoring
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| Durham Division |
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday from September 27 until December 17, 2021)
- Commercial thinning
- Herbicide application (invasive species management, competition control)
- Regeneration counts (planted stands)
- Prescribed burning
- Seed tree removals
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Natural Heritage Natural Area monitoring
|
| Korstian Division |
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday from September 27 until December 17, 2021)
- Commercial thinning
- Boundary line maintenance
- Herbicide application (invasive species management, competition control)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Natural Heritage Natural Area monitoring
|
| Edeburn Division (formerly Eno Div.) |
- Herbicide application (invasive species management)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Trail maintenance
- Natural Heritage Natural Area monitoring
|
| Hillsboro Division |
- Herbicide application (invasive species management)
- Roadwork and mowing
- Resampling of forest inventory plots
- Walnut twig beetle monitoring
- Natural Heritage Natural Area monitoring
|
| Dailey Division |
- Deer management (closed to all public recreation from September 27 through January 1, 2022)
- Herbicide application (boundary maintenance, invasive species management)
- Roadwork and mowing
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| Other Projects |
- New Gate 34 installation
- Painting gate posts and sign maintenance
- Closure of unauthorized trails
- Repairs/rehab of research infrastructure
- Research site support and up-keep
- Bridge repairs
- Logging road repairs
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