Upcoming Management Activities

FY 2019 – 2020 Management and Operational Activities

A wide range of timber management, silvicultural, and maintenance activities are undertaken to manage the Duke Forest. Below is a list of actions by division that are planned for the current fiscal year, which ends in June 2020. 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	Commercial thinning Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday, September 23 – December 13, 2019) Prescribed burning Roadwork and mowing Walnut twig beetle monitoring
Durham	Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday, September 23 – December 13, 2019) Herbicide application (invasive species management, competition control) Regeneration counts (naturally regenerated stands) Prescribed burning Pre-commercial thinning Roadwork and mowing Walnut twig beetle monitoring
Korstian	Deer management (closed to all public recreation Monday – Friday, September 23 – December 13, 2019) Herbicide application (invasive species management) Pre-commercial thinning Roadwork and mowing Natural heritage monitoring Walnut twig beetle monitoring
Edeburn	Commercial thinning Pre-commercial thinning Herbicide application (invasive species management) Roadwork and mowing
Hillsboro	Regeneration counts (naturally regenerated and planted stands) Herbicide application (invasive species management) Roadwork and mowing Walnut twig beetle monitoring
Dailey	Deer management (closed to all public recreation September 8 – January 1, 2020) Herbicide application (boundary maintenance, invasive species management) Roadwork and mowing
Other Projects	Painting gate posts and sign maintenance Closure of unauthorized trails Repairs/rehab of research infrastructure Research site support and up-keep\ Bridge repairs (Korstian, Durham)