Upcoming Management Activities

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

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