WILTON — The Foothills Land Conservancy annual meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, at Academy Hill School cafeteria. Guest speaker is licensed forester Harry Dwyer who will talk about practices that can help wildlife.
The public is invited.
Pamela Prodan, Land Committee chairperson said, “Harry is a licensed forester who is preparing a forest management plan for Foothills’ property this year. He has considerable experience in designing and implementing these forestry practices, and will take questions from the audience.”
Under Foothills’ conservation easement with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Foothills is generally not allowed to cut standing timber on the property, but can thin trees and perform other forestry practices to improve stands of trees and enhance the wildlife habitat quality. Foothills has applied for funding under the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program to develop and implement a number of these practices in the wooded areas of the Foothills property above Wilson Lake. These funds are available through the federal Forest Initiative.
Prodan said, “Foothills already has a variety of flowering and fruiting shrubs that provide food for birds and other wildlife. Fields are mowed to provide a more diverse and structured wildlife habitat.”
Foothills Land Conservancy was founded in 1997 and acquired the 238-acre parcel of conservation land in Wilton on June 15, 1999. In 2001, the organization conveyed a conservation easement to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which insures that the property will remain forever and its primarily undeveloped condition, protects the wildlife habitat resources and water quality, and preserves traditional public uses of the property. For more information, contact Prodan at 645-2155 or 645-9330.
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