A forest management plan for Belt Woods Natural Environment Area in Prince George's County, Md., recommends controlling invasive species and white-tailed deer to improve tree regeneration. (Video by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Loblolly pine trees show stages of forest regeneration in different parts of the same property in Dorchester County. TOP: A stand was clear-cut in 2018. MIDDLE: A stand was clear-cut in 1996 and then thinned in 2017. BOTTOM: Trees aged about 70–90 years suggest the area was a farm field abandoned sometime between the Great Depression and World War II. (Photos by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
The cerulean warbler was the focus of a 97-acre timber harvest at Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area in Berkeley County, W.Va., in 2016. The project benefits a wide range of songbirds, wild turkey, gray squirrels and other species. It created more gaps in the tree canopy, allowing openings for smaller herbaceous plants that don't grow in dense, mature stretches of forest. (Photos by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Anne Hairston-Strang of the Maryland Forest Service receives a Forest Champion award presented by Sally Claggett of the U.S. Forest Service, center, and Craig Highfield of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay during the 2019 Chesapeake Watershed Forum in Shepherdstown, W.Va. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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