Updated 10/07/2009
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Walking weekend at Yale-Myers forest - Oct. 3-4, 2009


Yale Myers Forest and Art Talmadge once again co-hosted a walking weekend.  Unfortunately, rainy weather cancelled the horse and oxen logging demonstration, but visitors were able to learn about the forest and sugar bush management. Photo gallery below.
Connecticut Forests Conference - Feb 2009                                              

Information
Yale Myers hosts Field Course for visiting group from Japan's Utsunomiya University

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 NEWSLETTER 2009
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(Previous editions can be found here.)
 Hybrid American Chestnut Plantings
Yale - Society of American Foresters chapter planted hybrid American Chestnut orchard at Yale-Myers Forest in April 2008.  The orchard will some day provide seed for future outplantings in forests throughout the region. Photo
 		From the archives:
 
...recently-unearthed posters from field days held at the Yale Toumey Forest in the 1920s. Download here, here, and here.
Photo Galleries


2008 Walking Weekends (photos by Yale Photographer Michael Marsland)
October 18, Yale Myers Forest and the Cranberry Hill Farm once again co-hosted a farm tour and horse and oxen logging demonstration as part of The Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor's Walking Weekends.


2006 Walking Weekends
On October 14th and 15th, the Yale Myers Forest and the Cranberry Hill Farm co-hosted a farm tour and horse logging demonstration as part of The Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor's Walking Weekends.


2006 Game Of Logging
Each year, a group of Master of Forestry students journeys to Paul Smith's College to participate in the Game of Logging, a 2 day training course that teaches basic chain saw operation, safety and maintenance, and directional tree felling.


2006 Prescribed Fire
The 2006 prescribed burn took place in the Red Front Lot at Yale Myers Forest on Thursday, April 20.


Historical Photos of the Yale Myers Forest
Yale Forest Historian Phil Marshall has checked in with an excellent gallery of 1930s-era photographs taken in and around the Yale Myers Forest.
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