How do DEPs Professional Foresters Promote Healthy and High Quality, Sustainable State Forests?
To start, DEP foresters carefully identify and map the different stands of trees found in each State Forest. Then, the foresters examine each stand, collecting scientific data that is later analyzed and used in management planning. Long-term forest management plans are developed for each State Forest, incorporating measures to address the needs of wildlife, water quality, recreation and the sustainable production of forest products. Foresters then implement the elements of the long-term plans by planning and overseeing commercial harvests, prescribed fires or other work to shape the forest.
