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Timber Harvesting with Birds in Mind Woods Tour

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On Saturday, January 26, 2013, Audubon Vermont and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation will be hosting a woods tour of an active logging job that demonstrates concepts and practices developed through a unique and innovative partnership between the two organizations: the Foresters for theBirds project.  The tour will take place at the 255-acre Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington, Vermont where a timber harvest designed to improve timber and forest songbird habitat for species including wood thrush and black-throated blue warbler is underway. The tour is open to the public and press, and will run from 9:00 am to noon.  Space is limited; pre-registration is required.  Forest landowners, municipal volunteers and officials, foresters, and other natural resource professionals with an interest in applying similar practices on land they manage are especially encouraged to attend.  Featured highlights of the event will be meeting with the for...