A History of Connecticut's Forest

Join us for a virtual presentation about The History of Connecticut’s Forests on Tuesday, September 29th at 6 pm by Jeffrey S. Ward, PhD. Most of Connecticut appears as a sea of hills cloaked with a never-changing forest that is, in fact, quite dynamic. In Connecticut, as in many northeastern forests, we are at the beginning of a second major change in forest composition during the past 100 years. Since the loss of American chestnut in the early 1900s, the Connecticut forest has been dominated by oak. Today, our forest is gradually converting from oak to other species, especially maple, birch, and beech. As with the shift from chestnut to oak forests at the beginning of the century, the emergence of a forest dominated by northern hardwoods will alter the economic, ecological, and aesthetic values of our forest. The consequences of these changes will last well into the 21st century. Click here to register for this event: https://tinyurl.com/y2ny4vul