The draft recommendations of the Northern Forest Lands Council released in March were regional in scope, covering 26 million acres in four states. Implementation will be on a state-by-state basis. Vermont has about two million acres in the study area.
Brendan Whittaker, one of Vermont's four members of the Northern Forest Lands Council, and the Northern Forest Project Director for the Vermont Natural Resources Council, will give us his impressions about this subject in the September issue of Vermont Woodlands.