With: Peter Rhoades, Peter Renzelman, Jeff Putnam

Walk Fee: By donation/ registration required

Walk Size: 15 / Adults

Peter Rhoades will lead a walk though a forest that he has been tending for many years. He started active management of this woodlot in 1974, with the goal of always favoring the highest quality trees for future growth. White pine, hardwood, and hemlock forest types are all represented. We will be walking on a woods road. The walk is 3000 feet to the view at the top of a hill. The total distance is a little over a mile. Some of it is moderately steep. We will meet at 9:00 am. The location is 223 Thayer Brook Road. There is plenty of parking up the drive.

Peter Rhoades lives with his wife, Debbie, on land first purchased by his great grandfather in 1902. After obtaining Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Forest Management from the University of New Hampshire, he has spent nearly 50 years managing private woodlands and town forests in this region, as well as accumulating and managing woodlots of his own (and producing maple syrup).

Peter Renzelman was born and raised in Alstead. He developed an interest in forestry from an early age. He studied forestry at UNH Durham and has spent 50 years managing small privately owned woodlots in NH. Logging was the principal part of his business, and that meshed closely with working with property owners helping them to manage the forest for future timber growth.

Jeff Putnam received an Associates Degree in Forest Technology from the Thompson School of Applied Sciences at UNH. He has worked in the forest products industry for more than 40 years as a forest technician, logger and safety trainer. Jeff is currently employed as an assistant shop manager at Long View Forest Contracting Inc. of Hartland and Westminster VT.